What's up!
I'm Nobu Momoi. I'm a sub-leader of the JSA Career Team. The mission of the Career Team is to help Japanese international students at SFSU find a job in Japanese companies in Japan as well as in the US based Japanese companies. We also help them get prepared for job hunting by holding various events.
Since I’m in the Career Team, I’d like to share with you folks the techniques that I acquired from the countless job recruiting professionals in the United States…. Well, I guess it’s going to be too boring, and I’m too lazy to write about it. Let’s not do it lol
Instead of writing about the dull stuff, I’ll write about typical international student’s (me) one day schedule, which those who will begin or just started to attend an American college are probably most interested.
I wake up at 6am every day. The first thing I do to start my day is to take a shower. After taking a shower, I check the messages from SFSU’s online learning site over a cup of coffee. I usually cook pretty heavy breakfast and eat quickly while checking emails and Facebook. I have a class at 11am, so I usually study at home before my class. Often times the thing I do in the morning are proofreading my essays and other assignments that include lots of calculations. I can do those homework better when I still have a fresh brain.
Since I live pretty close to school as other international students do, and I have a bike, I leave for school 7 minutes before my class. My morning class is English for multilingual students where I enjoy chatting with my classmates from all over the world. This class is my favorite in this semester. And communicating with the people from many different backgrounds is one of the most fun things you can experience in San Francisco. San Francisco has an extremely rich diversity, so you can meet with many different people by just staying at one city! You only need to know English to experience this because most people speak English!
After my English class, I often have some group meetings of my finance classes where we discuss homework assignments and group presentations. My other class starts at 7pm, so I stay in the library or other study rooms on campus to study. My evening class finishes around 9:30pm. After I come back home around 10pm, I review some of the class materials I just learned on the day and go to bed before midnight.
Did you get some ideas about how the life of international students is like? You probably thought being a college student in the US is tough. Yes, it is tough sometimes, but there is a lot of fun at the same time. And we can do this because of weekend parties! So if you’re hesitating to come to an American college, don’t! Just come and have fun! Maybe next time I’ll write about the weekend parties.
