What is the best way to make friends in the USA?
You asked, we answered. You asked What is the best way to make friends in the USA? and we gathered short videos from institutions, students and our IDP counsellors giving their answers and opinions.
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Hi, there are many ways to meet friends at Iowa State University, a common thing that students do here is to join one of our over nine hundred clubs and organizations on campus. These clubs and organizations range from topics that relate directly to your major or other hobbies or interests that you have. You could join a club that sports related or again related to a hobby you might have, whether that's knitting, crocheting, cooking, you name it. There's even a skydiving club on campus. You can try new things.
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I am an international student from Malaysia majoring in athletics, and I think a really great way to make friends is to get involved on campus. You can join a student club or a student organization. And those are really great ways to meet people who have the same interest as you do. You would be able to talk to a lot of other students and make really great friends there.
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All right, so you're moving to a new country, how do you make friends? Well, the best way to make friends is to start from day one. You're going to be given the opportunity through a registration orientation week to interact with students at that time. Go ahead and start exchanging phone numbers, contact information, make plans, get involved in the student community. So, for example, at full, take advantage of the mentorship program and join the international student society, where you can interact with both international and domestic students.
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I guess my name is Jay from Barbados. It's a lot easier than you think to meet new people here in the US. Firstly, everyone in the US is very welcoming and they're very open to meeting new people of different cultures and stuff like that. Also on campus, there are a bunch of different ways you could get involved to meet new people like Greek life, their intermural murals, and they're a bunch of different clubs as well on campus, where you'd meet a lot of people with the same ideas as you.