BS to MS to PhD (F1 to H1B transition)

With 4 months in work and out of school, I find time to write a blog about my educational path. Now, I feel more relaxed and find more time rather than when I was at school, as opposed to the common saying, you won't find time when you start working. Been at school for long enough, intending to stay in the industry at least for a while, before I go back to school (if I ever will).

I still remember the day of the EAMCET results, I was so nervous, but 2 years of hard-work fetched me a rank of 250, good, I am settled for my life I thought. After 2 years, I am in same boat again what to do after the engineering, being always interested in higher studies, wrote GRE, TOEFL etc etc and got admission in a decent university in US with financial assistance. From the day, I made the decision to come to US, to this date, I have been dealing with the immigration stuff. To come to US, I need student visa, aka F1. I went to Chennai Consulate to get the Visa, telling every truth about me and ended in getting my visa rejected on that grounds of "not financially sound" since my father was retired. This was so frustrating. Though, I had a job in hand, I was not convinced to continue with the job, since I put all my heart towards MS. The second time, I got come training from the so-called visa consulting firms in India. They gave me answers to about 200+ questions they ask in the visa interviews and trained me with all those answers. On the day of second visa interview, it happened that I went to the same visa officer (VO) who interviewed me the first time, realizing that he sent me to another VO. There were about 10 people before me in the line, every one's rejected. At my turn, I answered all the questions very well as per I was trained, the last question (generally known to be the last), "What would you do if I reject your visa again?" hsh, what would I do I thought. I started telling him softly, "I would try to see why its rejected and then......" I could see the VO's expression not being so satisfied, I turned the table and said, "If not, I have also got offers from other countries and I would go there..." VO said "which others?" In LONDON, ha ha, before I complete the answer, I could hear, "Mam, we will mail in your visa...", Wow, I felt at the top...Thanks to my family friend who pretended to be the VO and asked me these questions, offered his suggestions the previous night....

I will have to stop here. Thanks for the patience if you read until this....The rest of F1 to H1B in part II....Bye bye