Two years’ experience of studying in United Stated is a priceless treasure for me. Studying abroad is a valuable challenge for us who are seeking success to work on. Generally there are two aspects which give me great impressions, the American style studying experience and communication among self, people and nations.

First of all, study is one of the top important elements for me in the two years’ lives, which also is my original impetus of going to the United States. The differences between American culture and Chinese culture prevented me to adapt to the American education system since I started my study in United States. The first and biggest problem is the language. Though I have learnt English for almost tem years, the knowledge about English I learnt in China is somehow useless in United States. I cannot understand what the American said and didn’t know how to express my opinion in English in the first several weeks. Fortunately, Ball State University offers several special English courses for foreign students who have English problems. Some of them are not too hard for Chinese students such as Grammar and Reading. In my opinion, all of these courses are valuable since it offers a chance to communicate with students from different countries and a shortcut to familiar with the English culture.

Generally, it will spend several months to beat the language problems. From then on, we can take some major courses or UCC courses. I major in computer science, and most of my major courses don’t emphasize the English skill, so I felt not too difficult to study major courses at the first. So in the first semester I took both some major courses and English courses. Some fundamental courses are not too hard for us, but it doesn’t mean that we don’t need to pay much attention on them; instead, try our best in all the major courses to become the one of the top students in the courses which is useful for us to get the chance to work with professors. One of the most important things I want to mention here is the honesty in American study culture. There is one time happened in my class in the first semester. Some of students cheated in their homework, they almost failed in this course or maybe even were expelled from the school. I think we should avoid such thing happened again as a Chinese student, otherwise it will diminish the reputation of all the Chinese people.

If we work hard and follow the direction of the instructors in the courses, most of Chinese students can get high grades in the courses. I got no worse than A- in all my majors course, so most of Chinese students did. Though we came from different universities in China, we have the same starting in United States. We should believe in ourselves, and always believe we are better than the American students.

Beside the study in courses, I’d like to spend my free time in the library. I think the best advantage of American education is its rich sources. I can find all the information from the library at BSU; if not, the librarian would help me to borrow the books from other universities. The environment of the library is very convenient for studying: big desk, free printing, free scanning, computer, video camera, comfort sofa and individual classroom. In my opinion, we shouldn’t satisfy the knowledge in the classes, most of the courses are designed for the average level American students which are not enough for the further studying. And also I think it is important to communicate with professors frequently. I got two projects from the professors from my department which are valuable experience for my future academic career. The last thing I need to mention is the importance of team work. The American education and the whole American society like and emphasize the ability of cooperation. We would have to work with different groups of people in our study in American.

Generally, studying aspect is not a big problem for me. I learn new knowledge and have a clear understanding of the future of my academic career.

The other big issue I need to face is how to satisfy the American culture in my daily life. I believe most of Chinese student had this problem. It can be divided as three levels. First of all, it is the intrapersonal education. For example, all the oversea students will experience the feel of lonely which is a dangerous status for us. We should learn how to live lonely and keep a good psychological environment. Don’t give ourselves too much pressure and never give up. Doing excises frequently are my method to reduce the feeling of lonely. Moreover, attending excises can help us to meet more friends, thereby further reducing the feeling of lonely.

Additionally, interpersonal communication is also very important for me. It is helpful for us to have a good relationship with other Chinese students. When we got in trouble, it is often that some Chinese students would come to help us. For example, the day before I left United Stated, I suffered a worse enteritis in my house. At that time, there is only myself here and it is almost 11:00 PM. It is my friend who leave far from my house took me to the hospital and take care with me for the whole night. I will never forget his help in my later life. Furthermore, it is a treasure for us to meet more Chinese students in United States. Even if I returned back to China or work in China, I had more chances to get success. Therefore, we should attend the Chinese student activities as more as possible. In there we can meet some new friends, exchange our experience in United States, and also get some free staff from here. For example we had to buy used furniture when we moved to a new house. Generally we buy them from the students who will leave school, if we have some good friends we can find some good condition and cheap furniture.

Finally, we need build a good relationship with the student form different countries. Through the communication with them, we can learn more new and specific knowledge. One of my friends who from Saudi Arabia told me that, He had a girlfriend he never saw before and he can have many wives in different cities. That is strange for me and I can never know if I just stay with Chinese students. Moreover, we need remember that we represent out country not ourselves in United States. What we do and what we say is what Chinese do and what Chinese say. There are three big events happened when I was in United States. The first one is one Korean-American killed 33 students in Virginia Tech. Most of people thought he was a Chinese at first, many American student in our campus became not friendly to us and sometimes shout to us. We cannot argue with them at that time, instead we should keep quiet and wait for the truth. Otherwise, it would cause a dangerous situation. Second, it is the Tibet issue, CNN, which is one of the biggest media companies in United States, lied on this issue so that misleading many American people. We should protect the reputation of our country by using a peaceful way. We had a small presentation in our campus to tell the truth of this issue. The last thing is the earthquake in Sichuan. Most American didn’t know too much about this event. We also make a small presentation in our campus to spread the information to all the students, and encourage them to donate for the refugee in this earthquake. I think, there three things better show our work in United States in these two years.

In conclusion, I learnt a lot in these two years and became more and more mature. I find my goal in my academic fields, and learn how to live by myself, and so on.