Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Lessons for Future Scholars Part 1

Dear BEST students,

Welcome at the second lesson of FUNDAMENTAL of USA.
Today we will talk about:
- How to have a TV contract,
- How to obtain a SSN (Social security Number ),
- How to buy business cards at bargain price
- and finally I want to stress once again how to face a vast amount of commitments, like Micol has already told you in her last blog.


So let’s start with the


TV contract
First of all you have to know that the TV here in America is mainly broadcasted by cable. If You want to connect your TV you need to underwrite a contract with a TV company, the most famous is Comcast they provide you up to 300 channel for about 50 bucks per months. If you can’t face that expense I can suggest to you to buy an aerial called “rabbit” you can snap 6 or 7 channel, is not a lot but with 30 bucks you are ok for all the 6 months.

SSN
The social security number is something of absolutely essential, you can’t work without it!!
or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN).
If you are unable to obtain a Social Security number You will then need to obtain an ITIN from the Internal Revenue Service.
For more information about requesting your ITIN, please visit Individual
Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) website



Business Cards
Busness card are something of essential. In a few week You will meet so many people that you absolutely need to have some business card. I suggest to buy it in internet. 100 should be enough but to be sure buy 250, you can buy at less then 20 bucks.

Scheduling
If at the very beginning because of the NETWORKING approach, the course deadline, and public relation you fill the sensation to be unable to manage all that huge amount of data.
Don’t worry! You simply need a blackboard to write there all your commitments.




Hops this will help you guy
Abramo



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