A New Life in Reno

"Summary by Important Sentences" Tue 27 3:55 am alarm: "BEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!" me: "mmmmhhhhhh" 4:25 am On the train to Venice (Mestre, a really nice place, raccomanded) 6:05 am On the train to Florence 8:30 am officer: "what time do you have the visit?" me: "9:45 sir" officer: "come back when it's the right time! and back off please" 9:45 am desk girl: "oooh you are going to Reno!? Nice place!" me: "really? Have you ever been to?" desk girl: "no" 9:50 am consulate: "why are you going to the us? russian girl before me: "tourism" consulate: "and where exactly?" russian girl before me: "Las Vegas" consulate: "do you have proof of your work?" russian girl before me: "here is a letter" consulate: "sorry, you need more that this. visa rejected. have a nice day." me: "mmh, cheering" 9:58 am c...

It is incredible how fast I received my I-20, just 2 days! Can you belive it!? Eventually, on Tuesday 27, I'll go to Florence for my visa interview. Here is the list of everything that you need to carry for an F1: Confirmation page of the DS-160 form. Valid passport. Form DS-2019 in original issued by the school, duly completed, dated and signed. SEVIS payment receipt. Satisfactory financial documentation that demonstrates the economic availability to pay the costs of study and stay during the entire period of study in the United States. Possible flight date: 3 September

All right buddies! Here it is. New life, new blog! It has been an extremely long process.  And it is not even over yet! BUT good news: yesterday [08/19/2019] I finally signed the contract! Apparently, the biggest delay was due to fundings that were not available until one month ago or so (for now, let's forget about the fact that I was wrong to send some documents to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR)). Can you image a longer application procedure?! But wait, let's try to summarize this path of bureaucratic suffering from the dawn of prehistory: UAVs And More The very first email ever sent to Dr. K dates back to Wed, 13 Jun 2018, 14:24 . At that time I was having some  difficulties  in my project at work and I was planing to quit. This was one of the main reasons why I started to think about a phd: too young to stop studying, not old enough to start working! "UAVs And More" was the subject of the email I sent to get some tips from someone from a...