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Time Table for a freshly arrived Desi Graduate Student
Contributed by: Vadivelu Elumalai (vadi@altagroup.com)
(original author unknown: If you know the author, please let us know)
- 6 Sept 1996 - Arrive in the US.
- 7 Sept 1996 - Get all information about credit cards and how to apply for them.
Send Emails to all and sundry.
- 8 Sept 1996 - Apply for the first credit card.
- 9 Sept 1996 - Discover Soc.Culture.Indian.
- 10 Sept 1996 - Join the CD club.
- 11 Sept 1996 - Rejected for first credit card.
- 12 Sept 1996 - Receive junk mail announcing that 'You have won the Grand
Prize in a Sweepstake.' Be thrilled for half a day and phone up the scam
company.
- 13 Sept 1996 - Watch first American football game on TV. Make a comment that
soccer is much better.
- 14 Sept 1996 - Go to Iowa State University on a visit to see friends.
- 15 Sept 1996 - Make a post on Soc.Culture.Indian.
- 16 Sept 1996 - Make father, brother, roommates as members of CD club.
- 17 Sept 1996 - Buy Nike Air Jordan shoes and Levy 501s.
- 18 Sept 1996 - Find an American football team to support and be a fan of
that team like crazy as if you have known the team since you were born.
- 19 Sept 1996 - Locate all wingmates and classmates and compile a mailing
list of all old classmates.
- 20 Sept 1996 - Be the first in the batch to attend a Jethro Tull concert. The
Tull group now plays exclusively for the IIT guys, because they are the only
remaining fans of Tull.
- 22 Sept 1996 - End 'piling on' with seniors and make that first pot
of dal and rice.
- 30 Sept 1996 - Receive first paycheck and buy VCR and watch hindi movies.
- 1 Oct 1996 - Receive first phone bill for three hundred dollars.
- 1 Dec 1996 - Be the first one in the batch to go to get a driver's licence
and go to Florida.
- 23 Dec 1996 - Enroll in Dancing class, swimming class and aerobics class.
- 24 Dec 1996 - Be the first one to shed 'rookie' status by getting a real
credit card, (other than an American Express card) buying a car, organizing
a football party, visiting Delaware and actually starting a project toward
Masters or a Ph. D.
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