LATEST ARTICLES
READ THE LATEST FROM USTL PARTICIPANTS
Make friend with your roommates
Posted on: 25 January 2019 BY: EAmaral
Make friend with your roommate Before coming to U.S. I never live with people that I never meet before. When I fill the roommate form regarding my preferences on what time I would like to go to bed or how would I feel if my roommate bring her friend/boyfriend to our room and etc. I was a bit nervo…
The Gorgeous Season!
Posted on: 18 December 2018 BY: AMAMBARES
Hello there! Hope you all doing great with your fall semester! Oh…wait! I don’t have that season in my country. By my country, I mean Timor-Leste, but at least you can still see leaves dropping off from trees, can’t you? For those who are working to bring home the bacon or studying hard for th…
New year, many more to learn
Posted on: 29 November 2018 BY: SSagran
Freshman year was a year of adjustment into the college life. My primary focus was to be able to live independently and to get to know people around campus to make a life time connection. As the new year began and as I transitioned into the sophomore year I’ve become confident living independently…
Finding my true passion
Posted on: 31 October 2018 BY: GMayella
Thinking about the prospect of future career can be intimidating and confusing especially, when we must choose one out of equally interesting options. I think these emotions are quite reasonable because we realize that this important choice would lead us into completely different path in life, and s…
How the Clubs Have Benefited my College Life
Posted on: 31 October 2018 BY: ADa
I am going to talk about what spend my extra time doing during the past two years until that has affected my studies and lifestyle. First of all, it was a challenged to go out of my comfort zone. I joined Bible study since my freshmen year, this club was the beginning to how I join all other club…
My experience in Music
Posted on: 02 October 2018 BY: NDe
Natto Soares Me and the Music “Singing is like a celebration of Oxygen” this quote from Bjork a famous Icelandic singer describes everything about how passionate I am at Music and singing. I have been singing since I was very little and I got the inspiration from my beloved Dad who introduced m…
My Final Semester at Saint Michael’s College
Posted on: 23 September 2018 BY: MLiu
Marking my last year at this college which I called home for more than 3 years, I thought this might be my last opportunity to get fully involved and immerse myself into knowing more about things that I might be missing or improve what was not perfect. Even though my academic workload is high, it di…
Education is one of the important assets for a country
Posted on: 26 April 2018 BY: NDe
U.S has been greatly contributed to the development t of East Timor in so many different sectors included education for more than a decade now. Education is one of the important assets for a country that still under developing like East Timor. For the past years, there are many Timorese students inc…