Thursday, 19 July 2012

Better use of communication

    Almost all the universities/colleges has an international service desk with them. We can contact them directly and get help. I sent an email to the id mentioned in that asking for the point of contact in India. I am talking about university in Latvia here. They directed me towards a consultancy in Chennai and to my surprise they charge 65,000 INR for the entire process of admission which includes the VISA charges and some other charges, which I didn't cared to remember. I don't know about others, but I am very much against paying money to anyone who claims to get the job done (until there is no other way of getting the job done). The very first point of paying them for consultation and admission made me rethink and when I got an info from the contact abroad that there is high unemployment issue, I decided not to apply.
    
    Stopping digression, I have a Skype Id with me which I use for office communication mainly. I thought of searching through contacts who are already in Estonia in majority of the social networking sites. I want to tell you one thing here, I am not much inclined to social networking, so my search were clearly restricted to FB and LinkedIn. Then I suddenly remembered skype, and I thought why shouldn't I search for someone from Estonia and get some advice from them. I did find many contacts and then I filtered the contacts according to my convenience. Say for example, people from Estonia who has been migrated to other countries, I didn't prefer to contact them. I had a common message for all the requests it went something like this.


Hi xxxxxxxx! I’d like to add you on Skype. I am planning to do my higher studies in xxxxx, looking for some information about life in xxxxx. Hope you can help me with this. Thanks in Advance xxxxxxxx."


     You know, not many contacted me in return. Some people who contacted me, gave me an idea about life there. Also I looked for advises from many blogs especially travel blogs etc. Surprisingly, I got in touch with someone from India and that too he was from the same univ to which I have been planning to apply. 
I would seriously advice to anyone who is willing to do anything at all, to make better use of the internet, it is not only for getting knowledge, but you don't know whom you will get in touch with sometimes who can turn the tables for you. 


Cheers to all who are planning to study abroad.

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