Category Archives: UIUC

Illini Memories

By nistha | Published: May 13, 2010
QUAD win­ter 2008, orig­i­nally uploaded by ?DouA?. I just real­ized today it’s been exactly 3 years since I grad­u­ated at UIUC. The tas­sel, the com­mence­ment cer­e­mony, the crazy pho­to­shoot and the last friends’ din­ner — it’s all com­ing back. I don’t think I’ll ever ever ever for­get dear old Urbana Cham­paign I loved my friends [...]
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Igloo at Siebel Center, UIUC

By nistha | Published: February 7, 2010
In the shiv­er­ing win­ters of Illi­nois, what can one do with snow apart from hat­ing it? I liked the responses from UIUC stu­dents Here’s the detailed updates of Igloo mak­ing in Siebel Cen­tre back­yard, the pic­tures bring a load­full of mem­o­ries. Another news arti­cle here. Sev­eral stu­dents from ECE, Com­puter Sci­ence, and other Illi­nois depart­ments [...]
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The tassel’s worth the hassle

By nistha | Published: May 20, 2007
Two things hap­pen simul­ta­ne­ously as we age: work­ing mem­ory capac­ity declines and expe­ri­ence accu­mu­lates. These two forces work­ing in oppo­site direc­tion define the sen­si­bil­ity of a per­son. As some­one has said, edu­ca­tion is not so much about learn­ing as it is about unlearn­ing and relearn­ing. We came out of the school as the schol­ars enthu­si­as­tic [...]
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