Dollar ($) Dream$

DOLLAR ($) DREAM$ - Does this term sound familiar ? It has to be if you are from the land of pearls. every second person you meet in a engineering college and u ask them about their plans for the future, you get "MS in US of A" as your answer.

By way of aside, is there some kind of strange affinity between Hyderabad and the US of A? I would say YES. 66% of all Indians who move to the States are from Andhra Pradesh (got it frm a site :D)-- a startling figure, and one that could be hotly contested by our Patels and Sardars, among others.

I must admit that i am one of those guyz whoz trying to get into tht list of 66% indians..and i am not all alone .. i got company... srik and rajesh :). There was never a day where we dint discuss about the life in US of A. We would discuss about the cars, movies , food joints, the life there and the main point of discussion would obviously be about the blondes and desi babes in the US ;). We rarely discussed about the universities though we got 3 admits each. :D

Sometimes in the night when i start thinking about the life a year from now, i get very nostalgic :(. I seriously think whether the pain is worth enough studying in US leaving your loved ones back home. When i speak about this to srik and rajesh they feel my thoughts sound too girlish :(. Does it really sound so ? well i think NO. After leading a "ROYAL" life here in India, can i even think of working somewhere in a petrol bunk or a bar or a restaurant or as a pizza delivery boy in the US? I have friends working like these in the US and it really pains me when i think i have to do all these when there is no other go at the University i study.

But then being an average student, there isnt much chance to study further in INDIA. Masters in India and that too from a decent university/college is really tough, and it gets even more tough when you are not one among the OBC's. This very thing made me think about pursing higher studies abroad and with the qualifications i got, i am very happy to say that i got admits from good universities.

Its all about balancing the options you got. Like how a saying goes in hindi " Kuch paana hai toh kuch khona padta hai". This is what is happening to most us here. In order to PAANA a MS frm US you have to KHONA the love and affection of your loved ones and to miss the place where you spent 20 years.Maybe it’s a purely emotional thought but as we go further away from our roots, there exists a certain loss of identity which is hard to regain as time passes.