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Yeah...Erin, I'm real glad youve allowed space for this post... Its not quite so much related to the real preparation of the Test, as much to the decision about opting for it. And some of the questions here have a lot of significance for people who are actually moving. It's helping a lot more people than it appears outwardly. And yeah, the title is all yours...if I couldnt name it appropriately enough, well, lets just find another one. You do it if you please...otherwise can we have 'Why GRE' or 'After GRE'... Thanx

Then my helpful suggestion is that you use it all the time...and see. See the effect and then well talk about more. And better borrow a Wren and Martin from somewhere, if a dictionary is all you have for your great Engligh needs. Lest there will definitely be no difference when people will talk about your condition or your plight. Probably a book on English is free somewhere on the net too...see Wikipedia. >

> thanks to you Illusionz and to you CoolPaggy, a word is all that I needed. Anyways to the point straight now. Where are all the other people.... Just drop in a line...say soming...shout...its an issue concerning so many people that want to ultimately be their own bosses...in the best places. And remember, GRE or some such test is our best channel crossing...moreover issues like immigration concern everybody.

I think you have a lesser idea about the actual connotations of a possible word; like you used amelioration in a sense of betterment, when better or a related, in line word would have fitted the bill. You cant always use plight for someone's condition. Refrain from complexity if you are not sure.

Thanks greenhorn, for the costly reply Firstly I dont still see my naivete: people from my college are going all the time to the US, if they so decide (99pc though dont choose to). And the reputation of the college makes sure we get through (many of my seniors have) without even the GPA I barely care to maiontain. Most of them never come back, to show their fdaces: they settle there, helping the American society and obviously, themselves....and whoever talked about a pink carpet....let alone the red one. Its no big deal these days to change countries, even if getting the citizenship and all is...to that extent I agree, but going and settling....I assure you , you only need to say YEAH. And nowhere did I talk about not having to face difficulties.... I ONLY WANT SUGGESTIONS ABOUT THE WAY TO CHOOSE. And its not just here Im posting....you'll be immature thinking that way....just think this message has even come into a GRE notice board... Do you know how how mnany boards cater exclusively to business, immigration and NRI help?? BTW I know most people here are Asians....I also know the major part of them are Indians Thanks anyway

I'll be short and precise. I'm from India, Im pursuing a B.E. (Engineering) degree in Civil and Environmental field (which I donmt have any special liking for) from one of the more reputed institutes of South India. As much as I hate the field( civil, I took it up for lack of options as much as to be called a graduate), I love entrepreneurship. I'm furiously interested in setting something up all by myself. And now the dilemma. It's easy, people, for me to pass my course with a good GPA (civil is easy too, in addition, competition is not that much) and thereby (with a hopefully fine GRE score) securte a seat in a MS course in US (in civil too)...just pls wait a second, Im explaining...so that after 2 more years of additional poison drinking I might get a chance to start up somethingh (any enterprise) where else but in US...and fulfil my desire of being an entrepreneur in a developed country. (for all you worried americans out there, I DONT need your job...I wanna come and give YOU a couple of dozen or so ...all on my free sweat blood and toil...trying to generate employment, that is as much as one person can...) OR, I stay on here in India completing just my BE , try and get some finance, fight or atleast struggle with all the red tape and and get started up. I wouldnt have to waste two years over something I detest soo totally....MS is an option becuz thats the only proper channel through which I can enter any developed country, like America (for availing the better lifestyle and adding as much as one person can to it). Magazines here shout India is booming...economy 's growing, cheap labour, eight percent GDP incremnet and all.But 8 pc out of 500Bn dolls is nuffink to even 3pc (americas rate???) out of some 8000 Bn Dolls (US' GDP). Plus I believe a lot less competition....cuz population is less there) Bottomline is I just want to do something on my own...which needs to grow at the best rate that is...whereever its possible. Overall which option is good? I also think we can make things here (India, due to the cheap labour and evrything) and export....though there are ills accompanying) ADDITIONAL QUERIES, IF MY DECISION FALLS RIGHT ON THE US MS SIDE, AS i SEE IT LEANING CONSIDERABLY TO THE WEST: Will I need to maintain a high grade COMPULSORILY (thereby DIRECTLY affecting my extra curricular work and other things) to get a job at the end or even to merely stay on there. Will it be easy getting a job with a BE (civil), MS (civil), and if so, in whatever fields...computer sciences too or just the civil... Do most people stay or are they just sent packing after the course... Will the pay be at par with the prevailing standards...whats the real deal... Will I be at the mercy of the employer and his whims and all...is exploitation rife... I dont expect it to be like Mtv, but what about the racism... Will I have to invest time heavily in the MS curriculum or will it be easy cake walk. People Ive talked to say its just an average course and people do get a lot of time free... Will I have to take up trite jobs (helping the library or labs) simply to survive... What must we do to be definitely sent packing after the course...can we hit and injure some deserving, uncouth soul. MY RELATIVELY MAIN POINTS AGAIN: Can we start some enterprise thing immediately after our MS , or is a green card required. Ive read a lot on the US Visa websites and all, but actually in real life, how much time and what all things they ask for, to give you a green card? What abt other developed countries of Europe or Australia/New Zealand etc How about Canada...is it easier enrolling and staying there afterwards or is it as they say, a cold country with little activity...dull and not lucrative? Kindly reply in whichever way YOU want to, to this post. At the other end, someone wants to read something...anything. Why not try and make this the longest thread anywhere in the world, with everone, even, simply, calling me names...