One point of an international student renting an apartment in the US and taking a class over the Internet is that they're in the right time zone, and don't have

One point of an international student renting an apartment in the US and taking a class over the Internet is that they're in the right time zone, and don't have to stay up all night to attend classes and other sessions (with the known negative health effects of doing so, along with how to handle the fact that the rest of the family is sharing small living quarters that makes 2am classes a problem for the whole family).