Being an international student in a college in North America can have its pros and cons, could be great as well as a living hell. You will have to adapt to a new environment and learn the laws of the society and adapt to their culture. You may be the only person among your friends who moved there and will be arriving there knowing no one. You may have the feeling of loneliness and may get homesick. so how do you overcome this.
As an international student you do have many things that will interest people. Being from another country, people who have either gone there or who are interested in the country may easily get attracted to you. You have experiences from another culture to share with people and people are not insensitive to that.
Make sure that when you reach college, you attend all the preliminary events which are offered both for freshmen and for international students. Make sure you already have a phone and a social account like facebook. When you get there talk to as many people you can, the first days everyone is excited and will literally talk to anyone. Get the contacts of everyone you felt where interesting and make sure you give them calls from time to time to ask them to hang out. Doing this from every event will guarantee you having about 5 to 10 friends by the end of the first week. Remember most of the friends you make the first week remain your friends till you graduate.
Also if your a freshman, make sure your in a dorm room. Nothing easier than making friends from people in your dorm. Keep your dorm room open, it ensures people will pop by to say hi. It also shows that your warm with people. Take advantage of the international student office. Sometimes the people there are very warm and will help you meet others. Its also an avenue to meet other international students who like you want to make friends. With these little tricks you are sure to have a great time in college.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Schools back, What to do.
For those who are freshman in college, well school is just starting and many of you are excited. So what’s next. Class will probably start in a week’s time and you will now be going through all the welcome parties offered by school and students, meeting a lot of students, visiting and much more. So what should you do now that school is in.
First of all make sure of have signed up for all your classes and know what the classes are. Also get the textbooks way ahead the class starts. To save cost buy the book on classified sites such as craiglist or announceschool. That will be great for your school work and give you time to prepare for classes and to party during the welcome week.
Next, make sure you do a campus visit to start to get a sense of the campus. It will save you a whole lot of time when school starts.
Then meet people. During the first week, you’ll meet a lot of people many who will be your friends till the end of your 4 year course. That’s the period of the year when many people are open to friendship making. Make sure that the friends you do make, stay in contact with them, if not you will realize that after 1 month more than 60% of the people you met are now strangers to you.
Go dorm shopping or apartment shopping. Nothing better than having all your stuff together for the upcoming school year.
First of all make sure of have signed up for all your classes and know what the classes are. Also get the textbooks way ahead the class starts. To save cost buy the book on classified sites such as craiglist or announceschool. That will be great for your school work and give you time to prepare for classes and to party during the welcome week.
Next, make sure you do a campus visit to start to get a sense of the campus. It will save you a whole lot of time when school starts.
Then meet people. During the first week, you’ll meet a lot of people many who will be your friends till the end of your 4 year course. That’s the period of the year when many people are open to friendship making. Make sure that the friends you do make, stay in contact with them, if not you will realize that after 1 month more than 60% of the people you met are now strangers to you.
Go dorm shopping or apartment shopping. Nothing better than having all your stuff together for the upcoming school year.
AnnounceSchool now in Canada
AnnounceSchool, the online bulletin board for students just added a new country to its set of operations, Canada. 5 Canadian universities now have the services of AnnounceSchool. McGill, Bishop’s University, Universite de Sherbrooke, York, and UofT. This puts the count of universities using AnnounceSchool to 13.
AnnounceSchool allows students to post up ads, events, parties, sporting events, meetings and much more for free to allow all the other students in your school to check out what is happening in school. This makes it easier for students to be aware of what is going on in school and to be up to date. This also removes the use of notice boards, bulletin boards orkiosks and wasting papers.
AnnounceSchool also has a marketplace to allow students to post up listings for housing, books and items they have for sale and would wish to sell to their school mates. AnnounceSchool is an important student tool.
AnnounceSchool allows students to post up ads, events, parties, sporting events, meetings and much more for free to allow all the other students in your school to check out what is happening in school. This makes it easier for students to be aware of what is going on in school and to be up to date. This also removes the use of notice boards, bulletin boards orkiosks and wasting papers.
AnnounceSchool also has a marketplace to allow students to post up listings for housing, books and items they have for sale and would wish to sell to their school mates. AnnounceSchool is an important student tool.
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