What do international students do after college ??

bluebubbles
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:38:17 +0000

This is reallyyyy killing me. I’ve been aware of the enormous hurdles that the immigration laws of the US pose, but I’m still going to try. I lived in the US for 6 years from when I was 11 to 17 years old. Those are probably the most formative years of your life. My family has moved all over the world before and after that period, so I absolutely FEEL like I am an American just because I was there for such a long time and a whole lot of other reasons that I won’t get into right now. I have German, Brazilian, and Swiss passports, yet I feel like a foreigner in these countries. It’s such a culture clash and no, I wouldn’t ever be 100% comfortable living in my “home country”, whichever that is, or in the UK.

I think I will try the academia route in law and urban relations, since I’ve always been sort of interested in it anyway. I will most likely go to Canada for undergrad and see where I go from there, probably US for grad school. Before that, I’d really like to pursue public law, and from what I’ve heard there are MASSIVE shortages for public government lawyers in the US.

To all students like me, don’t let a couple of negative reports get you down. Sure, our cause may be unrealistic but if it’s truly the “American dream” that you’re all going for, go ahead and be an example for that and make it happen. 1/1000 is still a chance.