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Join us tomorrow for coffee hour! Come alone and make new friends, or bring your class or lab mates with you!
Enjoy free coffee, tea, snacks and the company of staff, students and scholars from around the world. As always, everyone is welcome and no registration is necessary.
The event series is co-sponsored by the Office for International Students and Scholars, Division of Student Life and UD Dining Services.
Stuti Gupta from India
“My biggest shock here in the U.S. was the noises I hear in my apartment. I can hear the person above me walking around in the middle of the night and I hear people talking outside. Sometimes I think I hear people entering my apartment. In India, the buildings are made of cement, so you don’t hear anything. Even if someone is jumping on the floor above you, you don’t hear it. It took me a long time to adapt to this.
But besides this and missing my friends and spicy food, everything is really great here. My advisor is so flexible and supportive and people are very understanding of the transition international students are making, and they try to help out.”
Stuti Gupta, from Delhi, India, is pursuing a Masters in Leadership in Disability Services. She chose University of Delaware because of the field knowledge her program provides, instead of teaching only theory like the other programs she considered. Still in her first semester, Stuti looks forward to working with children and a local nonprofit organization later in the program, to expand her field experience. She really enjoys International Coffee Hour and Perkins Live on Friday evenings and has found the “Lil Bob” gym to be a great place to socialize in addition to working out. Stuti is this week’s #FriendofOISS.
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Every Friday, flu vaccine appointments are held for students at Student Health Services in Laurel Hall. The cost of the vaccine is $22 and can be billed to your health insurance or paid via student account. The vaccine activates your immune system to give you a head start against various strains of influenza, provides considerable protection to those around you who may or may not be able to get the vaccine, and also significantly reduces your risk of hospitalization if you do end up getting the flu. Visit
udel.edu/studenthealth to schedule your appointment.
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