International student--help me?

tcbb
Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:54:24 +0000

^I’ll look at that more closely for sure. I’m sorry to rain on your parade but it’s notoriously hard to get jobs in US(well, permanent jobs if you’re thinking of paying off a substantial amount on your own, you’ll need one). Hell, even internships are hard because there’s a lot of red tape and unless you are truly exceptional and offer the companies something that the local population doesn’t, they’re not going to spend all the money on lawyers to fight for you.

my friend who’s in cornell right now, government scholar, close to 4.0 GPA at cornell, prior work experience back home, CANNOT find even a paid internship. there’s a thread in CC somewhere about job prospects for internationals with US college degrees in the US. Not pretty is all I can say.

Oh, I realise you might mean work while you’re studying? as a non-resident/citizen yu can work only about 20 hours? probably only on campus(i might be wrong. not sure about that). It’s more for expenses like food/bus fare than paying for tuition/board.