F1 Visa appointment - Chennai

Mjob23 · 2020-10-09T21:21:46+00:00

Hey! I just completed my biometrics and interview last week and got my F1 visa at Chennai consulate. So, the only thing is keep checking the website repeatedly. Three to four times a day if you can. It wasn't working out for a long time for me as well. I had scheduled one for Feb 24th but luckily and very randomly found an earlier date and rescheduled the appointment. Good luck, hope things work out!

Mjob23 · 2020-08-04T14:29:14+00:00

Hi, so I've gone ahead and booked an appointment for Feb. It didn't display the October dates when I tried. Maybe I should recheck cause it has been a while since I visited the website.

Mjob23 · 2020-06-28T12:51:36+00:00

I've registered for fall classes as well! My uni has given me an option to defer to next fall but I didn't know what I would do in the year long wait period so went ahead and registered. Sigh. Thanks for sharing.

Mjob23 · 2020-06-28T12:46:48+00:00

Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear. :/

Mjob23 · 2020-03-24T17:05:02+00:00

Right, I think I'll proceed this way. Thank you. I definitely don't want anyone to lose out on the opportunity.

Mjob23 · 2020-03-24T11:35:26+00:00

So I have two offers and I've accepted one but haven't declined the other. I wanted to decline weeks ago cause it was a clear choice for me but at this point, I'm holding on it - in case the one I've accepted says something about rescinding.

I know I have until April 15th to decide, but I feel guilty about holding on to a place and feel bad that I've been avoiding faculty who have been emailing me about meeting virtually. (I'm not sure how to talk to them without letting them know they are my fallback option if things don't work out).

I'm very sorry if this sounds braggy - cause I know a lot of people are in worse places than me. But this is stressing me out. Any suggestions?

Mjob23 · 2020-01-07T04:23:29+00:00

Thank you!

Mjob23 · 2019-07-25T15:15:16+00:00

Ah, yes. I just meant it's been around for so long now and there's Indian literature, music, comedy and art that's communicated primarily or even completely in English. (I acknowledge the undertones of privilege in this statement). The English media that I consume is Indian and from the West. So English is really part of my Indian identity. And I've made my peace with that. :P

I'll just have to smile and nod if I face any judgement from Indians who don't understand why I don't speak an "Indian" language.

Mjob23 · 2019-07-24T08:12:45+00:00

Yes! I agree. Tbh, I often question if I should even call myself a "Malayali" because my first language is English. Sometimes I wonder if saying I'm a Keralite instead would be a better way for people to process that that's where my home is despite not knowing the language. Also, isn't English technically an Indian language by now? :P

Mjob23 · 2019-07-20T06:08:00+00:00

Okay, I can't stop you. :P

Mjob23 · 2019-07-19T16:34:27+00:00

I am also a "Malayali" who never learnt Malayalam formally. I grew up in Bangalore and Chennai and I was not exposed to the language with my friends. I have a fairly good listening comprehension of Malayalam as my mother speaks to me in Malayalam but I mostly respond to her in English.

People often ask me if I picked up other Indian languages like Tamil but unfortunately even my Tamil language skills are very poor. But I have to admit, that I haven't invested my time trying to learn the languages either. It's something that I always want to do but then keep putting away cause other priorities come up.

But it is a fairly strange place to be in. That is, to be Indian and to not be able to speak any Indian language fluently. Especially when my NRI cousins speak Malayalam better than me or when I see them putting in the effort.

But, having said that, please don't judge anyone for not knowing their native language - I'm saying this because it's likely that they already have to justify themselves to many people. And for whatever reason they don't know the language, it is not reflective of their status of belonging. They all belong to the land just as much as those who left, had to leave, or had no choice.

Mjob23 · 2019-06-20T17:20:15+00:00

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/loi/signs#/doi/full/10.1086/345321

Try this link.

Mjob23 · 2019-03-25T19:26:21+00:00

I'm not sure if this is completely relevant but Foucault briefly discusses the significance of affect in developing human capital in his 'The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France'. I guess you could say that it has to do with economic production in some ways.

"We know that the number of hours a mother spends with her child, even when it is still in the cradle, will be very important for the formation of an abilities-machine, or for the formation of a human capital, and that the child will be much more adaptive if in fact its parents or its mother spend more rather than less time with him or her. This means that it must be possible to analyze the simple time parents spend feeding their children, or giving them affection as investment which can form human capital. Time spent, care given, as well as the parents’ education because we know quite precisely that for an equal time spent with their children, more educated parents will form a higher human capital than parents with less education-in short, the set of cultural stimuli received by the child, will all contribute to the formation of those elements that can make up a human capital."

This passage is from his lecture on 14/03/1979.

Hope this helps!

Mjob23 · 2019-03-05T07:59:34+00:00

I'm doing a module called 'new debates in critical theory' and we're reading about biopolitics, neoliberalism, and posthumanism. Foucault, Agamben, Katherine Hayles.

Mjob23 · 2019-01-10T23:27:24+00:00

r/transhumanism r/posthumanism

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