“We help them get organized with books, banking, rooming and roommates, places to visit in Boston and health care,” says Strozek.
Zlatinova thinks these activities help international students start school better informed, which makes the adjustment to college life easier.
“In FIP, you might be totally lost, but there are another 60 people around you who are just as lost,” she says.
Pacurar says she opted not to attend FIP when she arrived at Harvard, but “just knowing that it exists...made me aware that at Harvard there are many international students, and both the administration and other international students are there to help me.”
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