American Experience | 体验美国
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November 17, 2014 5:40 pm | By IntroAmerica
As an international student studying in the U.S., purchasing health insurance is mandatory, because colleges don’t want to cover the medical expense for you if you fall sick or have medical emergency. Some colleges have strict rules on which health insurances you are to purchase. In some cases, the college purchases the health insurance on…
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November 14, 2014 4:38 pm | By IntroAmerica
Writing excellent application essays is no easy thing. This article breaks down the essential elements needed to write a successful application essay. Some of the things you can expect out of this article are: what admission officers are looking for in an application essay, how to organize your personal experiences in a way that makes…
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November 4, 2014 4:14 pm | By Anita
John Tsang Chun-wah, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, recently spoke at Columbia University during his visit to the U.S. In his speech, he shared with students and job-seekers current job opportunities in Hong Kong. He said that Hong Kong welcomes ambitious professionals; especially those aspire to work in banking, finance and marketing sectors. Hong Kong…
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October 30, 2014 2:41 am | By Laura
Halloween is a holiday that occurs annually on October 31st. There are many traditions around Halloween some of which include, dressing up in costumes, carving pumpkins, visiting haunted houses, trick or treating and many other festivities. While at my time in college Halloween was always a huge celebration. It was a weekend event to dress…
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October 7, 2014 2:53 am | By Roger
For international students, living alone in a foreign country is not an easy thing. It might be easy to share with family happy experience, but when encounter difficulties, most people would choose to stand the difficulties alone. But parents after all are the people who care us the most, and given the distance we are…
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October 2, 2014 4:04 pm | By Jin
A lot of the world’s top ranked colleges are located in the United States. Schools like MIT and Stanford are many students’ dream places. For the Chinese students that are more into math and science at high school, Engineering is a very popular choice when picking a major. American schools would not only look at…
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September 25, 2014 8:08 pm | By Laura
What is Rosh Hashanah? Rosh Hashanah is the celebration of the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah will begin on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 and end on Friday September 26, 2014. All Jewish holidays begin the day before at sunset instead of at midnight. In the book of Genesis it states “And there was evening, and…
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