A plea from an international student

I just can’t anymore with everything that’s going on.

It’s so late and I’m just in bed, crying, completely lost. I don’t even know what to do anymore. This is the worst I have been in 2 entire years.

All I want to do is to be able to continue studying in what I thought was my home. But this quarantine has been showing me my university cares as much about their students as a cat cares for the well being of the mice it’s about to eat.

I can’t do online classes even tho I’m high risk because US government. I can’t just sit this semester out or I lose my scholarship and my visa. My country is the list of those barred from entry so I have to do a 15 day detour to be able to reach the school.

It took them so long to give us any kind of news, and now we’re supposed to have everything planned in days. I can’t do this. I’m only 19; I’m still a teenager ffs. I can’t do all of this by myself.

Everytime I get everything organized and ready, there’s a different rule that they completely forgot to tell us about. And there I go back to square 0. This is the third time this happens this week.

My uni is going to lose so many students over this. I know this. They know this. And somehow they just don’t care. I’m starting to seriously consider transferring out, and that hurts me. That’s my home; how can I just leave my home?

If you actually made this far, I have a request. If you can, please stand up for your international kids. We need help. They don’t listen to us. They don’t care about us. But they listen to you.

Submitted July 11, 2020 at 09:54PM by Feyre_Rhys https://ift.tt/2DzWRV9