We are proud to launch the 2010 Travel Video Contest, our fifth year in a row!

Each year, the contest gets bigger and better, with more entries and more exposure, and this year will be no exception. The Grand Prize has been increased again to $4,000, and the winner also gets their own blog on InternationalStudent.com.

To enter, create a short movie (no longer than 5 minutes in length) telling us why you want to study or travel abroad. If you are already studying abroad, the movie can be about any trip you would like to take. You can get some ideas from our previous winners - but the more original and unique your video is, the more chance you have to win the $4,000 Grand Prize!

Visit our contest page for all the rules, and start planning your videos - deadline is 29 October 2010!

As many international students are starting to settle into their new college life, thoughts turn to how they will keep in touch with friends and family back home. Skype and other VOIP services do a great job when you are able to find an internet connection - but if you want the flexibility to call from your cell phone, dorm or house phone without fearing a huge telephone bill, check out InternationalCallingCard USA.

InternationalCallingCard USA provides an international calling solution that you can use from any phone and provides low cost calling rates to countries all around the world. What's more, we have a special offer available at the moment where you can sign up and get $25 of calling credit and only pay for $20! With InternationalCallingCard rates, $25 will keep you talking a long time . . .

For more information and to sign up online please visit http://www.internationalcallingcard.com/usa_calling_card/

Students all around the world are returning to campus, and international students are

arriving in the USA in record numbers. For those studying in a different country, the

process of settling in can be quite exciting but often disorienting. This month we bring

you articles talking about international students and the efforts some colleges make to

help them feel welcome and at home.

Bryn Mawr, a small, elite private school outside of Philadelphia, offering undergraduate programs for women and mixed-gender graduate programs, welcomes its most international class yet, with over 25% of the class of 2014 coming from outside the US:

http://news.brynmawr.edu/

An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses various colleges' attempts to

integrate international students into overall campus life:

http://chronicle.com/

And at UC Berkeley, international students are a welcome addition, for financial and other

reasons:

http://www.sfgate.com/