Editor's Note

Dear Reader, In this issue, MK, CS, and AJBS profile eight international students caught in limbo. Among these students, no shared narrative emerges: Some become high-profile activists. Others feel ambivalent. One is set on returning to his home country. Another has dreamt of America since she was a child. Through beautiful storytelling, MK, CS, and AJBS bring you eye-to-eye with the students at the heart of the national headlines. Elsewhere, AS imagines an AI addict going a day without his beloved chatbot, while AA, CSB, and NG report live from the sudden, sprawling line outside of BerryLine. JPL profiles John M. Muresianu, an Adams affiliate who claims to possess the "Messiah gene," and MBF speaks to Jim MacArthur on the eve of his retirement. KHL closes us out with an endpaper on how a cross-country road trip gave her a new understanding of her mother. FMLove, YAK+MTB