Housing, employment, the increased stipend, health care—those of us who come from worlds that aren't so different from this one might not need those things so much. But I've also met people who come from completely foreign places with no concept of how to support themselves in the modern world.

[She had to introduce a friend to the concept of pizza. What a deprived soul.]

There are a lot of things that seem the same, but aren't, not quite. I'm from America, but definitely not this America. It might be the same with plants.