The flight landed at the
Willard airport which is owned by University of Illinois (UC). Yes, this is one of the few
universities which has an airport of its own. The university has an aviation
institute associated with this airport.
Being one of the oldest universities in America, UIUC has many historic places and buildings. One is the Morrow Plots formed in 1876. This is the oldest continually used experimental crop fields in America and second oldest in the world. It is said that when the university planned to construct the library near the plots, it was built underground to get sunlight for the crops. This place is that much important for the university. The tour guide, who leads the new students and parents through the campus, says, “It’s rumored that if you trespass the Morrow Plots, you’ll be expelled from the university.”
They publish an independent student newspaper, The Daily Illini since 1871. One university publishes a daily newspaper with a minimum of 12 pages and it looks like any other newspapers on stand, for a century and a half! The paper has a long history of producing many of the country’s most influential journalists and media persons. Whenever I see that paper I ask myself, “Is it possible for my home university to publish at least a monthly newspaper? Will it ever happen?”
Being one of the oldest universities in America, UIUC has many historic places and buildings. One is the Morrow Plots formed in 1876. This is the oldest continually used experimental crop fields in America and second oldest in the world. It is said that when the university planned to construct the library near the plots, it was built underground to get sunlight for the crops. This place is that much important for the university. The tour guide, who leads the new students and parents through the campus, says, “It’s rumored that if you trespass the Morrow Plots, you’ll be expelled from the university.”
They publish an independent student newspaper, The Daily Illini since 1871. One university publishes a daily newspaper with a minimum of 12 pages and it looks like any other newspapers on stand, for a century and a half! The paper has a long history of producing many of the country’s most influential journalists and media persons. Whenever I see that paper I ask myself, “Is it possible for my home university to publish at least a monthly newspaper? Will it ever happen?”
John Bardeen was with this University,
who won the Nobel Prize twice; for inventing transistor and for the
idea of Superconductivity. It is interesting to see the importance
they give to the department where he worked during that period.
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The engineering library has a beautiful courtyard. I saw a gentleman sitting outside the library lost in reading a book. But when reached closer I realized that it was a statue. I was curious to know what he was reading. It was The Future: A Broader Agenda for Computer Science & Engineering.
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