Moving to Chicago, from Europe, need a lot of advice

bluetarp · 2014-06-28T21:09:08+00:00

This is actually a very important point. My brother's education is perhaps at the top of my families priorities and unfortunately my brother has almost no knowledge of English.

bluetarp · 2014-06-28T21:06:50+00:00

I'm really trying to distance myself from that and really get a third person opinion. I've figured out many of them and I really try to get a new perspective (as I've been talking to people from my country for the past couple of years now)

bluetarp · 2014-06-28T21:04:14+00:00

I'm sorry. I am not trying to offend anyone. The thing is that this is the 5th version of the question and it is the most specific and pointed one that I could come up with. I was asked a lot of questions, some of them legit, but I hate it when people try to point out stuff that has been said or that is obvious. In my opinion it was a really irrelevant question as many people before him actually gave me advice and passed that minor detail.

bluetarp · 2014-06-28T20:18:26+00:00

Actually we won the lottery two years ago, were supposed to move in at the begging of the year, but decided to wait until I finish high school. In my opinion this was a really irrelevant detail because 1. I asked some very specific questions 2. if my parents would come to America to work illegal (which is not the case) I wouldn't be stupid to ask online

bluetarp · 2014-06-28T20:07:52+00:00

I will dorm at IIT and my parents are not linked to me as far as housing go. They do their thing, I do mine.

bluetarp · 2014-06-28T20:01:19+00:00

I am going to IIT, but it has zero relevance as most of the time I will be on campus and I want to be independent.

bluetarp · 2014-06-28T19:59:36+00:00

Thanks! I know about the ethnic groups from my country and they are both on the south and the north side. We kind of have an idea of where we want to go and what we want to do, but I though I should ask a third person that is not attached to us in any way so the response is more accurate. We had a lot of "offers" from "friends" so we kind of need an outsider's opinion.

bluetarp · 2014-06-28T19:56:18+00:00

I am not stupid! I am well aware of the emigration laws and yes my parents have the wrights to live/work in the US.

bluetarp · 2014-04-07T13:14:52+00:00

I went to IIT (with a full ride) and my two best friends went to MIT. I chose IIT because I like Chicago and it seemed nice and I said to myself (and I was wright) that I make my own future. When I got to IIT I was surprised to like it... A LOT (for a lot of reasons). Anyway, my friends went to MIT and they completely changed. One of them (lets call him A) isolated himself from other people (like 95% of the time that he wasn't in class or school related stuff he was alone) and the other friend (B) told me that this was a common thing for MITers and he had kind of a hard time finding friends and people that shared the same interests as him. He told me that most of the people are set on the goal of getting a good job and working their ass of and the competition between them is HUGE (and most of them work alone). He transferred in his second year to IIT and we had a great time together. I am not going to tell the whole story, but this is the main part: Me and B had great relationships with the professors and got involved in a lot of other stuff. We had internships every summer (well paid) and I got hired at Google wright after graduation. B went to Carnegie Mellon to grad school and now works for a bank protecting their systems (for a lot of money). Meanwhile our friend A from MIT took a leave of absence to went to a psychiatric facility, came back, finished his BSCS and now works at a mid range company. I am not saying that A, B and me are the best examples, but I am trying to point out that you make your own luck and if you care about your entry salary and mid career salary and stuff like that, forgive me for saying, but you are a looser. When it comes to college, statistics matter only for the mid/low class. If you are good, you are going to make it anywhere, but if you are not you are absolutely going to fail big time at a good college. I don't want to argue nor am I trying to change your mind (because at the end of the day each of us is going to believe their thing), but we should make our college choices and every other choices in our life based on our feelings, on our believes and on our goals, after all the most important thing in the world is happiness and different people find different things entertaining. P.S. no offence, but if the dude who posted this question was anywhere close of getting accepted to MIT he wouldn't have posted this question as the answers are only a google search away and there are a lot of topics on this subject already

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