The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/international-students/)
The life of an international Cornellian is rewarding yet challenging, especially during an ongoing pandemic. Some international students share their pandemic summer plans, both in Ithaca and abroad.
We need to do something to figure out a way to help international students, and the establishment of an International Student Committee is a good starting point. How can Cornell be a place espousing the beliefs of “any person any study” when we do not do our best to make sure that any person can truly get that any study?
International students at Cornell face unique challenges, especially during the pandemic, but the University’s diversity of students makes the campus feel special to these students.
Differing vaccine rollouts across countries have been creating difficulties for Cornell’s international students from delays in receiving FDA-approved doses to ongoing travel restrictions.
As Cornellians prepare for a fully in-person semester, some international students say they are struggling to meet the University’s requirement for students to receive an FDA-approved vaccine before arriving on campus this August.
For many international students, going home this semester means planning out a web of flights, navigating ambiguous travel and vaccination requirements and having to quarantine all over again.
Voicing frustration with resources that some feel are insufficient after a year of canceled research, funding tribulations and changed plans, graduate students are demanding more.
After recently returning to campus, popular Cornell Youtuber Katie Tracy reflects on studying remotely –– and in a different country –– last semester.
As many students complain of Zoom fatigue during Cornell’s third hybrid semester, international students have taken on the most hectic schedules, taking lectures and exams nocturnally.
From the Syracuse Hancock International Airport to the Vancouver International Airport, two international freshmen embarked on a dizzying journey between cities to get home before Thanksgiving.