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Cynthia Jennings, the direction of New Student Orientation Programs from Student Affairs spoke enthusiastically about the new program: “We want every student to have a successful transition into life at Columbia. ISOP will help our international students achieve that goal.”
Over the next four days, 75 students from 33 different countries will learn how to navigate Columbia’s frightfully complex bureaucracy, and explore their new city!
Spherical map via Wikimedia Commons
| Thursday | 9 AM – 6 PM | Move In |
| 1:30 PM | Shuttle departs from JFK | |
| 6:00 PM | Welcome Dinner and Social | |
| Friday | 8:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | Center for Student Advising Information Session | |
| 10:00 AM | Individual Advising Appointments | |
| 10:00 AM | Cell Phone and Banking Fair | |
| Noon | Lunch | |
| 1:30 PM | Bed, Bath, and Beyond Shuttle | |
| 1:30 PM | Tours of Campus and Morningside Heights | |
| 3:30 PM | Coney Island Outing | |
| Saturday | 8:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 10:00 AM | Session with Undergraduate Writing Program | |
| Noon | Lunch | |
| 1:15 PM | Broadway Outing-Hair | |
| 1:15 PM | NYC tours | |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner | |
| 8:30 PM | Night Events around the City | |
| Sunday | 10:00 AM | Understanding Campus Resources |
| 6:30 PM | Welcome Dinner to all International Students |
| Countries | Students |
| Australia | 2 |
| Brazil | 4 |
| Canada | 9 |
| China | 7 |
| Colombia | 1 |
| Ethiopia | 2 |
| France | 1 |
| Germany | 2 |
| Hong Kong | 3 |
| India | 11 |
| Ireland | 1 |
| Italy | 1 |
| Jamaica | 1 |
| Japan | 1 |
| Lebanon | 1 |
| Malaysia | 2 |
| Mexico | 2 |
| Mongolia | 1 |
| Morocco | 1 |
| Mozambique | 1 |
| Myanmar | 1 |
| Nepal | 1 |
| Netherlands | 1 |
| Nigeria | 2 |
| Pakistan | 1 |
| Philippines | 1 |
| Qatar | 2 |
| Singapore | 2 |
| South Korea | 3 |
| Spain | 2 |
| Tanzania | 1 |
| United Kingdom | 3 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 |
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@existentialist in crisis 7 people from china / ~1,000,000,000 inhabitants is 7 x 10^-7 %. Sometimes the scale of humanity frightens me.
@Anonymous they seriously count Canadians as international? come on.
@Analytically arriving at an answer... …to your rhetorical yet silly question:
-al | of or pertaining to
-nation- | nation, country, or people thereof
inter- | between or among
Given that Canada != U.S., I’d say that’s about right. They add to the school’s diversity, and I don’t see why a shared border should change that.
@Anonymous to clarify: != means “is not equivalent”
@Awesome I wish they did this when I was a freshman…!
@Anonymous i went to international orientation last year. I loved it….in fact i kind of felt sad when everyone came and we no longer had the campus to ourselves….without all the hustle and bustle. It was definitely optional and because there were so few of us….if i recall correctly about 50 ….i got to know everyone really well. Definitely would recommend it for future internationals….the only bad thing about it is that towards the end of NSOP you kind of really want orientation to finish because it feels like orientation has lasted forever.
@Next step is to make it an option to be an OL only for ISOP. Half the stress and twice the fun!
@Anonymous India Beat China. lol
@Anonymous That is the total enrollment of international students?Or are they allowed to choose whether to attend or not
@Claire There are quite a few more. The orientation program is optional.
@Anon 6:00 pm – welcome dinner and social (hold the social)