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International students at MSU: Nyasha Mutumwa (Zimbabwe)

I'm Nyasha, I'm originally from Zimbabwe, from the capital city of Harare and my major is Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Resources. I like to hang out with my friends a lot, usually I'm in my dorm in the lobby area. We have a little lounge and it's very comfortable, so we always just hang out there. I also like to dance so I spend a lot of time break dancing as well and any other forms of dancing I'm interested in as well. My first year here I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do, but my mom wanted me to go into pre-pharmacy and actually I didn't know how I was going to tell her that I didn't want to do that anymore, because she was really sure I should do this . But then, after talking to some advisers, they told me just be "undecided" and then come to a point where you choose what you want to do. So during that period where I wasn't sure what I was here for I was pretty stressed out sometimes and was going to class for the sake of going to class, but I wasn't even sure what I was doing. That's when I discovered that talking to people that know what they're doing and are passionate about what they are doing career-wise, I was able to learn that they actually had difficulties in college themselves until they took the initiative to explore opportunities, dig in to what they like to do, find out more about what they like to do, even if it's not necessarily a major but it could link to another major that they actually like. So talking to people helped me a lot to calm myself down when I was stressed out and not knowing what I wanted to do.

Seeing as today is probably your first day on campus at MSU, I highly recommend that next year when you see new faces as well, and you know where you're sitting right now and you're kind of nervous, and next year you'll probably know what you're doing, I recommend that you help people that you see next year, and even along the semester. If you see someone that needs help, it's a good thing and it feels good afterwards when you help someone, and they appreciate that. One thing that I've learned and that I can definitely take away from Michigan State is being able to embrace diversity and being able to appreciate different cultures and being able to communicate with different cultures and have friends from different cultures. It's a great experience to be part of a big campus with so many different people and be able to take that away is something that's good, because when you go away and you move to a different place, you can easily transition, just from being able to appreciate the differences that you have with other people, instead of walking away and forming barriers so that you don't actually get a chance to form friendships with people.

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