This year, there were so many more incoming students, both undergraduates and graduates. For now though, they need all the help they can get.Ĭompared to this year, my class had very few international students, and I was one of the only students who wasn’t an athlete. Their experience hopefully won’t be much different. I started writing for the Chronicle, attended SPB’s Bingo Nights and made friends along the way. Everyone manages to find something for themselves eventually, just like I did. Of course, I’m not going to be there to hold my mentees’ hands throughout the entire year, but I don’t need to be. But it did give me the right motivation to welcome the new class and make sure no one would feel that alone. Don’t ask me how that happened, because I truly won’t be able to tell you. Somehow, somewhere over the past year, I grew up. I wasn’t on any of the sports teams, knew no one in the area and was so shy I could barely talk to myself in the mirror. I wasn’t crying myself to sleep every night. Please don’t misunderstand I wasn’t being tortured last year. This year, as the global partner student coordinator, I was the one in charge of the new lost puppies from all around the globe and I wanted to make sure their experience differed from mine. The day of my international student orientation - on what must’ve been the hottest day of that year - I spent my day in the Mount Carmel Auditorium with no air conditioning and a silent wish for a plane ticket back home. My Global Partner mentor walked me over to my dorm, Irmagarde Tator Hall, in pouring rain as we both cowered under a shared umbrella. I remember moving in a week before the start of the fall 2022 semester, three days before the rest of my class. I still ask that question multiple times per week. Quite literally wandering around, my metaphorical tail between my legs, asking myself why I thought it was a good idea to move across the ocean by myself. A year ago, I wrote my very first piece in the Chronicle about my first impressions as an international student.Ī year ago, I came to this school like a lost puppy.
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