<p>you need to also broaden your social network. You keep referring to your friends who are also internationals. Are you one of those international students who mostly socialize among international students, worse yet, mostly within the ethnic group you belong to - especially the Asian variety?</p>
<p>If your goal is to establish yourself here in USA, that’s the first thing you must escape from. For engineers, it’s not so bad. For any career in a non-technical field, this self imposed ethnic exile life style will get no nowhere. I have the feeling that if you had mingled with students and friends who are “local” and savvy about the way the system works here, you would not have been so clueless.</p>
<p>I have seen this mistake made by international students over and over again.</p>