A year ago, Fengxu Li says, the idea of talking to a stranger on Zoom about himself would have simply felt too nerve-wracking and intimidating.
He had only arrived in the United States in fall 2023. Shy by nature, he wasn’t confident in his English and was still emerging from a gloomy period.
Amazingly, amid his despondency, he’d decided to take advantage of an opportunity to transfer to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Sichuan University in his native China—despite never having previously visited the United States.
It’s worked out better than he could have hoped. Read the full story.