Personal Narrative: My Story Of Penn

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Tell me your name and where you are from?

I’m Shiya Gupta .I’m from New Delhi India. I’m a current junior at Penn, studying psychology.
What are you studying?

I’m studying psychology and consumer behavior.
You are a junior or a senior?

I’m a senior
Tell me how did you end up coming to Penn?

It’s an interesting story actually, my cousins came to Penn, before I was-like when I was 10, or something, and they will keep coming back over summer always telling stories about how it was out here, and what not, at that point I didn’t really have a female reference. I always thought that I would go the UK that the US was always too far away for me and my family. So we didn’t even consider it. But, the older I got, I was like: “No the US looks great,

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