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Priya M. · '18
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Students rediscover the 1984 Clock Tower murals
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CS F372 · PROF. BALASUBRAMANIAM
Implement the observer pattern in Java. Max 500 lines.
Math Problem Set 8
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Linear transformations & eigenvalues. 10 problems.
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CS '18 this week
Priya Nair was promoted to Staff ML Engineer at Google
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Vikram Singh left Flipkart. Building something quietly in fintech.
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Karan S. published his first book — Systems Thinking in India
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THE STORY /
The long read
CULTURE /
One memory, resurfaced
18 APR 1987
Thirty-nine years ago today, the SU sabotaged the Pilani clock tower at 3:47am and set it back 15 minutes. The following morning, 647 students were late to Prof. Das's quantum mechanics lecture. He let them off. He understood.
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Priya arrived at Pilani in the monsoon of 2014, the last girl out of the Jhunjhunu taxi and the first to find Meera Bhavan's mess. Within a week she had memorised everyone's name. Within a month she had debugged the hostel Wi-Fi.
Neha remembers the night before OS finals — a soap diagram on the bathroom door of process scheduling, still readable weeks later. Amit remembers the 5am sunrises at Shiv Mandir, and being dragged along, and finally understanding. Dr. Sharma remembers — and this is rare from him — the only student in thirty years who made him rewrite a slide.
In every account from that batch there is one recurring line: she was the one you called at 2am. With a bug, or a broken heart, or a professor's feedback that stung. And by 2:30 both were fixed.
What the community knows about her — more than Priya knows about herself — is that the calm she brings into a room is not learned. It is simply what walks in with her. It has been that way since 2014. It will be that way when she is 80.
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"The calmest mind in our batch."
— Amit Desai · CS '18 · roommate, 4 yrs
"She asked the only question that ever made me rewrite a slide."
— Dr. R. Sharma · CS Dept
IN HER OWN WORDS /
From The Interview
Session 04 · April
WHAT PILANI GAVE YOU · 3:42
"I think Pilani gave me the ability to sit with difficulty without panicking. The place breaks you gently — a failed viva here, a 3am assignment there — and what's left is someone who can hold their nerve. I still run on that."
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06Your Oasis '17 slam — do you remember the poem?
07One thing your father (CS '93) told you that still lands.
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3 GENERATIONS OF BITSIANS
"We've been at Pilani since the Mehta halls had no fans."
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September 2015, the OS lab. Priya had been stuck on a mutex for two hours. Rahul, two rows back, said "it's a race condition, not you." She fixed it. They fought about the fix for three years. Then they got married.
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Priya Nair
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"He is the only teacher who ever told me I was wrong in a way that felt like a gift."
Ashwin Balaji
CS '03
"I run a company of 300 engineers. Half of what I know about designing systems came from his 8am compilers class."
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"Napkin diagram sir. 25 years later I still draw on napkins before every decision."
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