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When I was looking for jobs, I had two offers: one in Dallas, good pay, city life, all my friends. The other was in a tiny rural town you've never heard of, population 3,000, hours from anywhere. The rural job came with a loan forgiveness program. Work here for four years, and they pay off a...

I'm a junior at UH, and I started this part-time job just for the money, you know? I was a business major, planning to go into marketing, do the corporate thing. I found this work-study position at a small nonprofit that helps asylum seekers and refugees get settled in Houston. I thought, "okay...

I go to the University of St. Thomas in Houston, and explaining my college experience to people is always funny. "It's a small Catholic liberal arts school," I say. "And it's right in the middle of the Museum District, surrounded by the fourth-largest city in America." The combination is weird...