We woke up today to a very unfortunate news from the main IIT campus, where most of us reside, that brought us great sadness. The recent acts of violence that have been happening around our campus and in the Bronzeville neighborhood remind us of the ongoing crisis in Syria where violence became a daily nightmare…
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Presenting “Hope” at USF
I just came back from inspiring 34 students at the University at St. Francis in Joliet, I feel proud of myself and of the Syrian Students at IIT. I didn’t prepare a motivational speech; to be honest I didn’t have any speech prepared at all. I was invited to join their International culture week along…
Twenty-Six lives
Couple weeks ago I finished my first semester studying in the United States after transferring from my home country Syria. Coming to Chicago to study architecture at Illinois Institute of technology was a life changing experience for me, an experience that I have never thought I would have. This opportunity, that was given to me…
The Big Event
It was a beautiful sunny morning when we set off to the Eden Place today. We were one of the many groups volunteering at the IIT fifth annual big event and were excited to see how the rest of the day is going to be like. When we first got there, we had no idea…
The Hackathon !
A large number of Syrian students at IIT are into the technology field. So when we first heard about the Monkey Bars Hackathon, we thought it would be a great idea to form a team to represent the Syrians. The Hackathon is a competition where developers work in groups for 25 hours tocome up with…
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…
April showers bring May’s flowers
It was rainy today with thunder and lightning in Chicago. The very loud thunder was really scary, it made one of my friends today thinking that it’s a blast sound like what happened a few days ago in Boston! He never thought that a thunder might sound like a blast before, however, what happened in…
Syrian Students for a better future 