International student

International Students in America Travelling to a different place and experiencing different culture, language and traditions is a unique experience and everyone should try it. It gives you a better view of the world, enhancing your knowledge and widening our perspective. Keeping the same reason in mind, students go around the world to study in different countries to experience different culture and life styles. But, in this journey there are lot of obstacles or anti-intellectualism which…

Being an international student in America, I have experienced a lot. It has been stressful a lot of times. Staying away from home and focusing on the studies and work all at once can get very complicated in times. My early days in America were very hard. Things didn’t go the way I planned for and this led to frustration. I used to miss my home a lot and couldn’t focus in my studies. Even though I was very motivated to work hard to earn my degree, there were various things that took away my focus…

Annually a lot of international students have left their own countries for the sole purpose of seeking higher education in Universities abroad and with this the population of international students is increasing every time. Moving to another country is a major life transition that can have potentially detrimental effects on people’s mental health (Mallinckrodt & Leong, 1992). Hess (1994) postulated that, in most situations it is very common for people who face an unfamiliar culture that during…

Education plays a significant role for many students, that it determines their lives and future careers. The statistics prove that the number of international students studying overseas is remarkably escalating every year, in pursuit of exceptional education. As one of international students who came to the United States for higher education, a new environment, new friends, and the school thrilled me. I have always pictured myself spending leisure time reading a book under a humongous tree and…

Why International Students Should Make American Friends There are many students who prefer to study abroad more than studying in their country. Studying abroad is very helpful because it makes many students learn another language, so the best way to learn another language is living with people who speak this language. Also studying abroad can help people travel around the world and see many different cultures. There are many students from many different countries who come to Central Michigan…

goal of every nation. In 2012, 34 countries that were part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) sent their high school kids to sit down one morning to take a test. This test, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), is an international test that serves its purpose in comparing the nations’ education every three years. The punctilious results from the 2012 PISA echoed the same sentiment that the NCTQ report did. Among the 34 OECD countries, the…

pretty serious problem. So that a good vocabulary accumulation is that important to an international student that may potentially make his/her academic adjusting become smother. For the fourth challenge, other than language problems, it is about changing the attitude to adjust American school system. Knowing that Chinese school words in a very different way, same as teacher’s expectation of what is a good student. What teacher and the educational system value and what do colleges expect? In…

Introduction Many students around the world travel to study abroad as international students; however, traveling away for the first time may not be easy. Some students face difficulties such as adaptation and culture shocks because of the new environment just as food, weather, behaviors, language and culture. Students try to adapt to the new culture in different ways that take changeable periods of time depending on the student’s character. International students are more likely to suffer from…

A personal quality, if I can call it that, which has become obvious to me only in recent years, is that I am an International student. This does not mean that I am not capable of achieving the same things, if not more, as a student who is from this country. Come to think of it, I believe I am quite the achiever. I am an expert swimmer, winning the bronze medal in the 50 meter freestyle event. I am a green belt in karate. I act in theater. I practice mixed martial arts. I have varied work…

All these years I have been involved in opportunities that gave me an exceptional opportunity to excel and at the same time helped for partial financial aid. Some of these opportunities included the International Student Retention Scholarship (January 2015- January 2016), my part time job at the student sustainability center, an event planner for Portland State Programming Board. All of the above opportunities and achievements have always motivated to attain my goal. However, I feel pressured…