Future Innovator spotlight / Papua New Guinea sophomore treading new waters
Transitioning from high school to college can be challenging for anyone, but especially if the high school you went to was 8,000 miles away.Random Nisia, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Papua New Guinea, freely admits that his first year at South Dakota State University was tough, not so much from an academic standpoint – he had a 3.5 GPA – but from an emotional standpoint.”Being far from home and having to do everything independently was challenging.
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