A Head Start

It says that a picture tells a thousand words, but it never can replace the true feeling of living "in" the picture. Ever since I was a kid all I got to know about the West specially Europe was from english literatures and geography books those were taught in school and some from the travel documentaries shown on TV. A dream was always there, a dream to go beyond the borders of the continent I was born in and migrate to the most culturally diversified continent, Europe.

I was born in a country called Bangladesh. A small land situated in South Asia and bounded by the borders of India, flanked by some area of Burma due east. A country with a population of almost 150 million having a population density of approximately 1000 people per square kilometer. The daily chaotic life and the rush hour traffic is enough to diminish the hopes and desires to live for one more day, let alone the desire to dream about one's future. Regardless of all these negatives thousands of us manage to complete formal education and migrate to a better land for higher education and a better life.

Once the primary selection for higher education used to be in universities of  US, UK, Canada or Australia. The students always had chosen the English speaking countries even though they were aware of the availability of better quality education in Europe. They could never choose Europe because the mode of language of communication in the institutions of Europe used to be the local language of the respective countries. Revolution occurred when several European universities have decided to introduce English medium Master program. Since then thousands of students have started to take admission in the European universities - US, UK, Canada and Australia were then accompanied by Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. Globalization took one step forward and so did I, with my decision to come to Europe for higher education. My dream of migration to Europe finally realized.