As a new graduate student majored in chemistry, Brad is in the same research group with me. Recently, he had a conversation with two strange girls when they were waiting for bus. At that time, the two girls wanted to know the bus time. Brad gave them his bus schedule and then started the conversation. Brad used to shake hands when he introduce himself to another person. In his opinion, the expression "How do you do?" is too formal. Usually, he will choose one of the following expressions: "How are you?" "How is your day?" "How is going?". Similarly, he only stands up in a formal event when someone introduced him to others. Since Brad spent a lot of time taking bus, he prefered to communicate with strangers on the bus. Being a extrovert boy, Brad likes to find out some common points between him and others and strike up a conversation. I still remember how he started the conversation with me. When we met for the first time, Brad said happily," Hi, we have the same bag packet. So interesting!"

As for me, I will start a conversation with a stranger only if I have a good feeling about him/her. Actually, I had a recent conversation with a Chinese student at the Walmart. We just talked about our impression of State College.