Ever wonder what’s it like to come from another country to study at Juilliard and live in New York City? Three international students—a drama major from India and two music majors, from Russia and New Zealand—share their stories. By turns hilarious and inspiring, their observations will surprise you...and perhaps challenge your perspective on some of the things we take for granted.

	Shedding Inhibitions, the New York Way, by Mahira Kakkar "I was fairly confidant that nothing would faze me here, in my new home, for the next four years. It is not an overstatement to say that I have never been more wrong. ..."
	The Artist Is a Citizen of the World, by Konstantin Soukhovetski "Coming here was a double shock: first, of realizing that there wasn’t any shock, and second, realizing that students actually have to go to classes! ..."
	Strangely Positive People, These Americans!, by Rachel Johnston "Upon discovering that my accommodations for the next nine months were the lower bunk and right half of a desk in a room that would, in New Zealand, only qualify as a broom closet, I almost called the embassy. ..."