International Students, Part III: Life in the USA

This is the final episode of a 3-part series for international students. Previously, we invited experts to chat with us about student visas in Canada and the United States. Today, we sit down with Megan, who we met at a pilates event in Singapore. She is from Indonesia and moved to the US in 2018 to pursue an international education. Originally Megan attended Foothill College in Mountain View and later transferred to USC during COVID. If you've been curious about daily life for an international student in California, check out some of her hilarious stories from a check-cashing scam to learning to drive, the gap between American move-out norms (right after graduation) and Indonesian ones (marriage and kids), and why she tells incoming international students to leave their comfort zone instead of clustering with people from home.