On Wednesday, April 12, 2000 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Rajesh Babu Shrestha wrote:

It is still with disbelief that I find myself writing an obituary for
Sanjay Sthapit. I haven't seen Sanjay for a while now and I still
think of him as quietly pursuing his graduate program at UNC, Chapel
Hill. To realize that Sanjay is gone much further away and that we'll
never see him again is indeed difficult to come to terms with.

I met Sanjay in Kathmandu in the summer of 1995 upon finding out that
we were headed to the same place in US, Clark University, for the same undergraduate degree. Over 3 years, Sanjay and I ended up taking many
classes together and worked on joint projects a couple times. I
remember us working several times, along with other fellow Computer
Science students, overnight in the little computer lab in Carlson Hall
-- living on Kit Kat and Coke.

Without exaggeration, Sanjay was one of the smartest people I've
known, not to mention his many talents in music and arts. He was
widely acknowledged as the best programmer among us and the coolest
guy around. Despite his brilliance, Sanjay kept a low-profile, was soft-spoken and was never pretentious.

To be honest, I do not know of many people that were very close to
Sanjay. I wasn't myself either. Sanjay was not the kind of a person
that would utterly impress you when you first meet him and later
disappoint you as you get to know him more. Actually, it was the
contrary -- over time, we admired Sanjay's combination of intelligence
and humility more and more. Secretly, we envied him.

There was a fun side to him as well. Sanjay, in our senior year, dyed
his hair bright blue for a long time. When he finally washed his dye
and got his black hair back, he looked so fresh and we teased him
about how it looked like he had just taken a shower, after months!
Sanjay had a flair for drawing "cartoons", a word he'd find derogative
and would suggest the word "animation" instead.

The sudden news of Sanjay's demise due to a heart-valve infection is
as debilitating as it is shocking. Ever cheerful, graceful and "cool"
through the worst of times, Sanjay was one of a kind. Those of us who
knew him will cherish and enrich our lives with his memories. Many
deep sympathies to his family at this time of tremendous loss.

One of Sanjay's college friends,
rajesh

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