Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? – Friedrich Nietzsche
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Amazon Prime Free for a Year with an .EDU Email
Amazon.com is giving away Amazon Prime free for a year to students. Just have an .edu email id and you could get this offer. While signing up they ask for your .edu email id, your university and the major. So all students could make real good use of it. As we buy lot of stuff on amazon regularly, so this will be a nice thing to make use of. If I would have came across this, a few days before I would have got my “The Kite Runner” book shipped faster.
It’s free for students – sign up by providing your school and major
So this is what they offer on this free offer of Amazon Prime:
- Amazon Prime free for one year ($79 value) - Unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping on textbooks and millions of other items - No minimum order size - Upgrades to One-Day shipping for $3.99/item
Amazon Student [via lifehacker]
Word for Today – Entree
I was wrong when I pronounced it the first time. I hadn’t heard this word before coming here nor used it. So it was obvious that I would pronounce it incorrectly. So here is the meaning and usage of the word “Entree“.(courtesy: Dictionary.com)
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Common English Mistakes Corrected !
Inspite of me going to a reputed English medium school, I often speak crappy english..Doesn’t matter . important thing is to correct such common mistakes soon.. Below are some wrong and correct usage of english for common silly mistakes we make in day to day life !
What went wrong-complex finance explained hilariously
What went wrong with the finance companies and whats going on around … this is a nice ppt forwarded by Pavi which explains the complex finance scenario in a simple manner keeping the “hilarious” factor ON..
A must read for all.. its not at all complex to understand
ps: Sorry I tried to save it in normal .ppt format, by doing this it increased the size of the ppt to 72Mb. So attaching the original .pptx file.
Happy Engineer’s Day
Its a great honor to be an engineer. Today is the 148th birthday of Sir M.V (Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya). A recipient of Bharat Ratna, an eminent engineer and a great stateman. To honour him and his remarkable contribution to enigneering we celebrate Sept 15th(Sir M.V’s birthday) as Engineer’s Day.
Happy Teacher’s Day
World Teacher’s Day is celebrated on October 5th, whereas in India, we celebrate Teacher’s day on Sept 5th dedicating the day to Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (on his birthday) India’s second President who was a great teacher and a philosopher.
A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others. I had the opportunity to learn under some great teachers during my school & college days. On this day I want to thank all my teachers for all their guidance and help and especially to one great teacher who who made my life !
Google had their own unique style as usual to celebrate Teacher’s Day( http://www.google.co.in)
News:Regulation Extending Maximum OPT Period Under Consideration
Click on this link to see the details . :http://pubweb.fdbl.com/news1.nsf/9abe5d703b986cff86256e310080943a/0b78f58e43977c968525741e006a85f5?OpenDocument
link courtesy : shriram
We can say it as a good news and as well as not good. I hadn’t analyzed it the other way until Vishu told me.the time when i wrote didn’t make sense , editing it..
–edited
There are many conditions for this to be applicable to F1 students. Actual purpose of this is , if a person has graduated at a wrong time and the company is not able to apply for H1B, in that case the OPT is extended. In this context the student has added advantage, as OPT is extended and the money earned during the OPT is not taxed.. so you will save a lot….
So, now you can graduate at any time and be tension free of the H1B , as long as some company is ready to apply for your H1B.
So, maybe there is no catch in here as far as I can see.. but donna.. these US rules always come with a catch ..
njoy your OPT !
