“Winter holidays are here and these students can’t wait to chill out” (WSJ news)

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<p>[Winter</a> holidays are here and these students can't wait to chill out - livemint<a href="note%20that%20this%20story%20has%20three%20web%20pages">/url</a></p>

<p>“Princeton, New Jersey: Sukrit Silas strolls across the Princeton University campus with purpose, these steps to the laboratory familiar by now. But, suddenly, he stops and points out a building that rises above the other ivy covered dormitories and collections of classrooms.</p>

<p>“John Nash and Andrew Wiles sit in there,” he says, a look of pride breaking through the day-to-day routine he has established in almost four months at one of the world’s leading institutions of higher learning.</p>

<p>"Wiles stunned the world in the early 1990s when he announced the proof of Fermat’s theorem, which until then had stumped generations of scholars. Nash, the Nobel Prize winning mathematician for his work on game theory and the inspiration for the Hollywood blockbuster, A Beautiful Mind, is among the many renowned academicians who have called Princeton home.</p>

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<p>This is the fifth part of a multi-part series that the Wall Street Journal is running on the experiences of six Princeton first years from India. A little home-sickness has crept in and they’re adjusting to the workload. It’s a great series for illustrating the lives of first year students at any competitive college. The previous installments are here:</p>

<p>[url=<a href="http://www.livemint.com/2007/11/26212631/Chasing-the-Indian-Education-D.html?atype=tp%5DChasing"&gt;http://www.livemint.com/2007/11/26212631/Chasing-the-Indian-Education-D.html?atype=tp]Chasing&lt;/a> the Indian Education Dream - livemint](<a href="http://www.livemint.com/2007/12/26224954/Winter-holidays-are-here-and-t.html%5DWinter"&gt;http://www.livemint.com/2007/12/26224954/Winter-holidays-are-here-and-t.html) = Introduction</p>

<p>Ivy</a> ambitions: Six Indians walk path to Princeton - livemint = first installment</p>

<p>Four</a> years or forever? Six teens bid farewell to home - livemint = second installment</p>

<p>Away</a> from home, students reinvent selves, yet hang on - livemint = third installment</p>