This as-told-to essay is based on an interview with 27-year-old engineer Sunjana Ramana, who moved from New York City to London in February. The following has been edited for length and clarity. As a naive 22-year-old, living and working in America was my dream. I come from a middle-class household in Hyderabad, India. I was accepted to Columbia for a master's in electrical engineering, and I moved to New York in August 2021. I wanted to break into data science and engineering, and my focus was