A Foreigner Feels Welcome

Introduction
I’ve had classes where I can literally have done absolutely nothing and I can still get by fine. I have classes where during the finals I’m in the library for like 72 hours straight and I eat there and I sleep there and life is really sad. As an international student I find that people here are very tolerant and accepting and you can basically get along with anyone and it’s not a big deal where you’re from or what your experiences are because somehow you draw similarities anyway, but I would say for the typical international student they mainly stick with the people that are from their country or from where they lived. So they don’t really have to make so much of an adjustment.

Campus Life and Social Life
Brown advertises diversity as one of their key points in terms of like Brown says it’s very diverse, Brown shows that we have all these different types of people and yet within the different groups people stick to themselves. So while there’s so many different types of people you don’t see all these people hanging out together. Because most economic classes I would say have an avg. about 20/30 people in them. Which is not huge, nothing compared to intro classes like a couple hundred, but not small enough for you to be really close to your professor. Econ is not really something you can sit and discuss with people. You know, you learn what you need to know. Pass/Fail is awesome. I fee like my entire Brown career has been trying to increase by GPA because I slacked a lot freshman year, so I don’t really do the pass/fail that much. I guess you can appreciate the subject a lot more and never realized that until this last semester. Academics
Thayer St.- it’s so interesting you don’t realize the diversity of people here, I’m sure you caught the bikers. You see families, you see homeless people sitting on the street. It’s actually, I would say a really, really safe street but you’re walking down and you’re just like where am I? This feels like an alternate universe. When I think about Thayer St. I guess this would be where we spend most of our time just because the weather here is not that great and we’re lazy. The weather in Providence is so frustrating- it’s almost Maine. And it’s so cold and it’s so gross and it’s such a drastic change from day to the next you never know what to expect.

Student Body
The party scene here is really whatever you want to make it to be. I’ve never had a night where I couldn’t find someone to go out with me. Like don’t expect to find anything crazy like a state school and you know like people drinking here like three days in a row is a big thing because it’s been three days and you’re still drunk hey! And that’s a little crazy, but it’s really not that wild but it’s fun. It’s a lot more relaxed. It’s really friendly and it’s really diverse in the sense that you could be someone who really enjoys bars and you’ll have a group of friends who can just go to a bar with you like on a random Tuesday night like just to hang out and sit and talk. Or you have people who really enjoys house parties and people who throw parties in their houses all the time and we used to have I guess my freshman year here there used to be a lot more Frat parties and that was pretty much something that happened pretty much regularly every weekend, but I think because of fire codes now, it’s not really popular. You can go out and be completely crazy and have a good time if you want to but if you wanted to stay home and do absolutely nothing with yourself like no one’s going to come knocking on your door. I do wish, however that before I came here I had actually talked to someone who went to Brown as opposed to just visited the campus, or spent a little more time just like getting a better grasp of the social scene or the people.