"I talked to my mother. My mom is not here,” said Georges Simo, who is transferring to University of Washington. “She's in France right now. She was calling every five seconds, texting [and] making sure everything was fine. Yeah, it was really hard [to go through that emotional moment]. I was like, 'Mom, don't worry.’ But I was worried myself. I wasn't sure if was even going to come out alive."