On Tuesday, November 27th I attended Global Engagement night. I have been attending these fairly regularly throughout the semester. On this particular night, the topic of discussion was International Education. A lot of the students that show up to these events are international students themselves so for a lot of the time we shared our experiences and listened to others share about their experiences studying in the US. As OSU is a very diverse campus with students from all kinds of backgrounds, learning about others’ experiences and how to interact with them is very important. I learned a lot about the process of studying internationally and about the experiences of others who’ve had opportunities to study in other countries and of students who came to OSU to study in the US. We also shared some funny stories about culture shock and acclimating to life in other countries.
As an IA student it’s important that I’m constantly exposing myself to new things and engaging with others in an effort to learn from their own experiences. I think that this event helped me in that regard and also gave me an opportunity to build new connections.