Chinese, Boston, Indian, what next?

Just today I've been able to listen to multiple accents. My math teacher is Chinese, a UNH police officer with a strong Boston accent came into my freshmen seminar class to talk, and my biology lab TA is Indian. In this increasingly globalized world, with movies and music available at our fingertips from all around the world, we are hardly phased by this variety of language and culture. But I think that being able to hear all these types of language variation in one eight hour day in rural New Hampshire is pretty neat.
Compared to larger cities or towns near our country's borders, this part of the state does not have a large immigrant population or people who speak English as a second language. I think one of the advantages to attending a large university like this one is that we have the opportunity to learn about the languages and cultures of people from other countries. As a research university, people from India and China and other places come here to work; and undergrads like me get to experience their language. Instead of complaining about our teachers' strong accents and how hard it sometimes is to understand them, let's try to absorb as much as we can and soak it in!