The Intimidating Experience of Moving to Berkeley

"I felt like I had no opportunity to kind of like get my feet wet, test the waters," she says. "The fact that it was all or nothing was kind of heightened by the fact that I didn't feel like I really had anyone to show me the way." She's always leveled up slowly with a more trusted partner who's been there to show her the way. 'It doesn't get any easier just by looking at it,' he once told her on a hike in Montana.