Amandeep Khurana, from Thapar Institute of Technology, is part of the fresh crop of grad students to join the Department of Computer Science at University of California, Santa Cruz. In this short but sweet interview - Amandeep gives us a glimpse on how he is adjusting to life away from home, and trying to adjust in with the new settings. Many times when you are unfamiliar with the new environment, the grad student community which is living there already - often pitches in with a great deal of support. Here …

What are some of the chief reasons why some candidates make it and other dont reach the expectations of the admissions committee at US universities is that - those candidates that do get in - have started preparing early and so there is always time to correct mistakes if any. This is what Awantika Manohar talks about. Awantika has been accepted to many graduate programs in Law (LLM) in the US and she has chosen to accept Cornell. She shares with kaaledge.com what she feels are important aspects of applying …

Not many people know about Masters in the area of Industrial engineering or as it is known in the US as Management Science and Engineering. Graduates from this field land up jobs at some of the most admired companies of the world like Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Google, Microsoft along with a host of start up companies. Dhruv Sampat just recently graduated with an MS in MS&E from Stanford. He shares some of his thoughts and his background with us here:
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I got the chance to meet and interact with Mona Sharma here at Stanford this year and I must say Mona is a really inspiring person. I talked to her about various issues and i thought it would be good to get it out on kaaledge.com for everyone’s benefit. Mona is at Stanford on a year long Fullbright Scholarship - under the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching program.