If you feel a professor has given you an assignment which will involve a great deal of time and short notice on the deadline, speak up and negotiate a more suitable deadline. You may also be asked to perform administrative tasks such as cleaning out files, answering phones in the department office or setting up appointments for professors. If you will be performing an administrative function, it is likely that you will be asked to be on hand at scheduled times. Funding is probably not available from independent sponsoring organisations and there will be less likelihood of funding from universities because the students who have enrolled earlier in September will probably have depleted the department s budget. Fill in the forms basic information such as name, address, etc.
Students are eligible to work for up to twenty hours a week on campus.
This work would probably not pay very much and would not pay enough for your tuition and cost of living. Under the terms of the student visa, teaching assistantships and research assistantships do not fall under the category of work. Many Indian banks now offer loans at attractive interest rates to students for education abroad. Your parents may have to stand as a guarantor for the loan. For more information please contact your bank.