Dooyoung Choi, a student from Korea at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, doesn’t hang out or drink beers with many Americans, he says.
On weekends he typically relaxes by watching Korean television over the Internet at his apartment, where he lives with two Korean roommates. When he has work to do, Choi will often join other Koreans for day-long study sessions at the library. Many of his friends crack the first book at 9 a.m., he says, and won’t call it quits until midnight, except for breaks for food throughout the day.
“It’s a really gloomy, dark, international student life, I guess,” Choi says laughingly.