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Life after IIT was destined for the wild wild west. I was going to study my favorite
subject—computer science—from a university called Virginia Tech.
Located in a picturesque town called Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is the state's largest
university, with the most magnificent campus I have ever seen.
While at Virginia Tech, life revolved around apartment-hunting, driving and fixing my
first car, getting involved with the Indian students' association, greeting new students,
driving to the Indian restaurant in Roanoke, snow fights, missing lectures, and
occasionally getting involved with research. My area of interest was visualization, and
the topic of my master's thesis was the multidimensional visualization of the design of
NASA's supersonic aircraft called HSCT. I even gave a name to the application I developed:
I called it VizCraft.
Finally the day arrived that every student waits for: graduation day. During my
graduation ceremony, I was greeted with a big surprise and a huge round
of applause. In recognition of my research efforts, I was being honored as the best graduate
student (master's) in the department of computer science. Very few moments in life offer
such pleasant surprises. That day delivered one such surprise to me.
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