<p>hehehe…</p>
<p>the further from home the better…imagine…im going 5,000 km away from this hell hole called korea for college.</p>
<p>actually itl be 10,000 if i go to columbia or cornell some tight place like that! that means double the fun!</p>
<p>somebody mentioned the kantabai scene in kal ho na ho…now I agree that was prolly the funniest bit.</p>
<p>Thank you very much but Korea is NOT a hell hole…</p>
<p>I’m not even going to be as low as you and insult your home country called India…</p>
<p>how about we change the topic before this thread becomes sketchy. </p>
<p>are any of you posters who live in india or pakistan applying to IIT? (be thankful we don’t have to deal with THAT stress…)</p>
<p>sorry…I shudnt have said that…in fact when I was writing that post I had just had a big fight with some koreans and I was still hot-headed. again…sincere apologies.</p>
<p>I hope silver_wavez has put that idiotic statement of mine aside and continue to post in this thread. </p>
<p>well, I took a practice JEE exam on the net…argh it was so bad, so hard. I dunno how people even get in. The avg study hrs a day is 18 freakin hours, and still ppl find it hard. that means no time to eat or do anything, not even take a ****…all to get into IIT, not guaranteed whether ul get the engineering stream u want or not…what a life.</p>
<p>No worries :)</p>
<p>lol… No hard feelings…
Besides I forget about things easily.
And I’d love to keep on posting in this Desi party thread… lol… I only learnt what “desi” was on CC :)</p>
<p>thanks for forgettin it…well in reply to ur post from another thread, im an indian in korea…my dad wrks for samsung in geoje-do (u know where that is?). im studyin in at TCIS an international school here in Taejon. Wt abt u?</p>
<p>isn’t it Jeju-do?
Jeju Island?</p>
<p>I’ve been to Taejon… my cousins used to live there…</p>
<p>I’m in Singapore… and I’ve been here for the past 8 years…</p>
<p>I’ve moved around a lot since I was young… been outside Korea for most of my life… I miss it… I miss the beautiful 4 seasons… Singapore gets too hot!</p>
<p>no its not Jeju…thats the big island…this is a 45 min ferry ride from Busan where all Samsung and Daewoo have their shipyards.</p>
<p>Its been really tough adjusting to Korea, especially the lack of communication can really be frustrating… I was in norway before I came here…was born there and lived there for 15 yrs, got so sick and tired of it that i wanted to leave, and now i feel so very homesick.</p>
<p>u in the American school there?</p>
<p>WOW Norway eh? Do you speak any Norwegian?</p>
<p>Nope… You know people at SAS?</p>
<p>I’m at UWC 
I think SAS and our school are rivals… tee hee…
Umm… yeh UWC is great, I’m lovin’ it… although I’m feeling the pressures of IB - (which is a complete ■■■■■■!)
<a href=“http://www.uwcsea.edu.sg%5B/url%5D”>www.uwcsea.edu.sg</a> - I’ll do some school advertizing while I’m at it lol…</p>
<p>Yeh… Whenever I go back to Korea (I mainly stay in Seoul and the suburbs near it)… I become easily frustrated and irritated at little things… people can be so rude and agressive sometimes… But that’s cus I’m so used to the chilled-out, easy n relaxed atmosphere of Singapore… Man… how am I gonna find the BUZZ of NYC? lol… I actually CANNOT WAIT! I need to get out of the protected bubble that I live in…</p>
<p>I know this guy in SAS called Nick Kreston…he’s playing the lead role in the play there I think…he was with me in Norway for 8 yrs. Where are u applyin in NY? Im going for cornell. super reach is PRINCETON!! MY DREAM!! well yeah, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride…</p>
<p>Im also applyin to NTU in singapore as one of my int’l safety schools…the tuition is soooooo low…5000 sg bucks.</p>
<p>Wow… NTU and NUS are really top notch schools actually!
I would no way apply here cus I need to get out this place…
But… NUS is world ranked and renowned…</p>
<p>There’s only 3 unis here - NTU (the technological uni), NUS (national uni) and SMU (singapore management uni, i assume they do business and things).</p>
<p>Umm… I don’t know many SASers… the ones I do know have all graduated actually… or are in the younger years.</p>
<p>O… Princeton? You like?? hmm… I went to visit… and Princeton and I did not mesh very well…</p>
<p>Now… Columbia and I… oohh that is a TOTALLY different story 
muahahhaa! Should I say lurrve at first sight? hmm… yep! Instant fatal attraction… and that’s how the love story goes…</p>
<p>Besides Columbia ED (did you apply ED too)…
I’m applying toooo…
NYU, Barnard, UChicago, Brown, BC, Occidental (and mind you! - it’s not Accidental!), Claremont McKenna, Wellesley and… hmm… I forget the last one… OO wait… o yes last but not least… Wesleyan…</p>
<p>ah both my parents went to IIT! but nope, thankfully i’m not, i don’t think i could deal with that test</p>
<p>both mine are from IIT Bombay…crazy parents passed the JEE…so freakin smart…im so surprised they have a stupid kid like me who gets a 1350 on SAT. oh well.</p>
<p>im not applyin to columbia…I didnt like NYC very much - its just too big. I was in a city of 150,000 in norway for 15 years, and mind u its supposed to be the 3rd biggest in the country and the stronghold for multinational companies and the oil biz. So NYC with 20 million ppl is just a little too overwhelming i feel. In that town in norway I knew every single road, every single bylane and alley and I just liked it that way…id prefer a place like Ithaca where cornell is so yeah…</p>
<p>small quiet and peaceful…thats what i like. </p>
<p>btw i couldnt apply ED/EA anywhere cuz i hadnt taken the SATs in time…my SAT IIs are gonna be done for the first time on jan 22nd</p>
<p>what is IIT… and JEE?</p>
<p>I got a 1350 too… 
How STUPID of me… I must say though… I did feel rather stupid not being able to hit that 1400…</p>
<p>o… and you’re not applying to Columbia… hmmm… at least that’s one less competition… So then… where ARE you applying to call the cops?</p>
<p>my dad was at IIT bombay for masters, and both my parents IIT madras for BSE</p>
<p>boo…i just felt i had to say that…umm…white power!!!.wait?no…</p>
<p>my mom went to BHU before it changed into IIT. my dad got a seat at IIT but turned it down for med school. </p>
<p>lots of the indian kids from india have many relatives in IIT (often a reason that made them go abroad)</p>
<p>contessa, melville, eh? i’m from massapequa.</p>
<p>IIT is Indian Institute of Technology…the best chain of unis in India. IIT bombay is the best out of the 7 in the country. JEE is the “Joint Entrance Exam” - entrance exam for IITs. Its super hard- as i had said befr. u neeed minimum 18hrs a day studying to have a chance of getting in. The number who sit for the exam are abt 200,000 and only 3000 get in 1.5% acceptance rate. its insane. They dont give a **** abt ECs, Recs, ur school grades…it all depends on the exam.</p>