making contacts

Don’t leave the U.S. without compiling contact information for the friends, co-workers and instructors you built relationships with during your stay. Thanks to continual progress in technology and travel, this network of contacts could mutually benefit you in the future.

Touch base with your campus international student organization and ask them to include your name and contact information on their database and keep you posted on other students from your home country that have studied or plan to study at that or nearby colleges and universities.

Take advantage of the relationships you have built and the similarities you share with other international students and make it a point to stay in regular contact. Relationships tend to fade away if you don’t make an effort to maintain them. Who knows when you will travel back to the U.S. or if the people you came to know and love while studying in the U.S. might travel to your home country. The information could also come in handy if someone from your home country decides to study where you did. What an advantage it would afford him/her to have your contacts and know that friendly faces and helpful people would welcome and befriend them because of you.