Hello! I'm also attending UIUC come Fall 2010. I come from Singapore, which is, well... Rather far from C-U as far as India is. I've been admitted into the M.S. program at CEE, unfortunately without funding, going to bump it up to PhD while banging on various professors' doors for RAs of some sort. I'm excited about going abroad, even though UIUC was my 3rd choice (applied for both Berkeley and Stanford and was characteristically rejected). Any dudes from CEE out there?
Joel