International Student Interview Paper
Step into my shoes
The university of Nebraska Lincoln has a very long and fruitful history that ranges back to 1869 as a professional school with a very wide ranging student body from all over the world. With the total amount of students being enrolled at an all-time high there are people from all walks of life on our great campus. By observing and interviewing international student I tried to get a look into the life of one of these students. There are so many different issues that an international student would have to deal with on a typical day whether they are good or bad issues. For example, there is the most obvious issue the language barrier between the native born students and the foreign students and there are also the major cultural …show more content…
I spoke with a young man from Malaysia who seemed very reluctant to talk to me told me when he first arrived in America it was hard for him to understand and take in all of cultural differences not only in America but on the UNL campus its self. He said that the amount of freedom we had here was hard for him because he was always used to a authority figure telling him what do in his life and how to do it and this makes me think that this is why he was reluctant to talk to me at times. He did tell me something that would give me a good foundation for the rest of my paper. He said that all students foreign or not go through a stage where everything is extremely crazy, where you can’t find your classes or even to talk to people because you don’t know the language very well right off of the bat, so everything that a normal freshman would go through is 10 times …show more content…
All of these student have to deal with so much as they arrive and during the first few weeks of school like choosing classes and studying along with all of the other factors listed above. The article provides ways that students can deal with all of these different factors, and says that if any of these do occur your best option is to seek counseling. The articles first and foremost issue that is listed is about feeling homesick, almost all students feel homesick at some point of their college career and most are able to travel back for the weekend or the holidays but if you live in china for example which is 7,000 miles away from Nebraska it’s not going to be that
The university of Nebraska Lincoln has a very long and fruitful history that ranges back to 1869 as a professional school with a very wide ranging student body from all over the world. With the total amount of students being enrolled at an all-time high there are people from all walks of life on our great campus. By observing and interviewing international student I tried to get a look into the life of one of these students. There are so many different issues that an international student would have to deal with on a typical day whether they are good or bad issues. For example, there is the most obvious issue the language barrier between the native born students and the foreign students and there are also the major cultural …show more content…
I spoke with a young man from Malaysia who seemed very reluctant to talk to me told me when he first arrived in America it was hard for him to understand and take in all of cultural differences not only in America but on the UNL campus its self. He said that the amount of freedom we had here was hard for him because he was always used to a authority figure telling him what do in his life and how to do it and this makes me think that this is why he was reluctant to talk to me at times. He did tell me something that would give me a good foundation for the rest of my paper. He said that all students foreign or not go through a stage where everything is extremely crazy, where you can’t find your classes or even to talk to people because you don’t know the language very well right off of the bat, so everything that a normal freshman would go through is 10 times …show more content…
All of these student have to deal with so much as they arrive and during the first few weeks of school like choosing classes and studying along with all of the other factors listed above. The article provides ways that students can deal with all of these different factors, and says that if any of these do occur your best option is to seek counseling. The articles first and foremost issue that is listed is about feeling homesick, almost all students feel homesick at some point of their college career and most are able to travel back for the weekend or the holidays but if you live in china for example which is 7,000 miles away from Nebraska it’s not going to be that