#1 Its not a piece of a cake

Most Indian students believe (or were led to believe by the great
previous foolish generation of our parents) that Americans are
dumb/American education system is poor. Dont believe them.
Previous generation of our Fathers/Uncles was inexperienced and
stupid. Remember its the same generation who led you to believe
that Bohot scope he beta Engineering me. They meant well, no
doubt, they are good people, but they are inexperienced when it
comes to the outer world than their 50km radius.
World has changed, a lot. Americans are one of the most
hardworking people Ive ever met. American students make sure
that they get a chance to work with a Professor by talking to them,
they are good at that. More than that, Ive 8590
Korean/Chinese/Japanese students who will work 18 hours a day to
make sure that they come out better than you, and they do.
Ive friends who topped their respective state universities in India,
were unable to get a 0/100 in Microsofts test on programming.
Dont think that you know programming. More than half the world is
better than you.
#2 Jobs are not easy
I know an Environmental Engineer, who somehow applied to 2000+
companies in a period of 6 months. I know a couple of Information
Systems students who applied to various jobs (more than 1500) in 9
months before getting a call for an interview. I remember applying
to 10 companies in India and getting a job. India has more jobs. I
study in a reputable university in US whose CS used to be one of the
best till 85. Out of 100, hardly 10 gets an internship. Dont think
that there are millions of opportunities in USA.
#3 Jobs are not for you
I study in Mechanical Engineering and I expected that number of
companies for Mechanical Engineering would be less than CS/IT/MIS.
Wrong. Weve the same jobs.
Problem is here.
When Career Fair came last year, I was excited to see 120+
companies on day one in the fair for Mechanical alone. For CS there
were around 130+. But here is the scene. They have various criteria
such as, US Citizen/State Licence/Min work exp in US based

company/Non-Alien resident/Only for Undergrads etc. I shortlisted

according to these criteria and turned out to be only 5/120
companies where I can go. So, for a class of 95/100 immigrants
there were 5 companies, and for 5 Americans there were 115/120.
Cool huh?
#4 You dont know a shit
When you enter a class in Grad studies, specially a field with a lot of
Math in it (Aeronautics/Mechanical/Electrical etc) they expect you
that you know MATLAB, Mathematica, Pro-E, CATIA, ANSYS, MAPLE,
Simulink, CFD along with all the tools which you probably have
never even heard of. First lecture will finish the course more than
you studied in entire semester in India. Your life will be worse and
you will think of going back to India. You fight. You clear the test. You
may even get a good grade. In the end you will realize you still dont
know a shit.
Trust me, you dont know a shit.
#5 Get ready for Stress/Depression
You come from a place where mom made you good food everyday
and threw dishes for the maid to clean up at the end of the day. Your
parents went for a grocery and all you did was to make them cry
internally by throwing away their food.
Buckle up. Youve to make your food now. Youll start living on Bread
and Milk. You will get annoyed/frustrated of before and after the job
of consuming food. Youve to walk a mile to get grocery and lift 10
kg of it in your hand and walk in a snow 2 feet deep. Your nose will
start bleeding sometime due to that cold. You use to order a pizza
from PizzaHut/Dominoes in India worth 150Rs by a single call when
youre hungry, now you cant. Min cost of pizza comes around 15$
and including service tax, delivery charge, tip it comes around 21$
= 1500Rs, which you cant afford. So you walk a mile to buy a pizza,
just to save tip+delivery charge of 5$. It sucks.
Youll constantly hear angry shouts of your senior roommates to
clean up the mess you made in the kitchen. Youve a debt with a
bank in India and your grades suck worse than a vacuum cleaner,
you will find only one way.
Jack Daniels.

Jack Daniels, Evan Williams, Corona, Budweiser, Irish Whiskey

Tullamore Dew, Absolute Russian Vodka, Budlight, Royal
Challengers, in the worst case, Cocaine/Heroine will become your
partners. You will drink until you pass out or when you get in the
bed, you will feel like the bed is trying to throw you away.
I never smoked in India. Now I smoke like there is nothing else in the
life. Why? If fucking helps. It feels like vomiting your whole days
shits in the smoke while throwing away puffs of smoke from the
basement window out in the air.

Welcome Depression.
I lived there for 9 months, severely depressed that my legs stopped
working for me in the morning when I wanted to wake up, I suddenly
decided to take a break from all these shits. I called my sister in
California that I am tired and I need a break. She booked a flight
ticket for me to India immediately that night. It costed her some
money to get tickets, but she did it anyway. She knew what I was
talking about. She had been in the same situation 7 years ago when
she was studying Bio-medical Engineering in Arlington, Texas. She
didnt question me a thing and she understood my silence. Right
now, I am in India for a 2 month vacation and hoping to get well.
So before saying Well, you went to USA. Your life is set, were not
lucky enough to go to the USA, you are. to a fellow of yours, make
sure to walk a mile in his/her shoe. Its not easy here.
Youre living a far better life in India