Top 10 Things Only Study Abroad Students Can Relate
Venturing into a study abroad experience as a student can be intimidating. But have you ever wondered what happens after getting accepted to your dream universities and experiencing life in countries like UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand etc.? For these students, study abroad life becomes more of an emotional crisis with difficult situations than an enjoyable experience.
There is a lot to do besides getting a student visa and applying to get a good educational experience abroad. However, there are some things that only students studying abroad can understand.
For a starter, you need to know that moving abroad as a college freshman requires you to live on your own in a whole new environment.
That is why you need to learn these 10 things only a study abroad student can relate to in advance. This will help you a whole lot in churning out adversities in your favour and if not, then you would be dealing with it as a warrior.
Top 10 Things Only Study Abroad Students Can Relate
- Feeling Homesick on Traditional Holidays
- Struggling with Time Zone to Make Calls
- Feeling Relieved While Meeting Your Homeland Fellas
- Fear of Missing out on Local Slang and Cultural Jokes
- Uncertain Climate Being a Barrier to Your Study Abroad Climax
- Feeling Anxious and Lonely in a Foreign Land
- Managing Life Between College and Part-time Jobs
- Converting and Comparing
- Expenses to Home Currency
- Being Disappointed with Internship Eligibility Criteria
- Lack of Accommodations for International Students
Once you are leaving your home, out of your comfort zone, just know that you are on your own. Some students often forget to take note of these important factors. But you can make an exception and prepare in advance by bringing your majors to bear on the following problems that your classmates commonly encounter.
1. Feeling homesick during traditional holidays
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Without hesitation, no international student has ever disagreed with feeling homesick during traditional holidays. Traditional holidays, family reunions, and meeting and greeting loved ones and acquaintances during scheduled festivals are regrettable things about living abroad.
2. Having difficulty with time zone to make calls
Imagine you are studying at a university in any part of the world. You decide to call your family after your short lunch break. But no one picked up the phone and now you're upset. Then you come to publish the 12 hour time difference between the Home land and your study place time zones. And guess what, these time calculations are going to be a part and parcel of your life as a student abroad. No matter the country you are in.
3. Feeling Relieved While Meeting Your Homeland Fellas
If there is something that feels a little reliving in this whole studying abroad phase is meeting your keenness and kindness amongst foreigners. You would have so much to reminisce on about various festivals, cousins, places that feel at home, and whatnot.
4. Fear of missing out on local slang and cultural jokes
Another common factor that causes fear of missing out among international students is unfamiliarity with the local language and slang. Although not huge, there are still small language differences, even if you and your immigration country share English as your fluent or spoken language.
5. Unstable climate is an obstacle to your study abroad Highlight
If that is not enough, your first obstacle when experiencing a foreign culture and atmosphere will be the Climate change is uncertain. Having gotten used to the moderate changes in the weather in your country, it will take you some time to get used to the sudden changes in foreign weather.
6. Feeling anxious and lonely abroad
This is one of the things an international student may experience. Feelings of anxiety and loneliness among strangers will characterize you when nostalgia strikes. You wouldn't want to talk about homesickness and related things with people you're not related to. However, you need to accept your new surroundings and stop thinking too much.
7. Managing life between college and part-time work
When you start applying for college abroad and learn about the cost of living abroad, you will learn that Working part-time while studying abroad always goes hand in hand.
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At first, it may seem easier to juggle countless projects, assignments, and conferences while working part-time or interning. But in reality, managing both like a ninja sometimes becomes tiring.
8. Convert and compare costs in national currencies
Sometimes we get stuck evaluating whether the goods we pay for are worth their price. Especially when we explored the city that first year. However, for some students, comparing currencies with the Indian currency is just a pastime to find out how much they would pay for the same product back home.
9. Frustrated by Internship Eligibility Requirements
Finding the perfect job with a good salary is like your dream come true, unless you have to meet those pesky eligibility requirements. What if the job requires you to be a permanent resident of the country or have a work permit to hire you? These situations sometimes get so uncomfortable that you can sometimes joke about finding a potential life partner to get your dream job back home.
10. Lack of accommodation for international students
Guess why the issue of finding good accommodation is listed at the end? Because serious problems come last, like the villain at the climax. The difficulty in finding a suitable apartment close to your university can hardly be attested to just from your previous Indian students abroad. This is why many students like to book accommodation before flying abroad so they don't have to worry about being alone.
Conclusion
Although the disadvantages of living abroad as an international student mentioned in the above blog may seem a bit daunting. These issues will be much less worrisome if you are aware of them in advance and view them as a challenge posed to you during your study abroad experience.
