First week student life in U.S.

First week in U.S. will be a good experience. I have seen friends who will miss their parents a lot, to someone who is already set to enjoy a new life – half way around the world from native country.

It will usually take couple of days to get adjusted to new environment. It will be a very nice drive back home from Airport. You will see so many different types of cars( not more than 1 person will be in the car). Checkout the previous posts on How to avoid jetlag, that might come in handy. I sill remember on my first day evening when my roommate asked me to identify which is sugar and salt from a cup and from its appearance, I couldn’t, unless I taste it.

First important thing is to find a place to stay or you might have an apartment, so you will be busy looking for roommate. I’m sure seniors will help you out with shopping stuffs for your new home. The amazement after seeing Walmart, Tom Thumb, Kroger and shopping malls still lingers in me.

In some shopping center, bank will be located within the complex. I have seen people opening bank account within the shopping complex, like Tom Thumb, Albertson’s.

Making lots of friends will help you in long run and will give you different ideas. Since everyone will spend some 2-3 years in school and to understand how things work in specific situation, you need to talk to people.

For an instance, what if you want to withdraw from courses for a particular semester after you have paid the tuition fees, will you get refund or what can be done to get the fees back.. those kind of thing, you will learn only if you talk to seniors. Not all the seniors will have answer to it unless any of their friends have come across such situations.

Carry a small notepad, if you don’t have cell phone for first few days. Note down phone numbers of your friends and seniors. Visit their apartment and say hi to their roommates. Build a network. You will understand how to find a part time job, aid and many other things. Arrange for small party among new friends, so you will get to know more people. Smile at every other person you come across and get to know them. It will definitely make your life easier to have lot of friends.

I have had few of the readers ask about credit cards, how to find part time jobs, credit history, driving license, International Driving Permit. So, you can expect posts from above topics soon.

Till then cheers!

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