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The Bechtel International Center patio. (Photo: LINDA A. CICERO/Stanford News Service)
on December 10, 2020
“It’s been a year since I’ve been home,” Burcu Gulsah Alici ’23 said. “This was the best opportunity I could get.”
Alici is from Turkey, but she spent her fall quarter on Stanford’s campus due to uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, just weeks into the seven-week winter break that began on Nov. 21, international students like Alici face the unique decision of whether to return to their home countries and risk spreading the coronavirus, or to spend the holiday season on campus, away from home and family.