# I'm going to America 🇺🇲
###### tags: `CWL` `Design` `America`

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## Study Abroad
- What is Optional Practical Training(OPT)?
https://www.uscis.gov/opt
- Where should I be in the next 6 months?

>I will go back to Taiwan before August, 29th, for B99 gathering party. What’s my next step?
>
>**Stay in Taiwan**
>
> - <font color="#D2B55B">Health</font>
> - Find Tutors Jobs/ Part-time Job for surviving and paying my rents.
> - Developing our software.
> - Preparing GRE & Toefl.
>
> - <font color="#15B28C">How much time will I get if going back to Taiwan?</font>
> Open a personal website to demonstrate tutoring experience to find a job, teaching America school students or Europe School students.
> Present current projects' photos and details.
> Strength I wanna be good at is design thinking, and public English speaking.
>
> **Come back to Australia**
>
>- Save money for future use?!
>- Build connections. (high possibility without an actual product)
>- Scattered time slots for developing software, English tests preparation, and others…
>- <font color="#15B28C">How much time will I get if I'm in Australia?</font>
- How am I going to get that money?

> 銀行留學貸款
> 教育部留學貸款
> [參考文章](https://www.money101.com.tw/blog/%E7%95%99%E5%AD%B8%E8%B2%B8%E6%AC%BE-%E6%AF%94%E8%BC%83-%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2%E9%83%A8)
- What am I interesting in?

- What do I have?(Hard skill/ Soft skill/ Experience)
> No hard skill
> Soft skill: speaking/ team leading/ perseverance
- What Consciouswithlife needs?
> Resources: Money/ Customers/ Place to work/ Networking
- What do I wanna do in America?
> Broaden my networking.
> Finding decent partners.
> Let people know "Consciouswithlife" and "Kuang Kao".
- Why America not Taiwan?
> Size of market.
> Bius of stereotype.
- Why wanna make big money?
> Serve humanity.
- What kind of job I'm aiming for if Consciouswithlife has't had the resource to support me to live?
> Free Lance Designer
> Writer
> Speaker

- Is there any other possible ways to stay in America?
> - Sponsored Visa from accelerators?
> Tech Stars?
> YC?
> - Working Visa?

## School List

### US

|Priority|School|Location|System|Strengths|Weakness|
|:-----------------------------|:-----------------------------|:--------------:|:------------:|:-------------:|:--------:|
||UCLA|Los Angeles|Public|Top Psycho/CS/ML Program|Expensive Rent and Living Costs, Hard to get accepted|
|<font color="green">Done</font>|UC San Diego|San Diego|Public|Cheaper Tuition & Living Costs, Great Psycho/CS/ML Program|2.5 hrs drive to LA tech hub|
||UC Irvine|Irvine|Public|Cheaper Tuition & Living Costs, Great CS/ML Program|1-hr drive to LA tech hub|
|<font color="green">Done</font>|UC Davis|Davis|Public|Cheaper Tuition & Living Costs, Great Psycho, Good CS/ML Program|2.5 hrs drive to SF tech hub|
|<font color="green">Done</font>|University of Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh|Public|Cheaper Tuition & Living Costs, Great Psycho, Good CS/ML Program, In tech hub||
|<font color="green">Done</font>|UC Riverside|Riverside|Public|Cheaper Tuition & Living Costs, Good Psycho/CS/ML Program|2 hrs drive to LA tech hub|
||UC Santa Cruz|Santa Cruz|Public|Cheaper Tuition, Good CS/ML Program, 1-hr drive to Bay Area tech hub||
||University of San Francisco|San Francisco|Private|In Tech Hub, Good CS Program|Expensive Costs|
||CMU Silicon Valley|Bay Area|Private|In Tech Hub, Great CS Program|Expensive Tuition, Hard to Get Accepted|
||San Jose State University|Bay Area|Public|Cheaper Tuition, Good CS/ML Program, In Tech Hub||
||Santa Clara University|Bay Area|Private|In Tech Hub|Less Popular|
|<font color="green">Done</font>|USC|Los Angeles|Private|In Tech Hub, Top Psycho/CS Program|Hard to Get Accepted, Expensive Costs|
||Seattle - Northeastern University|Seattle|Private|In Tech Hub, Great CS Program|Expensive Costs|
||UW Tacoma|Tacoma|Public|Good CS Program|2 hrs drive to Seattle tech hub|

### Canada

## Programs

CMU
- Master of Integrated Innovation for Products & Services (MIIPS): https://www.cmu.edu/iii/degrees/miips/index.html
- Master of Science in Software Management (MSSM): https://www.cmu.edu/iii/degrees/mssm/index.html

MIT
- Media Arts & Sciences: https://www.media.mit.edu/graduate-program/apply/

San Diego
- visual arts: https://apply.grad.ucsd.edu/masters-programs/mfa#visual-arts-va75

UC Davis
- design: https://www.ucdavis.edu/graduate-programs/design
- psychology: https://www.ucdavis.edu/graduate-programs/psychology

University of Pittsburgh
- Graduate school of business: https://www.katz.business.pitt.edu/academics/executive-programs
- micro-credentials: https://www.katz.business.pitt.edu/academics/micro-credentials
- Film & Media Studies: https://www.filmstudies.pitt.edu/graduate/masters-certificate

UC Riverside
- Visual Art: https://gradsis.ucr.edu/gradsis/GSIS_GENERAL.DisplayProgramDetail?nProgramId=1400

USC
- The MFA Art Program: https://roski.usc.edu/academic/mfa-art-mfa-design
- The MFA Design Program: https://roski.usc.edu/academic/mfa-design

Toronto
- Applied Psychology & Human Development (APHD): https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/aphd/Home/index.html