I was a kid from Texas, but I had spent nearly two years living in Moscow, off and on, by the time I graduated Middlebury College, degree in hand in the spring of 2011. Between the snow in Moscow and the snow in Vermont, I was tired of frost, and I felt like I’d been studying and interning and learning and achieving without cease since middle school. I was at a crossroads.

I knew what I wanted in...

I was a kid from Texas, but I had spent nearly two years living in Moscow, off and on, by the time I graduated Middlebury College, degree in hand in the spring of 2011. Between the snow in Moscow and the snow in Vermont, I was tired of frost, and I felt like I’d been studying and interning and learning and achieving without cease since middle school. I was at a crossroads.

I knew what I wanted in...