# @ucsantabarbara on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdZPfqSlzsj
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70608859-ucsantabarbara-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-17T16:04:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) — https://gondola.cc/ucsantabarbara

## Caption

How are globe-trotting and attending #UCSB analogous? For Arjun Malaviya, it's about the same spirit of exploration while learning about different perspectives 📚🌎 The computer engineering student spent 13 months traveling solo through 100 countries, buying budget plane tickets, staying in hostels, relying on public transit and eating street food. 

As he spent time in communities facing hardship, Malaviya began asking himself: How can I better understand this? How can I help? Despite differences in language, religion and politics, the conversations often circled back to the same core concerns: family, stability, work, opportunity and dignity. The more he traveled, the more his belief solidified: people are more similar than different. 

Read the full story of his travels and more in the new issue of UC Santa Barbara Magazine at the link in our bio 📖 ✈️

#UCSantaBarbara #Travel #CollegeLife 

Image descriptions: 
1. Student Arjun Malaviya next to a globe. 
2. Malaviya with a group of men smiling in Iraq. 
3. Malaviya with children (above) and a chef sharing a large bowl of food in Syria (below).

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ucsb, ucsantabarbara, travel, collegelife

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