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F-1 Options (On Campus, CPT, OPT)“Employment” is work performed in exchange for compensation. Compensation can include money, room and board, or other significant benefits. Before accepting any kind of employment, be sure it is allowed by the F-1 regulations. Note that the off-campus employment opportunities generally require you to have completed one academic year (three quarters) to be eligible to apply for authorization. Consult an ISS adviser with any questions related to F-1 status and employment.F-1 status allows the following five categories of employment:On-campus EmploymentCurricular Practical Training (CPT)Optional Practical Training (OPT)Severe Economic HardshipInternational OrganizationsOn-Campus EmploymentYour F-1 student status permits you to work on campus at the university that issued your I-20 while you are enrolled in a full course of study. Your UW I-20 is your proof of work eligibility for on-campus employment at UW only. You must maintain F-1 status to be eligible for this employment benefit; maintaining status means that you are a full-time registered student (except for approved exceptions) in good academic standing with a valid I-20.Definition of “On-Campus” EmploymentOn-campus employment includes:Employment for the UWExamples: teaching assistant, research assistant, library student worker, etc.Work performed in a campus location for a commercial firm providing direct services to studentsExample: University Bookstore branch in the HUB (but not on the Ave)Employment at an off-campus location which is educationally affiliated with the UW. The educational affiliation must be associated with your academic department's established curriculum or related to contractually funded projects at the post-graduate level, and be an integral part of your educational program. If you are not sure whether the employment opportunity would meet the definition of “on-campus” employment, please complete and submit the On Campus Employment Assessment Form to ISS to determine eligibility.ISS interprets this to mean that the employment itself must be an integral part of your established curriculum. If the work is related to a contractually funded project, it should be under the guidance of a UW professor affiliated with the off-campus location. This particular definition of on-campus employment is very rarely applied. Given the size of UW and its various connections with many local and national organizations, it can be challenging to determine if this definition is applicable. Please note that ISS advisers do not authorize on-campus employment. While ISS advisers can provide guidance/opinions, the final hiring decision is made by the employer.Time LimitsYou are allowed to work:part-time (20 hours per week or less) during your regular full-time quarters (quarter dates are set by the UW academic calendar and include finals week).full-time (more than 20 hours per week) between quarters.full-time (more than 20 hours per week) during your annual vacation quarter.Graduate students: if you have a teaching or research assistantship, this reaches the 20-hour-per-week limit to on-campus employment. If you have an opportunity for additional employment on campus, you must consult your primary ISS adviser about additional work authorization.Expiration of On-campus Employment EligibilityYour on-campus employment eligibility ends:When you graduate. It expires the last day of your final quarter (per UW calendar), even if your I-20 expiration date is in the future.If you transfer to another university; your work authorization expires on the day of your SEVIS record release date.If you violate your F-1 status.Work StudySome campus jobs are designated as “work study” positions. The job description might include a statement such as: “position open only to UW students who qualify for work study awards.” Work study awards are part of federal financial aid packages and are only available to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. As an F-1 student, generally you are not eligible for a work study position and should not apply.However, there are some cases where the term “work study” might be used in a more general sense and not necessarily refer to a financial aid award. You can contact the office that posted the job opening to confirm whether or not you must have a work study award to be eligible for the job.Finding a Campus JobSet up an account in the UW Career Center’s Husky Jobs. This database advertises both on-campus and off-campus jobs. Filter your search to only look for on-campus jobs. On-campus jobs are also advertised on flyers posted around campus—in elevators, office bulletin boards, etc.Your Responsibility: Know the RulesIt is your responsibility to research and understand your on-campus work eligibility. It is generally not the job of UW staff outside of ISS to thoroughly know the immigration regulations. It is possible you will be offered employment that you are not eligible to accept or for your employment eligibility to expire without your payroll coordinator notifying you. Be sure to review all information provided by ISS and consult ISS if you have any concerns or questionsSevere Economic HardshipOverview:If you are suffering a severe economic hardship due to unforeseen changes in your financial circumstances, you may apply to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for authorization to work off-campus.Examples of unforeseen circumstances:Loss of financial support or on-campus employmentSubstantial fluctuations in the value of currency or exchange rateInordinate increases in tuition and/or living costsUnexpected changes in the financial condition of your source of support, such a loss of a family businessExcessive medical billsThe employment authorization is granted by USCIS in increments of one year at a time.The authorization allows you to work for any employer up to 20 hours per week while you are registered full-time.It also allows you to work more than 20 hours per week during quarter breaks and your annual vacation quarter.This employment does not affect your eligibility for Optional Practical Training (OPT).Employment authorization is automatically terminated if you graduate, fail to maintain status, or transfer to another school.Eligibility:You must have been in F-1 status for one academic yearYou must be in good academic standingYou must document that on-campus employment opportunities are unavailable or insufficient to meet your financial needs.How to apply:Contact your adviser in International Student Services (ISS) to discuss your situation before you complete the required documentation. Your adviser will determine your eligibility and assist you in completing the application and submitting it to USCIS. Required documentation includes:Form I-765 (write (c)(3)(iii) in item 16)$410 fee (make your check or money order payable to U.S. Department of Homeland Security)Photocopy of Form I-20, with your ISS adviser’s recommendation for economic hardship employmentTwo passport style photosPhotocopy of I-94 card (front and back)A letter describing your financial difficulties and why on-campus employment opportunities are unavailable or insufficient; include supporting evidencePhotocopy of passport identification pagePhotocopy of visa pagePhotocopies of any previously-issued EAD cardsApplication processing times vary between two to four months. Do not begin working until you receive the Employment Authorization Document (EAD).

The stories behind completed (but unreleased) films are often more interesting than the movies themselves. Much has been written about Jerry Lewis’ ill-fated holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried (1972). Here are 5 other films that never saw the light of day for various reasons.The Hunt (2019)Director: Craig Zobel**Update** Universal Pictures ended up finally releasing The Hunt on March 13, 2020. It ended up taking in 9.5 million at the box office just as the pandemic was taking hold.Plot: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are -- or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted, Crystal, turns the tables on her pursuers.Universal Cancels ‘The Hunt’ ReleaseUniversal Pictures has canceled the release of its upcoming thriller “The Hunt.” The film was previously set to hit theaters Sept. 27.“While Universal Pictures had already paused the marketing campaign for The Hunt, after thoughtful consideration, the studio has decided to cancel our plans to release the film, ” a spokesperson for Universal said in a statement. “We stand by our filmmakers and will continue to distribute films in partnership with bold and visionary creators, like those associated with this satirical social thriller, but we understand that now is not the right time to release this film.”Insiders tell Variety that the studio came to the decision alongside “The Hunt” filmmakers. They also said it was a tough decision for the company, but studio leadership ultimately determined that the film could wait. [Variety]The Fantastic Four (1994)Director: Oley SassonePlot: When an experimental space voyage goes awry, four people are forever changed by cosmic rays: Reed Richards, inventor, and leader of the group gains the ability to stretch his body and takes the name Mr. Fantastic. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, gains the ability to turn invisible and create force fields becoming The Invisible Girl. Her little brother, Johnny Storm, becomes The Human Torch with the ability to control fire, including covering his own body with flame. The pilot Ben Grimm is turned into the super-strong, super-tough Thing. Together they become a team of super-heroes and use their unique powers to foil the evil plans of villains.The Strange Inside Story of the Legendarily Bad, Never-Released Fantastic Four Movie from 1994Its officially unreleased status puts it in rarified cinematic company—most films that are finished are distributed in some form. The most famous unseen disaster is surely Jerry Lewis's 1972 Holocaust comedy The Day the Clown Cried, which has been locked away in a vault by Lewis himself, never to be seen by anyone again if he can help it. The Fantastic Four was apparently so awful that it's not in a vault—the original negative was supposedly burned by the rights-holders. Could that mean it's actually worse than The Day the Clown Cried?Twenty years later, a more complete version of the The Fantastic Four story has slowly been pieced together by geek historians, and its much more complicated than the simple myth of a Fantastic Four movie that was so shitty it had to be literally killed with fire. [VICE]The Brave (1997)Director: Johnny DeppPlot: A mysterious stranger makes an intriguing offer to a man recently released from prison, providing him with an opportunity to help his family who have been struggling to make ends meet.The Brave ultimately plays like the world’s most depressing remake of Joe Versus The VolcanoIf you’ve never heard of The Brave, there’s good reason. Though it played Cannes and was released internationally, it’s never been released domestically, either theatrically or on DVD, which gives it a certain exotic, forbidden mystique. I was only able to secure a copy through the machinations of a MYOF operative who works at a nifty Los Angeles video store named Laser Blazer.It is human nature to want to seek out what is unavailable to us, even if the item in question is a beyond-bleak character study about an impoverished, alcoholic Native American ex-convict (Depp) who agrees to be tortured and killed on film in exchange for $15,000, to be given to his family following his death. The story sprang from an unlikely source: a 1991 novel by Gregory McDonald, best known as the man behind the long-running, lighthearted Fletch series. [AVClub]Frat House (1998)Directors: Andrew Gurland, Todd PhillipsFrat House is a documentary film exploring the darker side of fraternity life, largely filmed at Allentown, Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College; the majority of the film was shot in the house of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, whose charter was revoked in 2000 and reinstated in 2011. The opening fraternity, that drove the filmmakers out of the college and the town, is the Beta Chi fraternity on the State University of New York College at Oneonta campus in Oneonta New York. Beta Chi is an unrecognized fraternity in Oneonta, and was kicked off the Oneonta campus after reports of severe hazing. It continues to operate as a rogue, unrecognized chapter in the town to this day [Letterboxd]Frat House was commissioned by HBO, but never airedTodd Phillips, director of alpha-male comedies The Hangover , Old School and Road Trip, made the documentary Frat House in 1998. It was his second documentary, following 1993's Hated: GG Allin And The Murder Junkies - men behaving badly is his forte. Frat House is an ugly look at tribalism, abuse of power, machismo and other deplorable male traits. Phillips and co-director Andrew Gurland (who recently directed The Virginity Hit) spent a year infiltrating fraternities to make the film. Initially, we get to see some predictable jock partying (bong-smoking, naked ladies sitting on boys' faces) before the directors get to know members of New York's Beta Chi fraternity, which is lorded over by an unfathomable prick called Blossom.Frat House was commissioned by HBO but never aired. After it was screened at the Sundance Festival students involved in the film accused the directors of staging scenes and misleading them. Phillips and Gurland denied the allegations, claiming the kids were trying to get themselves off the hook, although Phillips did later admit--unapologetically--that some of the kids were drunk or stoned when they signed their release forms. [VICE]I Love You, Daddy (2017)Director: Louis C.K.Plot: TV producer Glen Topher is a divorced dad whose teenage daughter China is living with him during her senior year. Glen takes China to a Hollywood party where he meets his idol Leslie Goodwin, the auteur who inspired his career. During the evening, the gossip about Goodwin's preference for underage girls begins to look plausible to Glen when the older man shows an intense interest in China. And when Goodwin invites her to go to Paris with him, Glen has to start doing some serious parenting.Why Louis C.K.’s “I Love You, Daddy” Should Never Have Been Distributed in the First PlaceOn Friday morning, the film distributor The Orchard announced that it was canceling the release of Louis C.K.’s new movie, “I Love You, Daddy,” in light of a Times story, published on Thursday, in which five women described C.K.’s past sexual misconduct. (In a statement released after the Times story came out, C.K. acknowledged that the allegations are true.) The decision to cancel the release of the film is welcome; ”I Love You, Daddy”—which Louis C.K. directed, edited, wrote, and stars in—is a disgusting movie that should never have been acquired for distribution in the first place. [The New Yorker]

I've visited many of the startups and companies in San Francisco (I'll broaden it to include south of San Francisco too, down to Silicon Valley).Here's who I'd visit and why -- keep in mind if you even get to one of these folks, I'd be impressed, getting inside of these companies is tough work for someone who knows everyone.One thing, though, this is just a fun little post. I'm missing tons of cool companies, this isn't meant to be complete. Sorry if I'm missing yours. But that's what's nice about Quora: you can add on and make this list better than if I just posted this on my blog.1. Yammer and Techcrunch. (downtown San Francisco -- while visiting there also drop in on Techcrunch, since they are in the same building). Why? They lead the social-to-enterprise space.2. Box.net and Cloudera (Palo Alto, near one of the first Fry's, they are located next to each other). Box is a fast-growing enterprise player that's doubling about every year (now has five million customers) taking share away from Microsoft Sharepoint. Cloudera has some of the smartest big-data engineers on the planet (the folks who developed Hadoop are here).3. GoPro camera (in Half Moon Bay -- a block from my house and near the Ritz, which you should visit anyway). Why? Innovative startup that never took VC and built into a major world-wide brand.4. CarWoo. They have an interesting culture and way of decorating the walls, plus they understand the car selling industry better than anyone and you might discern some interesting details.5. CloudKick. Rackspace recently bought this Y Combinator company for its ability to make cloud computing better.6. IBM Almaden Research Center. You'll never get in here, but this is the best research campus I've ever visited and they are doing battery of the future stuff here that's pretty mind-blowing. The car batteries my kids will use might come out of this research.7. Automattic. The folks who make WordPress. Enough said. Of course they never are in their office, so maybe an office visit wouldn't be a good thing. But, if these two guys are there (Toni Schneider, CEO, and Matt Mullenweg, founder) then you are in for a real treat.8. Instagram. Or their competitor PicPlz. I like Instagram's story. Two guys started the company at a desk in DogPatch Labs (another place I'd visit -- right over Automattic's offices on Pier 38) and they got two million downloads in just a few months.9. Splunk. One of the best run companies I've seen. Great attitude and great focus on having fun while serving customers who use Splunk's tech to see patterns in big data.10. Facebook. Enough said. Doubt you can get in without having a friend there, but extra points if you eat lunch in their cafeteria. 10x extra points if you get a picture with Mark Zuckerberg.11. Kleiner Perkins, or really any VC on Sand Hill Road. They know where the future is going. How? Lots of entrepreneurs walk these steps and show it to them and ask them for cash.12. Stanford University. Palo Alto. My favorite is the automotive research they are doing. Extra points if you get them to take you around in the car that drives itself. But there are so many cool things to see and so many cool new companies forming on campus that we could spend a whole Quora answer on that.13. Hang out with these two guys and you'll see some mind-blowing stuff. Hey, we can all dream, can't we? That's MC Hammer and Ron Conway. MC showed Oprah around Silicon Valley and, well, Ron invested in most of it.14. Oh, come on, you do want to meet Adam D'Angelo, don't you? Co-founder of Quora. They are in Palo Alto.15. Twitter. San Francisco. Extra points if you go to dinner with one or both of these guys (co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone).16. SmugMug. Mountain View. My favorite company and that has nothing to do with the fact they gave me a camera strap and made me lunch one time. No. This is a great family-run business that is freaky passionate about photography.17. This isn't really a company, but Nasa in Mountain View is a huge employer in Silicon Valley and continues doing ground-breaking stuff. Here's the inside of their supersonic wind tunnel. Visiting there took me 40+ years of living nearby (you can see the tunnels from a lot of places in the valley) and was one of my favorite company tours of all time.18. Y Combinator. Mountain View. That's Paul Graham, founder, pointing to Digg's Kevin Rose (I'd visit him and his company too). Why visit? They are the center of the startup engine in Silicon Valley. I've been seeing some of the 40 companies they are launching next month and there are some freaky cool things coming.19. SimpleGeo has an SF office with a video link to their Boulder, CO headquarters. Here's co-founder Matt Galligan. You might see him walking around the office.20. OpenTable, San Francisco, has put a machine in a lot of restaurants in the world. Hearing how they did that and became one of the best ways to get a reservation is pretty useful for an entrepreneur.21. Flipboard, Palo Alto. One of the hottest companies in the valley, they won best iPad app of the year from Apple last year and were just on Oprah. They are working on a new release and no one is studying the publishing industry more than they are.22. Wolfram Alpha has a great fact engine and CEO Barak Berkowitz is a Silicon Valley veteran. Worked for Apple in the 80s. Has lots of stories to tell and can share with you some of the tips of building a world-wide brand and platform that he's learned.23. Foodspotting. Visit founder Alexa Andrzejewski and have her explain to you how the world of mobile, location, and food are all snapping together to make her company one of the world's hottest food influencers. Here she's hanging out with Foursquare's Dennis Crowley. Foursquare has an office in SF, but their headquarters is in NY.24. He's tough to find but visit Plug-n-Play's Sunnyvale office. Inside are hundreds of startups. Here's the guy who runs that, Saeed Amidi. He owns a few of Silicon Valley's top real estate, but he really loves helping startups.25. SoftTech VC. Palo Alto. Visit with Jeff Clavier, who has invested in many of the world's top startups and is a nice guy to boot.26. Path. San Francisco. Hear founder Dave Morin tell you about his startup and ask him why he thinks it's so important to limit your friend list to 50.27. Fraiche Yogurt in Palo Alto. Visit here for some great yogurt (it's one of Steve Jobs' favorite places) and meet Patama Gur, co-founder. She'll explain her role in developing Blippy and give you tips on how to make your customers passionate advocates.28. Industrial Light and Magic (the place that develops movies). Awesome place, lots of models and artifacts from the various movies developed here, but what's really awesome is the people and how freaking smart they are. Extra points if you get to watch a movie like I did with Guy Kawasaki in its theater.28b. Inside ILM is Charles Alleneck's wild office. Make sure you get to see it. He has little models EVERYWHERE!29. Bridgelux (a little ways from SF, in Livermore) but they are making lights of the future and have a great tour where you get to learn more about how chips that make light are made.30. You wanna go to Google. Have lunch there, it's the best food in a large company that I've had. Good luck getting anywhere else on campus, though, unless you have some friends.31. 500 Startups. Dave McClure is a hoot and knows more about Silicon Valley and where the bodies are buried than just about anyone. Plus, you do want to get funded, right?32. Seesmic. Fun startup that has pivoted more times than most. Plus, founder Loic Le Meur runs one of the top web conferences in the world, Le Web, and he knows EVERYONE in the valley, it seems.33. Salesforce. San Francisco. This company showed the world that you could store corporate data outside of its own firewall on, gulp, servers owned by someone else. Today Mark Benioff, seen here, has gotten the social religion and regularly admits he's bringing Facebook to enterprises with his new product, Chatter. That said, his company has a world-class foundation (I was in the hospital funded by it last night) and Benioff is a fun guy. Unfortunately he likes being in Hawaii more than meeting with you, so, this is about as close as you probably will get.34. Disqus. San Francisco. Here CEO Daniel Ha runs the service that runs my blog's comments. He has lots of experience helping publishers keep their communities rocking and rolling.35. Tiny Prints in Mountain View. They make tons of custom printed materials. My wife loves them and hearing their story of how they serve customers warms my heart. Here evangelist Rick Bucich shows off their wares.36. AirBnb. Their story of how they survived 1,000 days with very little revenue before their business started taking off is a great San Francisco story but these two guys Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia can get your entrepreneurial spirit soaring. If that doesn't help, they have a few boxes of cereal left from their low-cash-flow days.37. The consumer electronics expert in SF, Jeremy Toeman's Stage Two offices are always fun to visit. He has lots of startups milling around. Things like Boxee and Clicker, amongst others.UPDATE: I totally forgot about SRI International, the lab where the first mouse was developed. I visited there today and it's a magical place with lots of cool tech. Unfortunately very few people get tours.