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...choose a photo to represent themselves to their class—unlike the Harvard ID pic, which one can only hope isn’t too hideous—the occasional prison-quality mug-shot is all the more surprising. Sometimes it’s a cultural thing. Astha Thapa ’07 explains that “in Nepal, we aren’t allowed to smile for passport photos; I’ve been told I look like a terrorist in mine.” Other times, you simply get what you pay for?...
Though she’s enjoying her college experiment with American life, Thapa does not feel the need to completely conform with her peers...
...past year, Thapa says, the killing of political and military personnel in Kathmandu has been on the rise, bringing the violence out of the rural areas and close to her family in the city...
...Thapa is enrolled in University President Lawrence H. Summers’ freshman seminar on globalization, and hopes she can share a unique perspective coming from a more slowly globalizing country...
...Thapa believes her courses at Harvard and her broadening experiences living in the United States are vital to making her a valuable citizen of Nepal...