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Welcome message from the OISS director

Welcome to Michigan State University. My name is Peter Briggs and I serve as the Director in the Office for International Students and Scholars, also known as OISS. It's a privilege for our staff to serve you and help international students through whatever experiences that you have here. It's very normal for international students to go through ups and downs, confusions, fantastic personal growth, having new experience in the United States. Our staff is experienced in the issues that international students bring to us. We invite you to come to our office at any time we can be of assistance to you. It is our job to be your office, your home away from home. Some of the services that our office provides include immigration and visa advice for how you can study here, work here, bring your family here, do whatever it is that you need to do here. We provide special programming for orientations and other activities that will help you be successful here. We are the liaison with foreign embassies, sponsoring agencies, and things like that. We're part of the internationalization of the university. We try to set a campus climate that is welcoming to you.

As an outsider you will experience new things and both sides need to learn from each other and adjust to each other. We are very happy that you're here. Our website [www.oiss.isp.msu.edu] is comprehensive and we try to include everything that's there, including a calendar of events, and we invite you to visit the website at any time to get updates on what programs are. You're now part of the family of Spartans and we're glad you're here, so thank you very much for coming, we invite you to come to OISS any time we can assist you. Take care.

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