Mission Statement

This blog is created as a personal blog, basically sharing my interesting experiences at Rutgers or any other institution might be mentioned in the United States as an international student. The reason I want to do that is because as an internaional student from another side of the world, I do find some culture shocks when I come here for the first time. Sometimes, I experienced some problems but while other times, I had lots of fun with the culture differences as well. As a domestic student, who spends the most of timehere in the U.S., you might be curious about what do international students think about the life here. What does thing things you guys take as granted actually can shock some international students? Although, I am not able to represent for every international students, but we do have many experiences in common. In this case, I wantto share my experiences to others especially to the domestic students, help them have a more international angle of American education system and even the society in general. The another goal that I am trying to obtain is trying to build a bridge between the international students and domestic students here. From my observation, it is pretty common for international students to only stay with the other international kids from the same country while domestic kids also have their own friend-zone already. The two groups do not really interact with others probably has something to do with the language barrier or othersenses of the comfort zone. What I want to do is trying to provide a place for domestic students to get ideas of the international students, like actually many of us want to have fun with you guys but the main reason most of us choose not to do that is some people are afraid to get out of our comfort zones. We can also talk about something really interesting happened on us here in the United States  More importantly, we want to be your friend. The blog is going to talk about some challenges that I had experienced as a Chinese international student here. Each week, I am going to post a different challenge. The challenge could be anything from the food, home sick, culture and so on. The challenges would be conveyed in a bunch of stories, and I will share my thoughts, and you are definitely welcomed to make your comment wherever interest you, and what you want to say.