An Extraordinary Year

It’s been exactly one year since I came to the United States. An extraordinary experience that changed my life, more than I have ever thought it would be. Studying in IIT and living here changed a lot about me, but at the same time it allowed me to discover more about myself and what I…

IIT Alumni and Faculty – paying it forward

Through my summer internship at Cambium Networks, and while working with Motorola Solutions for almost half of my time, I have met many IIT Alumni here and there. My mentor introduced me to a lot of engineers and managers who were IIT undergrad or grad students. He himself was an IIT grad student when he…

Chicago Tribune: Preserving Syria’s Intellectual capital

A man stands in the debris after an explosion near Aleppo University in embattled Aleppo, Syria, on Jan. 15. (Getty-AFP photo / January 15, 2013) By Allan E. Goodman and Mark A. Angelson July 5, 2013 With the death toll in Syria passing 100,000, the country’s bloody conflict has been much in the news. But…

Syria… The country that will never die

Ten months ago, I had to leave my country Syria and come to the US to complete my studies. If it wasn’t for the situation there, I think it wouldn’t have been that hard but the feeling that I don’t know when I will be able to go back made everything harder and harder. Too…

The American Vigil

I know that the following lines talking about American martyrs might sound weird since I am a Syrian student writing them and I have tens of thousands of martyrs in my country that I can mourn, but the thing is I am a human being in the first place. When I first heard about the…