Posted by: pire October 22, 2008
Choosing the University
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pyaradeshbasiharu mitra,

There is no thing wrong with going to village school or anything. I am not saying you can't go anywhere without going to top school. I don't know what you do, but ever wonder how come professors of top university, directors of top research labs, inventors of top technologies are rarely from lower ranked school?

Mitra, ani guff diera matra hudaina. How do you know you can beat anyone in any given day? Perhaps it shows your ignorance, my friend. Have you published in top journals, or have you patented some good technology? If that is the case, then , sure, you are as good as them. But if that is not the case, then you haven't really met a smart person. It reminded me an Indian who had married a Nepali and whom I met in a party. He obviously was either a pompous person, or wanted to show off in front of a Nepali. He said something along the line that , " ..people from MIT, Caltech work under me. So, I am better than them." It turned out that this person was working at a car-rental company headquarter. Sure, even if he were not lying, there may be students from top schools working under him, but he didn't meet the top students of top schools.

Personally, most of the Nepali I have met haven't cut it into top research labs or top faculty position unless they have graduated from top schools. Of course, the people I have met represents only a small sample of total people. But a lot of Nepali are going to top schools, and they have a great future, and more importantly, they may not spend a lot of their time in Sajha unlike you and me:)
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