Dear Umesh, Thanks for sharing your experience with us. It seems students in the present day America get opportunities to maintain a car worth US$ 3.500/- and live a life of luxury. The next generation which will come to study in USA would have a different life. You mention that when you took your first flight Google earth was not there. I am sure the generation will certainly have a different set of software. May be they will be able to smell the fragrance of the flower before they place an order. It is being experimented now.
Myself, I belong to a different generation. In the autumn of my life I have learnt to look to life from a different angle. I sailed from Bombay (nay Mumbai) to Genoa. It took 16 days. In my childhood not all houses had electricity. I grew up without radios, refrigerators, electrical fans, and air conditioners, running water or flush toilets. Also in those days, unknown to us were products like contact lenses, copying and fax machines, ballpoints, gas cylinders etc. At Jorhat, in my early schooldays, at dawn before the world woke up, a group of Harijan men and women employed by the municipality started their work by collecting night soil. They went from house to house to collect human excreta in a large tin then carry on the same to deposit it in a big tank, which was then pulled away by a tractor. Some of us would not like to remember that such professions existed in a free country like India. In those days we did not hear about CD, DVD, MP3, video, PIN, magnetrons, artificial kidneys, GSM, word processing, computers, Internet, e-mail, ATM, jet engines, satellites or hippies and yuppies. We never heard of mid-life crisis or the burnout syndrome or the LAT (living apart together) relation. We knew only about 33 RPM gramophone records of His Masters Voice. The dentist of my childhood used a foot driven machine to drill a tooth. In our young days when something happened in the town the main means of mass communication was a rickshaw fitted with a loudspeaker announcing the coming event, which was most of the time about screening of a new film. We may be the last generation who thought that one needs a man to have a baby. Artificial insemination and test tube babies were unheard of. No wonder that there is a generation gap. In spit of lacking all the modern amenities we went further exploring new frontiers. But we have survived. The same is the case with your generation. I am sure the generation before us - when they went abroad for their studies in 1920 had completely different type of experience. It is just how you look to life and what you make out of it. Wahid da ________________________________________ Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens umesh sharma Verzonden: dinsdag 14 augustus 2007 6:34 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [Assam] Amazing Indian student migration I heard of genius Assamese now 38 yearold now going to become President of SAP India - who initially went to Delhu Univ to to bachelors in Science in 1987 and there heard of SAT (US college entrannce exam) and worked hard and got an amazing 1580 out of max 1600 (that was pre-internet) and landed a full scholarship to MIT. Later went to Harvard Business School and then on to many ventures - and finally to SAP. At 38 he would be the top guy to head Indian venture and likely to come to US and get further growth in US I heard of GRE/GMAT only after going to Delhi. Even in 2002 when I wanted to by a GRE prep book there was none in the top bookstores in my hometown -- I prepared without one - relying on internet and www.grebible.com There were indeed a few gys from my hometown who had gone to US for higher studies - but none went straight from my hometown itself. I think it is merely a big city phenomena and not surprisingly some big city students look down on "small city mentality guys" -ofcourse a few of them from metros still don't eat and drink and lead amorous life like theire more modern US counterparts . Umesh umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Some might be interested in it --esp if they are not from Indian metros. I went with my roommate to pick up 3 Indian students from Dulles Intl Airport in his old $3500 car purchased recently.- all came in same flight Qatar Airways --all from Mumbai. About 1,000 students from Delhi about 2,000 from Mumbai come to US each year to study - mostly masters in engineering etc -- mostly paid from own pocket -- perhaps higher real estate prices helps finance an education beyond the reach of most India (though in smaller govt run colleges tuition is less ($28,000 per master's dgeree and earn enough to pay for stay mostly ) and some get teaching assistantship - which is too less to be attractive for US students. IIT, Chicago (Illinois Int. of Technology) has taken in 2,000 students from India each year - my roommates tell me. Two of them already were on lease (thru their classmates who had moved in our apartment complex last week) . I bet they must have already seen the complex thru Googlemap and sen their airplane flight thru Google Earth software. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=9451+Lee+Hwy,+Fairfax,+VA+22031,+USA&ie=UTF8&l l=38.867503,-77.269386&spn=0.003843,0.009956&t=h&z=17&om=1 This software wasn't there when I took my first plane flight (and also my first foreign trip) to come to US via Taiwan. Though I have been interacting with one Assamese girl who has just joined the univ here and is a juinor of one of my roommates after working in software engineering at TCS (Tata Consultancy Services - India's biggest IT company -- TCS has recruited 80 student's from Assam Engg College this year thru campus placement). She has benefited from this student network also here. More later. Umesh PS: On the other hand when I came to US I had never heard of anyone coming to US for higher studies - from my batch Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ ________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Try it now. Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ ________________________________________ For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good this month. _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
