Virtual Graduation Celebration 2021

Congratulations to all CS graduates on the completion of their Illinois degrees! Join us on May 15 at 12:30pm CDT, to share the moment and connect in chat as we premiere this video celebrating our August 2020, December 2020, and May 2021 graduates!

Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:32 - CS Faculty & Staff Congratulations
1:10 - Dean Rashid Bashir, Grainger Engineering
3:16 - CS Department Head Nancy M. Amato
4:23 - Mahesh Viswanathan, Associate Head for Academics
5:36 - Year in Review
9:38 - Robin Kravets, Director of Graduate Programs
10:46 - Elsa L. Gunter, Director of Undergraduate Programs
12:11 - Greetings from 2021 CS Alumni Award Recipients
12:48 - Michelle Wellens, Director of Communications & Constituent Engagement (Graduation Gift)
13:39 - Nancy M. Amato
14:39 - PhD Graduates
15:32 - MCS Graduates
22:36 - MS Graduates
23:26 - BS in CS Graduates
27:50 - CS + X Graduates
29:34 - Mathematics & CS Graduates
30:52 - Statistics & CS Graduates
32:25 - Best Wishes!
33:49 - Song by CS Professor Indy Gupta

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[joeeverton]

And a song by Indy at the end! Love it!

[beyerch]

As I started this program with Dr. Indy's CS425 course, it is only fitting that he closes out this video. (especially as he performed a very catchy ukulele song about distributed system timestamps during the course!)



Congrats to all of the other graduates and thanks to all of the instructors, teaching assistants, and support staff!

[gayatriramasubramaniyan]

Thank you, UIUC for the wonderful adventure! Hope to visit the campus some day

[IllinoisCDS]

We’ve received a report of at least one person who was about to get charged for shipping for their graduation gift. This is NOT intended – you should not be charged for shipping for your gift. We have filed a report with our vendor. (Unfortunately, this may not get fixed until early during the week of May 17.)

[fuehnix]

I really hope that the department graduations are part of the reinvitation to campus after COVID. As much as I'm sure the faculty tried to make this special, this was a little underwhelming.

Past ceremonies got people like Thomas Siebel to speak, and graduates got to sit with their friends and celebrate something significant in a fitting environment.


Meanwhile, I ate a bagel in my apartment alone while watching this :/