All set to go!!!

• Admissions (Check)
• Visa (Check)
  Shopping (Check)

All that is left is flying to Unites States of America!!! Ok Ok...Dun worry.This is not yet another blog on the experiences during the entire procedure while apply for masters in engineering or advices regarding how to go on with the procedure. This is just a post about how excited I am to go there and how I am feeilng right now. Visa was a terrible experience! Although I got through within half a minute but the entire thing was nervy. If my interview wouldn't have come for another half an hour I would have had a Cardiac Arrest for sure.

I am feeling ecstatic at the moment. All excited to stay on my own. Finding room mates, talking to them over the phone, trying to find apartments, etc is all so fun.When two people with same passion come together, they have a blast of a time. Imagine around 30 people meeting for the so called "University meets" where the agenda decided was apartments, roomies etc but the thing actually discussed was nuthing. All excited to go THE STATES. All trying to know each other, make friends. It feels like first day of junior college. All dressed and behaving to their best, trying to leave behind a big impression.

Next up is relatives. Everybody wants to meet you and invite you at their place for lunch, dinner and then praise you in front of their children as to show what a big deal it is to go to United states {or to show them the geek who is going to the US.Whatever!!! Who cares as long as you get good deserts}. Calls all day round congratulating and wishing all the luck and giving advices here and there. Right from what to do once you enter the flight till what kind of friends you should have {Oh!!! come on....(I do appreciate the concern, however)}. Distant relatives who havent called up in years call up and talk as if there has been no communication gap at all...It feels like you are RICH!!! I am just basking in the glory {Of what???} and enjoying the attention that everyone is showering.

The list of "LASTS." This is one amazing and excellent way of emotionally blacmailing people. "This is my last birthday in India, dad. Please buy me ...." or "This is your last Holi here. So you better come along rather then goin with your family" {No prizes to guess who would say this}. Lats birthdays, Last valentines, Last holi/Diwali all since Last Year...Ohh forgot to mention Last 31st.... The flipside is people around you will also use the same things on you. But worth it!!!

Its one hell of time that I am having here. I guess pre-departure is all more fun then post departure. I guess it stays this way forever!!!