Something about Chico

There is Something about Chico that is always mystic to me. Are you thinking why it would be so? To give you a background I did my Masters in Computer Science in California State University, Chico. I was in Chico between 2000 and 2002, during my year and half stay in Chico I developed a bonding with the place and people. I sometimes wonder at myself for developing such a bond with a place which is thousands of miles away from my home (you might have already guessed from my name, I am from India). But yet I would call Chico my home town.

As I am used to analyzing my self ,(That’s one of the many side effects of being a programmer that you tend to draw a “State Diagram” for everything and seldom realize there are things beyond logic) . I tred looking for the reason behind the feeling that many who have studied or stayed at Chico share. Here are few snapshots from the Logs that I found after inserting few debug statements in my Kernel.

Chico is a small University Town. It has a very personal touch to it that very few cities have. People here are very friendly and helpful, you get a “Hey”, a “What’s up” or a warm smile as you pass thru the calm streets flanked with lush green vegetation. A City of few thousand inhabitants out of which one third might be students. It has a healthy mix of people from various nationalities, race and culture as any University town might aspire to have.

The University is small in terms of its real estate but has no dearth of courses and good professors, I will be writing more on that in my future blogs.

The laid back attitude of the town with it’s pleasant persona still unpolluted from the waves of urbanization gives you a sense of assurance about the existence of sanity in today world, But yet this town is not backward in any sense. The University is central to this town and boasts one of the best infrastructures that you would find in any University with latest research and lab facilities. This Synergetic coexistence of the new and the old, technology and serenity, economic growth and elegance of the past makes Chico a rare City in today’s context.

If you want to know more about The University check out www.csuchico.edu