Yeah it never worked for me, either. Part of it was that at my school, almost to a man, grad students were literal Chicom plants. A one-way exchange program. It's hard to have a lot in common with those. The undergrads were American, and some of em did really well. I never really heard about those grad students again. Whatever they did, they took it back to China with them. And this was just taken for granted because the right people were getting paid.