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On-arrival thoughts & first impressions of Rutgers and New Jersey – Is this it?
By Noor Namutebi (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA). Driving from Newark Airport to my accommodation (Easton Avenue apartments) was surreal as 1. I was extremely sleep deprived 2. This was the first time I had ever stepped foot in the USA and it was, for lack of a better word, crazy. The drive was not entirely representative of what my university area would look like, as it was mostly the outskirts, but I got incredibly excited when every 10 minutes we would pass a well-known American food chain (like Olive Garden). New Brunswick Growing up in the hustle and bustle of London has skewed my ideas of…


