eat
1. When eating, you should tip, which is generally 10%- 15% of the consumption amount. Fast food restaurants don't have to tip.
2. American meat doesn't bleed. Stewed meat needs to be heated with cold water to bleed hard.
3. Restaurants have unlimited refills. Fast food restaurants pay for cups. Please help yourself to a drink.
4. The most commonly used food apps are Yelp and Pinterest. Yelp is similar to the domestic public comment network, and sometimes restaurants will have discounts on Yelp, so remember to take a look at Yelp before going to any restaurant. Pinterest is a photo streaming website that provides all kinds of content, food and recipes. It is a good place to look at pictures and learn to cook.
As long as there are supermarkets around China, most of the food available in China can be bought, which is not much more expensive than that in China.
on one's pins
1. Houses in America are roughly divided into dormitories, apartments and residences.
Dormitory is a school dormitory, which generally has a common kitchen, living room and bathroom.
The apartment is a community. The general community provides Studio, 1B 1B to 4B4B (the first b refers to the bedroom and the second b refers to the bathroom). Studio is similar to 1B 1B, but a little cheaper than 1B 1B, including the bathroom and kitchen, except that the kitchen has no door separating the living room from the bedroom. 1B 1B to 4B4B, that is, one room and one living room to four rooms and two living rooms.
2. The toilet in the bathroom is called toilet. The bathroom at home is called bathroom. The bathroom outside is called the lounge.
3. All bathrooms have disposable toilet seat paper and toilet paper.
Some sockets are different from those in China. Remember to bring the converter.
line
1. Unless you live in new york, the car is the best way for you to travel. Everyone drives. As soon as it gets dark, there are almost no pedestrians on the road, so it is safer to drive.
2. Learn to drive and test your driver's license: American driver's license is divided into two parts: written test and road test.
You can just brush the rules for the written test yourself, and you can take it many times for free in many places. You can get the driver's manual from the DMV motor vehicle management department near your residence.
The road test part is a little more troublesome, and there will be an examiner sitting in the car to evaluate your driving.
About buying a car, poor students can buy used cars, and it is suggested to buy them from regular car dealers. Although the car dealership is more expensive than private pricing, it is still guaranteed, and you can print the car history for you. Automobile paperwork, automobile brand application, etc. It is also handled directly by them. Just wait for the official car brand to mail it at home, which is more worry-free.
No one comes to serve you at the gas station, so refuel yourself and pay the bill yourself. The gas station has a set of glass cleaning products. You can clean the glass when you refuel.
5. In new york and other cities with developed public transportation, students can get a bus card, and each subway station has a machine that automatically sells bus cards, which can be recharged directly and charged according to the distance; You can also buy a Zhou Ka or monthly card and take the bus and subway unlimited times in a week or a month. Keep the receipt after recharging.
6. If the bus card is lost, immediately ask the subway service window for a report of loss form and an envelope, fill it out according to the receipt received when recharging, and then find a mailbox to deliver it without affixing stamps. In about a month, the transportation system will refund the amount you lost to your credit card.
7. Every bus station has a bus route and a timetable for arriving at each station, so catching the bus according to the timetable is conducive to reasonable planning of time.
American buses don't have to stop at every stop. If you want to get off, pull the rope above the seat, and the front display of the cab will light up "Request for parking" and the driver will stop at the next stop. Therefore, you need to know your stop-loss point in advance.
9. Say hello to the driver when you get on the bus. When you get off, say thank you. Have a nice day with the driver. The driver will respond. This is a polite habit of Americans.
go shopping
1. In the United States, you must show your ID card, either a passport or a driver's license.
2. Use the school email to apply for Amazon prime. Amazon prime guarantees that it is very convenient to arrive in about two days, and the student account is free for half a year. When I first arrived in America, it was inconvenient to travel without a car. The most convenient thing is online shopping.
3. Fill in various addresses and e-mail registration cards in the mall. Because they will send you a discount card.
Most goods are taxed. Tax rates vary from state to state. The tax rate in new york City is 4%, and clothing under 100 USD is not taxed.
5. Except food, it's hard to see that it's made in the United States. The common ones are made in China, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Honduran.
6. Go to the supermarket if you want to buy low-end cosmetics, and go to the website or cosmetics store (Ulta and Sephora) for high-end cosmetics.
7. If you buy clothes in the mall, you can return them at will within the marked time limit, and the salesperson will not ask the reason for the return.
8. It's convenient to use a credit card. It can also help you establish your own good credit record and consumption record. The better your record, the better your mortgage and car loan will be.
clothes
1. It's not a big problem to buy clothes and shoes in the United States, and the price is relatively cabbage, so take less when you go abroad.
2. Girls must have evening dresses. Suggest buying at a discount. The same skirt has been put on the shelves for more than 100 yuan. It's ten dollars after the discount. As long as you don't change schools, you can't wear the same evening dress twice. Boys must have suits.
3. All kinds of suspender skirts. Most girls under thirty wear these.
No one washes clothes with soap, and no one cooks with monosodium glutamate.
Flip-flops are very popular in English. The English explanation is that it will make a flip-flop when you walk.
Work and study
1. Apply for a personal Gmail mailbox. Gmail is the most widely used mailbox in the United States, and emails sent by domestic mailboxes such as Yahoo, Sina, Netease and QQ are easily ignored by foreigners as spam.
Everyone in the class is actively competing to raise their hands to answer questions. If you can't raise your hand, you will be considered stupid.
Preview in advance, the teacher will not tell the examples in the book.
No one will lend you an assignment, only tell you what you think. Similarly, you shouldn't copy your homework to others.
5. Don't cheat. If you catch this, you will seriously drop out of school, and then you will be black for life. Don't do this.
6. In the first week of school, if you feel that your chosen course is not good, you should quickly find your own counselor to change it. Choose courses according to your own preferences and future development direction.
7. Facebook can effectively help you keep in touch with the classmates you see every day. Besides, it's a good place to help you remember names.
8.LinkedIn is equivalent to the job version of Facebook. Your profile page on LinkedIn is equivalent to your resume.
9. It is recommended that you prepare a paper or electronic calendar. As soon as the syllabus of each course comes out, various due dates will be marked down. Projects with high scores such as projects and papers must be focused. After the deadline numbers of all subject assignments, we need to estimate the time required for the assignments and set aside at least one week for the big assignments.
10. Consciously remember names. Foreigners pay special attention to names and often use their names when talking to them. Remembering their names is definitely the first step in social learning and getting along.
play
1. Before the start of the feature film, the movie theater usually shows the trailer of the recently released film for 10 to 15 minutes, so it can catch up with the opening of the film even if it is sometimes 10 minutes late.
2. In the subway, almost everyone is reading books with headphones, Kindle and paper books, or playing elimination games with mobile phones. You can also read a book.
In America, you must know football. Even if you don't, you should learn to stand up and scream when your school attacks, shout slogans together and dance with the songs of the band.
4. Many museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, do not need to buy tickets, but only set suggested fares. You can also donate money to buy tickets, as much as you want.
Some museums, zoos and botanical gardens will be free of tickets for one day in a week. If you are interested, you can know it in advance.
6. If you want to see Broadway plays in new york, you can queue up at TKTS ticket booth on 47th Street, and you can buy half-price tickets for musicals and plays that day. However, there are a lot of people waiting in line, so it is best to queue up 1 hour before the ticket is released, so as to grab tickets with better positions.