Haha school pride is the best. It's something every student who goes to the US must experience. Nothing like it in Malaysia, UK or Australia

aaand this place died again.

Better keep an eye on WTI price. If it goes any lower there gonna be a bloodbath. where I am at, France's Total  and Norway's Statoil have scuttled their projects for the time being. Other companies also reviewing their spending

I know right =_=
It was fun while it lasted haha
Anything else to talk about though?

Haha school pride is the best. It's something every student who goes to the US must experience. Nothing like it in Malaysia, UK or Australia

Sorry, I'm in the midst of several assignments, projects, research and.. MIDTERMS! Bet you haven't heard of that word for some time now..

School Pride? tell me more.

Haha school pride is the best. It's something every student who goes to the US must experience. Nothing like it in Malaysia, UK or Australia

Bro, can elaborate a little more about this school pride above ? Thanks.

You study geology for the love of earth science or you think there where the money is????

p/s...better keep an eye on WTI price. If it goes any lower you can forget the geology job  in the coming years

Go there and experience lor 

patutlah I haven't seen you in the chat for ages lol.
In the US, at least, you retain a very strong affiliation with your undergraduate university, mainly in sports and achievements by alumni (unless you attended a nobody school and then a big university for a graduate degree). School pride. My workplace is "segregated" into those who attended which school, and oh my god the trash talking when sports season (football, basketball) comes around.

The Purdue-IU rivalry? No matter who we play in football, when we're in the stadium, we have a specific cheer for "IU SUCKS!". Because IU always sucks.

I just skimmed through the past few pages and saw someone mentioning that Houston is a beautiful place. I won't deny that but if you've been to Austin, that place is amazing. Nice parks, nice lakes and rivers right in the middle of the city where UT Austin is. Great food.

Haha! Who dares to challenge the Boilers! 

lol it never ends with IU dude. I was just at a bar this past weekend and met an IU guy, and immediately we were both like ... NOPE! TALK TO THE HAND! XD

My friend was at another bar and she said there was an IU girl dancing around and she told her boyfriend "That girl better not touch me!" XD

It's pretty bad lol

Border rivalries....  US colleges are like that.

Same thing happens at Missouri Tigers vs Kansas Jayhawks, Oklahoma Sooners vs Texas Long horns.
Minn Gophers vs Iowa Hawkeyes, etc..

Ahh.. the good old days..  I still have my collegiate rings and sweatshirts. 

Bro,
What did you study in the Uni ?

A lot of stuff... 
Maths, Statistics, Sciences, Psychology, History, Geography, French, Spanish, Japanese, Finances, IT,  Communications,  etc.. but I don't remember much of them now.. 

That's what I thought as well, until I did some calculations based on the statistics.

There is a scaled percentage of winning, which pretty much puts every participant from an eligible country at a 0.X to 1.X% chance of winning. Malaysia has roughly 6000-7000 applicants a year (excluding dependents) and only 70-80 might win. Based on the previous year trends, the number of Malaysians winning each year seems to be going down. Meanwhile, in the 2013 lottery, 6029 Iranians won the lottery out of 369,118 Iranian applicants. That is 1.6%. I hope this gives you the general idea of what is going on.

Countries that have had over 50,000 selected entrants in the past 5 years are not eligible to apply for the DV lottery. These countries are called "high admission countries", and as you could probably guess, such countries include Mainland China, Bangladesh, India, Philippines, and Nigeria.

That is a LOT of questions.. damn, I'm not sure how to answer all of it. Haha. I'll try. I love being in (some parts of) the US! I've never faced discrimination before, a couple of incidents did come close, though. You can just look up how those cities look like on Google, but San Antonio has a beautiful historical downtown river walk and there's a couple of nice spots in Houston. But otherwise, they're just plain suburbs - boring, grid-like and consistent. Just like Damansara/PJ, I guess. There are a million reasons, big and small; on why I don't want to return to Malaysia, but I can go on and on about it that will span the length of several mamak hangout sessions. Most of them are purely materialistic and superficial, and this includes but are not limited to: the ability to own a bunch of kickass cars and such low prices, the fact that I have 2-day free Amazon Prime shipping, Netflix, cheap stuff, Netflix, beautiful national parks, great food, the Second Amendment, and did I mention Netflix?

If you really want to know, we can chat privately about the other reasons, because I don't want to spew out too much irrelevant stuff in an Education Essentials subforum.

Yup, Houston is definitely the mecca of the energy industry here in the Western hemisphere. My dad's here, in the oil and gas industry. So is my aunt, who lives a mile away from our house. I've met a Malaysian girl who's also working in the oil and gas industry here. And I found out that a Malaysian Boilermaker I met earlier this year at the Malaysian Midwest Games at IUB lived in Houston up until recently, as his mother was working in, you guessed it, the oil and gas industry.

hi.. what do you think of chances in  applying the green card lotery of US citizenship nowadays?is it high?