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    Missing Your Loved Ones Over The Holidays? International Students Offer A Few Lessons

    For many people, this is the first year they'll spend the holidays and other milestones apart from family, due to COVID-19. That's something students studying in the U.S. from overseas know all about.
    by Brianna Scott Dec 19, 2020 4 minutes
    Girish Venkatesh with his family before he left India to study in Arizona. He is among the roughly 1 million international students at U.S. colleges and universities.

    The U.S. is nine months into the pandemic — and for some people, it's the first time they've gone without seeing their loved ones for months on end.

    Even with a vaccine rolling out, many families won't be able to gather for the holidays.

    That separation is something the more than 1 million international students studying in the U.S. this year are familiar with. If it was hard before for them to get home for visits, the coronavirus pandemic has made it even more difficult.

    To help cope with being away from home, they've created new support networks, immersed themselves in American culture and developed other techniques to help lessen the burden.

    Creating A New Community

    Katayoon Beshkardana,

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