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下次讲一下OPT extension对大学外国生源的吸引，关系到保持科学技术的先进。

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Strongly SUPPORT to extend the OPT program for the STEM international students, I have the following reasons:

1. United States need more talented workers across the globe, international students with an extension OPT program can help on this to keep United States' companies more competitive.

2. International students actually do NOT take American workers' jobs. The STEM jobs are taken by international students is just that companies can't find a native candidate with the required expertise.

3. International students with an OPT program DO pay tax and even more, since they have to rent and live, they support civil economic development in United States.

4. Yes, a lot of international students obtain their OPT in order to get an H1B visa, and then they get their green cards, even join US as a citizen. All of those base on their hard and hard work, which is exactly the "American Dream" - "a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." (link)

5. United States was, is, and will always be an open-minded，just country. International students were, are and will keep making huge contributions to this country. According to the Partnership For New American Economy (link), "The cutting-edge, “American” firms of tomorrow — Google, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, Sun, Qualcomm — are all immigrant-founded", and "Fortune 500 companies founded by immigrants or children of immigrants employ more than 10 million people worldwide. Immigrant-founded Fortune 500 companies alone employ more than 3.6 million people, a figure equivalent to the entire population of Connecticut."

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Some People who oppose OPT STEM Extension proposal states that new international graduates do not need any practical training and are ready to work in industry. This statement is unfounded. I bet people who support these statements have never been to college and majored in STEM majors.

There is always a big gap between academic research/study and industrial work.  New graduates from STEM majors generally knows a little bit of everything in their discipline. The courses they took teach them the upper-level idea of how things work, and the projects they have done in university are simple and of small scales. When I was a student in Electrical Engineering, I was once assigned a project of designing a processor which can execute simple operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, small functions, etc. Though I learned the basic structure of the processor and successfully designed my own little processor, what I gained from this project is really limited and just scratches the surface of processor design. For example, the processor I designed only consists of thousands of logic gates. In real industry, the commercial processors consist of billions of logic gates. There are so much more for new graduates in STEM major to learn from industry to build a solid background, and be prepared for their career life. Giving the complexity of the work they are going to get involved in the future, one year’s OPT is not enough, and OPT STEM Extension is necessary for international students to REALLY understand what they have learned in university.

Without OPT STEM Extension, studying in the US will become a less and less appealing choice for international students. Who want to pay so much tuition money abroad to learn some purely theoretical stuff?





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A large portion of PhD students majoring in STEM areas are international students and they have made tremendous contribution in various research area. For example, in the ECE department of my university in Alabama, almost 80% of PhDs are from abroad. The academic publications written by international students occupy 80% of the total publications. Without OPT STEM extension, less and less international students would come to the US which is a big loss to America academic society. Considering the complexity of STEM majors, studying purely in the university is not enough for international students to build solid background for their future career, and OPT STEM extension offers international students the opportunities to fill the gap between school and real industry. Without OPT STEM extension, at least I personally would not choose US for graduate study.

I admit that canceling OPT STEM extension would offer more job opportunities to America-born students, in the short term. In the long run, as less and less talents come to study in the US, I don’t believe America would keep this fast trend of increasing its economy and developing its technology. At that time, who knows how many job openings would be there for American citizen students majoring in STEM areas. Sometimes, people just have to think what would happen in the future without OPT STEM extension.

The below story is quoted from the publication of NASA which is named “why explore space?”, and can be used to support my statement of supporting OPT STEM extension. In the short term, townspeople below would get more bread from the count by stop supporting the Strange Man, just like American citizens would get more job opportunities by canceling OPT extension for international students. In the long run, there may be no microscope invented for the townspeople and America.


About 400 years ago, there lived a count in a small town in Germany. He was one of the benign counts, and he gave a large part of his income to the poor in his town. This was much appreciated, because poverty was abundant during medieval times, and there were epidemics of the plague which ravaged the country frequently. One day, the count met a strange man. He had a workbench and little laboratory in his house, and he labored hard during the daytime so that he could afford a few hours every evening to work in his laboratory. He ground small lenses from pieces of glass; he mounted the lenses in tubes, and he used these gadgets to look at very small objects. The count was particularly fascinated by the tiny creatures that could be observed with the strong magnification, and which he had never seen before. He invited the man to move with his laboratory to the castle, to become a member of the count's household, and to devote henceforth all his time to the development and perfection of his optical gadgets as a special employee of the count.

The townspeople, however, became angry when they realized that the count was wasting his money, as they thought, on a stunt without purpose. "We are suffering from this plague," they said, "while he is paying that man for a useless hobby!" But the count remained firm. "I give you as much as I can afford," he said, "but I will also support this man and his work, because I know that someday something will come out of it!"

Indeed, something very good came out of this work, and also out of similar work done by others at other places: the microscope. It is well known that the microscope has contributed more than any other invention to the progress of medicine, and that the elimination of the plague and many other contagious diseases from most parts of the world is largely a result of studies which the microscope made possible.

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marcohit 发表于 2015-11-9 14:43
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Some People who oppose OPT STEM Extension proposal states that new international graduates d ...

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"The US began with the incoming of people from all over the world who devote all their hard work and talent to this free, no-bias land , and it is this never-stopped global mobility that allows a batch of talented STEM workers from outside of this nation to gather here and stoke the development of this super power.These STEM workers,including so many great minds like Einstein, come to US DO NOT intended to get from this nation BUT to give to. The US is a free land where they can freely relieve their passion for science and technology and most importantly it's a highly-advanced nation that values, needs and deserves their great achievement. I believe these STEM workers who have made a significant contribution to this nation he/she moved into just fulfill all the obligation of a citizen, even though they are not. So many STEM workers left for the US in early years and went back to their mother land at their 40s or older, just devoting the most vigorous and productive 10-20 years in their lives to this nation without asking for nothing from it. I fully support for the extension of OPT for potential STEM workers, which is inherit from the original open mind since the foundation of the US and will keep this nation benefited by this powerful global mobility of intelligence."

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  I'm a Chinese undergraduate who is planning to go to the United States for further study. I believe it's short-sighted and against the interests of American people to deprive international students' legal right to work in US after graduation. On the contrary, this regulation would better contribute to the success of United States, and bring benefits to American economy and employment.
    We all know that Information Technology consists of 10 percent of America's GDP. However, high-tech companies like Google and Microsoft are short of well-trained students to further develop their products. International students aren't in competition with American citizens ---- there are so limited American citizens studying STEM related majors, but the high-tech companies need much more people than the number of this group, and that's why they are willing to give high salaries to international students ---- they are qualified engineers which would contribute to the growth of the company. Suppose this regulation can't get passed, potential applicants would be discouraged, and as a result, the States would lose many elite students from top universities, which would greatly affect the economy.
    I truly understand citizens who oppose this regulation. But I think the States should put much more emphasis on illegal immigrants and companies that are abusing the OPT and H1B. They are really disturbing the market and stealing American people's jobs.
    American itself is a country with immigrants, from example, Satya Nadella is from India, Sergey Brin was born in Russia. Albert Einstein came from Germany. The boom, power and success of America have much to do with excellent STEM students.
    In conclusion, as a great country who are always open to talents, so the States should continue to open its arm to people with ability.

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