ABSTRACT
This chapter explores international students' college experiences by answering the following questions: what pathways do international undergraduate students in a large public university utilize to navigate the institution and how do these international undergraduate students reconcile their existing identities in this new setting. Using the Multiple Dimensions of Identity Development model (MMDI) framework, it understands the interviewees' identity reconciliation process by analyzing their pathways for integration. MMDI first distinguishes between social identities and a personal identity, depicted as a 'core sense of self'. The chapter explores the reported selections of pathways, changes in their social identities, and how they reconciled their various identities. In general, the most common pathways were dormitories, joining student organizations or clubs and working on campus. For international students, the shift in contextual factors would trigger shifts in the saliency of the social identities of these students.
