I was counted!!

For those of you who don't know, the US is conducting is census this year. Like India, the US also does its census every 10 years, and 2010 is one of that decade. 

So here's the funny part. I just filled out my census! O.o Apparently, EVERYONE is counted, even legal aliens like me. But, in the form, there was no option for me to state that I am not a citizen of the United States. I don't know what that means, but I think I might have just been counted twice in the population of the world (since India did its last census in 2001 and I was counted there. 

Another irony - I'm going to be in India in 2011 when India does her census again. I will be counted there too, and legitimately, because I will be an Indian citizen living in India at that time. I think I just burst my brain trying to think too much about alla this immigration stuff!

Talking about immigration, let me tell you how awful this whole system is here in the US. I can't work off-campus for payment at all. If I have to work off-campus, I have to do it for academic credit. But guess what? American University requires all its students to PAY for receiving academic credit!! I mean, WTF, AU? Why would I want to pay to work? Not only am I not getting any stipend for doing an internship, I have to pay the university an exorbitant amount just so it goes on my record! Money making machines, I tell you!

Let me not get started on their credit-hour policies, 'cause that is a rant of its own!

~Bikram