After having gone abroad in high school, I found the transition to college to be a breeze — moving 560 miles from home didn't seem particularly daunting after having lived thousands of miles away.

Primary schoolchildren must run a kilometre (0.621 miles), junior high school students 1.5km and senior high and college students 2km.

After school, he moved to Chennai, 130 kilometers, or 80 miles, away, where he went to college and got a B.A. in history.