"In 2008 at 22 years old, I quit tennis and my world ended. I felt like a wounded soldier discharged from battle, someone who was suddenly stripped of her duty, given a new identity and asked to be happy, immediately..."
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"There’s the feeling that since you got into this school, you have your lives figured out and we don’t expect to go through any transformation, which is patently untrue – for me, at least. I changed a lot as a person and I’m not even done with freshman year."
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"I came into Princeton knowing that I wanted to be in the Near Eastern Studies department and knowing what I wanted to study and all of a sudden I realized this was not what I wanted to do anymore. I just felt really directionless and really scared like I had kind of almost wasted my time."
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"Admittedly, I was not doing well and because I had come from an educational environment where I flourished--I was very successful--without having to ask for help, here I was now in a situation where I had no idea how to ask for help."
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