Time Cultures on American Campus Introduction: For most international students, American campus life is full of challenges due to the process of intercultural adaptation. Once you enter a different culture, you will face differences from external aspects such as food, clothing and customs to internal ones such as values ​​and beliefs. And anyone coming to America for the first time will notice the American attitude towards time. Why do Americans never seem to have enough time and always stress time? This article will present some segments of my life on American University campus as an exchange student from China in order to explore the different values ​​of time in intercultural communication. A comparison based on these interesting experiences will help the reader to contextualize the issues to understand the particularities and differences between the values ​​of Western and Eastern times. Some time management guidelines will also be developed for the benefit of international students entering the American campus. First I would like to share my experience in making an appointment and attending a meeting with an American professor from my economics course. The professor I made an appointment with is an older gentleman from New York with a native speaker and fast speech. After taking two lectures, I decided to talk to the professor and tried to borrow the lecture2notes. The professor arranged the appointment as soon as he checked his diary and then set the exact time of the meeting. I was shocked by the professor's schedule, he even measured his time in minutes and included almost everything in his schedule! Unlike people in China, we rarely have a schedule and do not plan our work in such detail. If I want to meet a teacher in China, I can go ahead and never need to make an appointment because we don't have this behavior. Also, if I think the appointment is necessary and try to schedule a time with my teacher, however, the teacher cannot give me an exact time to meet. The only thing teachers can be sure of is a wider time window, ¡°you could come between 4pm and 6pm¡± they will give an answer like that. I think this larger time window can exist in many countries with a flexible and cyclical time value, because they don't want to plan the future as if making a schedule, and their attitude towards time is to adapt to it, not to manage it.