Suicide is the leading cause of death in young adults age 15-24. You will go through a grieving process over the loss of your previous cultural norms. This process involves denial, anger, bargaining, guilt, acceptance. The best advice to be had when things get very bad and begin spiraling downward is to get help. The college has a professional counselor and we've set up a support system of people whom you can call if you need assistance.
Creativity is highly valued and encouraged in the United States.
You may ask how to go about being creative. It involves dreaming big, breaking the rules, having courage to be yourself, looking for art and beauty in everything, learning to see and create the extraordinary from the ordinary, aiming high, starting small, and taking chances. But most of all practice, practice, practice and try, try, and try again. This approach will affect how you decide what major to go into and what your career goals are, so think about this carefully. International students may be a part of the ESOL program of the college.