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Hofstra Hello: A Chat With an International Student

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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Hofstra chapter.

Name: Rokas Gustys

Age: 20

Hometown: Kaunas, Lithuania

What’s the biggest difference between America and Lithuania?

The food, the people, and the culture.

What is your least favorite thing about being in America?

Long distances from people back home.

You’ve been able to travel throughout the United States, where’s the best place you’ve been?

Hawaii

American girls or Lithuanian girls?

Lithuanian Girls.

What’s your favorite American food?

In and Out Burgers.

How often do you talk to your friends from back home?

Not very often, maybe one or twice in a couple weeks.

Would you ever consider staying in America?

If it’s an option, I would consider it.

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Coming from a small town in Connecticut, Hailey is a recent graduate of Hofstra University. She spent her time in school working as the Campus Correspondent for the Hofstra chapter of Her Campus where she led the chapter to a pink level status every semester she oversaw the chapter. She also served as the Personnel Director for Marconi Award Winning station WRHU-FM. While holding multiple positions at Hofstra, she was a communications intern at Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment, the company that oversees Barclays Center and Nassau Veteran's Memorial Coliseum. 
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Rachel is a senior at Hofstra University where she majors in journalism with minors in fine arts photography and creative writing. The Rochester, NY native is involved in several organizations on campus including the Hofstra chapters of Ed2010 and She's the First. She is also an RA in a freshman residence hall. Rachel has interned at College Lifestyles, Cosmopolitan, The Knot Magazine, and is now interning at Us Weekly. She hopes to someday fulfill her dreams of being an editor at a magazine. Until then, she is a dreamer, a wanderlust and a lover of haikus. Follow her on Twitter for silly and sarcastic tidbits @rcrocetti!