<p>merc : I also passed 12th last year, so he must be with me but maybe in different batch.....</p>
<p>shikhar : My grandparents are also superstitious.... They named my father - suraj... me-ravi... both mean "sun" :D</p>
<p>MODS : Is this the longest thread ever on CC? pls. confirm ...... ;)</p>
<p>haha, you want to change your name? messy :p yeah you get an affidavit and get records changed, and if you're old (you are) you put out an ad in the papers. i think.</p>
<p>i became shikhar in 7th</p>
<p>hey so - nice - we can suggest names for you! awesome. maybe you have it all figured out tho, which would be sad.</p>
<p>no ravi those stupid OR threads... then there's the ED lounge on the pton board, which is longer. but we're closing in</p>
<p>no...I guess I'll survive with Sucharita :(
And I will make sure that my kids do not have embarrassing names...</p>
<p>Thank u sucharita for ur suggestions,
i will make those changes.</p>
<p>ok sucha...looks like my kids are gonna have decent names after all ;) well my first name IS quite a mouthful anyway - Suryaprakash</p>
<p>sucharita and suryaprakash. cool :) :)</p>
<p>(hehe... all in good humor)</p>
<p>lol. call me either surya or prakash. i hate it combined. ;)</p>
<p>and SP? SP sounds good to me</p>
<p>lol. SP. my last name is a even more of a mouthful</p>
<p>SP??? In my school's lingo, that would be 'Safety Patrol', the bunch of stupid little Class 9 boys who try to keep the traffic under control and fail miserably.</p>
<p>Hrrmmm...doesnt seem too much like callthecops . or should I say suryaprakash...you poor guy. </p>
<p>Anyway, there are several reasons why I hate my name.
1.) Around 20 people in a school of 1800+ can pronounce it properly. Why am I not surprised?
2.) My dad burdened me with the name because he wanted to name me after the heroine in his favorite Bangla novel. So last year i read it and this girl is the most sickening piece of humanity that i have ever come across either in real life or in books. Oh wait- yeah. Shes practically subhuman. Ughhh.</p>
<p>So yeah, here's my resolution. all my kids will have precisely 2 syllable long names. And they'll thank me for it.</p>
<p>Oh no this is getting worse and worse.
Thank God mine is only 3 letters long...</p>
<p>parentny in [thread=26017]this thread[/thread]
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Akshay</p>
<p>"Basically my family can afford ~$60K for my education"</p>
<p>I am sure that not too many Indians living in India can afford this much money for undergrad school admissions. Most of the elite colleges who have endowments tend to admit based on three criterions 1. Extremely wealthy kids like Godrej, Ambanis etc. 2. Very well connected kids like Rahul Gandhi 3. Very Intelligent kids who have made distinctions like CBSE topper etc. Most of elite universities are very well familiar with schooling system in India. If you want to go a lower university, the problem exists that you may have hard time to get a placement job. That is why I came myself to study in USA at a grad level.</p>
<p>If you want to go to a top school, then do an undergrad from a reputed Indian University. Delhi University or even IIMs route is very good. You are far better off doing undergrad from India and then applying for a grad school here.</p>
<p>However, things are changing and you may get a break by multinational and placed in India. Think carefully that if your parents can shell this money then you should apply to a school, which has some reputation in India. Good luck.
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<p>why can't people pronounce your name right? as many syllables as it may be it's pretty pronounceable. or maybe i'm mind-pronouncing it wong :p</p>
<p>and you read a bangla novel?! wah.</p>
<p>hmm...i wonder where i fit in. i wish i could ride on my dad's credentials and position, but i guess it really wont make of a difference. "kanegaonkar" - maharashtrian name...im half marathi and half tamil...cant speak any of them right. </p>
<p>everyone mutilates my name...none of them can write "Surya". they always write something like Suriya, Serria, Sooria, Sirya, or some *****. damn...and i dont wanna even talk abt my last name...</p>
<p>That is what all my mom's friends keep telling me. of course, they also say that the aid is MUCH better at the graduate level. But I talked to someone who said that while all this *might *, undergrads just have a lot more fun :p</p>
<p>hahaha i'm sorry sp :p</p>
<p>but gotta be fun, those times <em>ducks</em></p>
<p>yeah... I was bribed by my dad :p
maybe you're pronouncing it ok- I wouldnt be able to say obviously. The point is there are two distinct ways of saying it, a sanskritized way and a bengali way and people frequently try to use both together. Which ends up sounding very weird.</p>
<p>surya- your mom's Tamil? Mine too.</p>
<p>i'd imagine the bong way is soochareeta. or shoochareeta. hmm?</p>