One year ago this September, Tamar Mankassarian, ArtSci ’12, arrived at Queen’s from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates with nothing but her bags, a laptop that would become her main link to her friends and family and a belly teeming with butterflies.
Afraid she would be left out and disoriented as an international student, Mankassarian soon realized most of her fellow first-years shared her apprehensions.Continue...