I think i regret having my internship. What should i do?

collegemom3717
Thu, 08 Nov 2018 10:21:45 +0000

We see similar posts every semester from US students who have gone to study abroad, and I hear this regularly from ex-patriates who are on their first posting abroad.

It is common enough that many companies who are moving people to another country for the first time have prep sessions on how to handle it before they go.

Homesickness is real, but it is not forever (home is always home, of course! but the pain of homesickness diminishes).

However, to get past it you have to work at it. There is a lot of advice in the Study Abroad forum- start with this recent thread, which has some very good suggestions: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/21769628#Comment_21769628).

Moving to any new place is just hard; to a new country it’s even harder. But (as somebody with a lot of experience in this area!) you can do it. And the process of doing it- all the learning and growing you do- will stand to you your whole life.

One thing to know: there is a pretty predictable rhythm to adjusting to a new place, especially when moving to a country with a new / different language. I’m sure that the 3 month mark the HR person mentioned has to do with the hiring arrangement, but in fact 3 months is about when people who have moved to a new country suddenly realize that everyday life has gotten easier.