College is a big family for everyone who just leaves home. For them, leaving their families are very good for them who want to start a new life and they can do everything without controlling. When you start a new life, you must adopt to it. Dormitory is a new beginning for many people, so you must know how to make friends with people who live with you.…
With the development of globalization, higher education plays an increasingly important role in a country’s development. So more and more students, in order to get the better education choose to study abroad. Many people envy the students who can study in foreign country to get the advanced education. However, it is difficult to imagine the pressure of international students when they are studying abroad. Students’ pressure comes from different aspects, but three of the most important pressures including emotion, culture and study. It means international students will face emotional loneliness, culture shock and the burdensome learning task.…
This paper discusses research undusted on how international students adapt to a new study circumstance, and what area they are not satisfied within the new country. 78 students from the result of this report , we found that most international students have culture shock, have difficulties with an imitating academic conventions, government treats.…
Nowadays, most students study at university after graduating from high school. Due to the distance between their hometowns and colleges, a few students live with their family while many others live far away from home. These two types of living have some different influences on students in terms of living condition, financial problems and independence.…
Making the transition from home to a university is a very a challenging step in a person’s life. It is the first time one is actually on their own without the support of parents and family. Decision making that would usually be made for a child by their parents is now in the hands of the student. Going away to a university will enable the student to mature mentally, produces life changing experiences, and gives them an opportunity to gain friendships that will last a lifetime.…
Studying Abroad has become increasingly popular amongst college students - and for good reason. Studying in a different country can not only help students achieve more in their adult lives, but ultimately change their life for the better from the experience. Adaptation and tolerance is one benefit a student can gain from studying abroad. By living first hand in a unfamiliar place in allows you to learn empathy and understanding from those different from you. Independence and Confidence are traits commonly reported from students who have lived this experience. Typically a student will travel alone of with a few other friends, being put into new, sometimes scary situations that will for them to think differently then they may have before. By encountering these differences they are allowed to better understand not only the challenges other countries are put in, but the challenges of our own country and the world as a whole. The Study Aboard experience has also been reported to be helpful for students with their careers, finding jobs and marketing themselves better to potential employers. The approach of traveling to countries in far corners of the world means students can compare the culture and lifestyles of people in very diverse places - and come to understand what makes us all unique, but how truly similar people around the world are.…
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…
Becoming a foreign student is a very important and arduous experience in a person’s life. At the same time it is an experience that will change a person's lifestyle and personality forever. When I became a foreign student, many things changed or had to change. Being a foreign student you are going to miss your country so much, you have to get acquainted with the new environment, and you must be independent. The purpose of this essay is to discuss this three main effects of being a foreign student.…
“The changes to new students’ routines, diets, social milieu, geographical setting, and perceived demands can induce intense homesickness.”…
Due to the cultural differences, most international students feel shocked. They leave home and parental care, studying in an unfamiliar country. Rajapaksa and Dundes (2000) discovered that international students felt more lonely and homesick than domestic students. “Their adjustment was affected by their satisfaction with social networks as opposed to the number of close friends.” (Andrade, 2006). In this case, international students may feel difficult to achieve the targets.…
The greatest blessing for students away from home is the independence in hostel life. No-body is there to question them whether they go to bed late at night or get up late in the mornings. Everone is a master of his own, in spite of strict rules and regulations of the hostel. Those who love freedom, like hostel life very much. Even during vacations, such students do not wish to visit their homes. Further there is no elder to check the activities. The student does not have to live as other members of the family live and he is required to adjust on so many occasions. He is to keep in mind the convenience of others and may have to study in spite of presence of guests at home.…
One of the first major, typical differences between living in a dorm or living at home is that a social life. Living in a dorm will give students more opportunities for them to meet, interact, and talk with students from other majors or other classes. One example of this is when they have difficult assignments, they can discuss with their roommates or professors about a solution or problems. Study groups can meet more easily. Researchers have shown that students who live on campus have a cumulative GPAs which are 5% higher than others student who live off campus. In addition, living in a dorm will allow student to establish more lasting friendships. However, when student live at home, they cannot ask their mom or dad because their parents do not study their major, or they do not have the same way of thinking with them. Students who live at home do not have the same sense of independence or freedom as students who live away from their parents. Nothing is better than they are the one who are suffering and experiencing the predicament by themselves, even though their parents will probably teach them how to survive in the world, live with the dilemma, treat people, and resolve problems.…
The life in a hostel is different from that of the home. At home, sometimes it becomes different to frame suitable timetable of studies. There may be relatives or guests visiting frequently and making the atmosphere of home quite unfit for serious studies. In such situation hostel-life seems to be boon for a student. Far from his/her home, he/she finds all facilities that are essential for sound studies in a hostel. Hence, hostel life is welcomed by most of the students.…
“Discipline” comes from the Latin word”disciplina” which means instruction. In most general sense discipline refers to giving systematic instructions but in real life, discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Discipline directs work, making it fruitful and excellent…
It is not a secret that student life is the best part of life. In this period of time students start their own life. All of them have the right to make their own decisions. At this period a student has to learn a lot of information from the books and other sources of info. It means that he or she should decide and determine main points in the life. Initially, the student becomes a person with his or her own way of looking at things. Student life is very useful because it prepares students for the real life. It means that student life is a life of learning. For the first time a person, either a girl or a boy prepares for the difficulties in the life. The atmosphere of this life is hardened. This life learns good manners and morality. In this period of time students form their world outlook. In fact in my view students should learn discipline, Good manners and he or she should take part in extracurricular activities like involving in politics.…