Saturday, January 24, 2009

After 4 months!

Phew.... Finally I am all done mailing application packets to various universities in Europe. Here's the time line of the events that took place in my life in the past 4 months.
Late October, I decide to apply to European universities, after days of research on the internet. Most of the universities ask only for TOEFL scores, so I register for TOEFL exam, the exam date: Nov 23.
Early November, I start making trips to college for recommendation letters and for attestation of the documents. I remember sweating in the heat (Yeah.. its was very hot) running from one block to another, in the college. I managed to get recos from two professors. Even though, all the universities I had planned to apply asked for 2 recos, I wanted one more, which I couldn't get. Moving on I took the TOEFL on Nov 23. The test went on well apart from a few mistakes in the reading and the listening section, mainly because of my lack of concentration (TOEFL is 41/2 hr long test).
In December, I filled out the online applications and sent out a application packet to T.U.Eindhoven as this one didn't ask for TOEFL score. This was my first packet, so took a long time to get it ready after checking and cross checking everything. I got the TOEFL score (overall: 107) on Dec 11. Mailed another two packets to Sweden and Finland (TKK) in the last week of Dec. The Finland packet reached on Dec 31 2008, but the packet to Sweden took another week to reach.
I finished mailing the rest three packets by January 15. These packets were destined to Italy, Spain and Denmark. I had used UPS for all the packets except for the Denmark one. As for the Denmark one I think its still in transit as it is shipped by India Post.
The notary was not punctual to office, he gave me trouble attesting the documents. I had to wait for an hour in the morning in front of his office for 4 days. Hence I had to seal four of the packets in a hurry.
Currently waiting for a confirmation mail from Spain and Denmark and of course anxious about the final results from these universities...