The summer before my junior year, I signed up to study abroad for four months in London. I'd heard the cliché that people study abroad to "find themselves," but I had a different goal in mind. As a lifelong proponent of close friends and tight circles, I saw this as my opportunity to step outside my comfort zone and meet new people, whether that was in my Shakespeare class or at random cafés around the city. I'd lived in the Midwestern suburbs my whole life before moving to Syracuse (a place