"The community of international students from China is very intimate. We are all going through the same struggles at the same time. We come together to talk about our problems and solve them together. Most of the time, the advice of the international upperclassmen is more useful to me than upperclassmen from the US. They've gone through what I am."
              "If you could give one piece of advice to a potential international student, what would you say?"
"Something I was told before I left: 'Be prepared to be unprepared.'"