"The fact is, we do all change so much in the course of living. I feel and I think that anyone who's lived long enough will be stupefied by that. And so to think that the person, that young woman who was studying here [at Barnard] then became this person today — these transformations are things to marvel at, but it is the act of living, after all, [that tells us that] we change, we grow, we transform." Visit the link in our bio for our full conversation with the director of the Barnard creative writing program, Jhumpa Lahiri '89. #barnard #barnardcollege #barnardalum #barnardalumnae #jhumpalahiri #columbia #columbiauniversity