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Getting ready to leave and settling in abroad: packing, banking, SIM, accommodation and the first weeks.
The honest advice on accommodation is to book only temporary, verified housing before you arrive, and to find your permanent place after you land and can see it. Never wire a deposit…
A local number is the first thing you need abroad, because your bank, your university portal, your accommodation and every app want a number to send a code to, and your Indian…
Opening a bank account abroad is one of the first things you must do and one of the most circular, because the account often needs an address, the address sometimes needs an…
Canada’s packing challenge is the winter, which in most student cities is genuinely harsh, minus twenty and colder, in a way no Indian sweater prepares you for. The honest advice is counterintuitive:…
Germany has two packing quirks that catch Indian students out. First, real winters, in most of the country the cold is proper, not the mild damp of the UK, so warm clothing…
Packing for the UK is easier than for the US in one way and harder in another. Easier because the UK is small, everything is a short delivery away, and Indian groceries…
The honest packing list for a student flying to the USA is short, because your real constraint is not what you want to bring, it is weight. Most airlines give you two…
A pre-departure checklist is not a packing list. It is a sequence of things that must happen in the right order in the two months before you fly, and the ones people…
