I really cherish my days at IIT – the friends you make for life – the memories from bicycling all over campus, the cheese toast at Quark the SP coffee at Tarams, the editing of various campus newspapers, the no water and power during cyclones, and yes, the classes too.  Even the bad times were always fun!  I went on to do a Masters at Syracuse and PhD at Harvard based on the foundation at IIT.  Even in my work now at the World Bank for the past 18 years working on environment and water resources, I try to help make connections of governments with academia so that both institutions can benefit.  Although just a small token of appreciation, I thought that this contribution, stimulated by my attending the silver jubilee function a few months back for my 1988 batch, will be useful to make part of the dreams I heard there come true.