Last semester, I watched a campus budget meeting live on YouTube at 1 a.m. and realized I understood maybe 20 percent of what was happening. People were throwing around acronyms,…
I once paid 18 euros for microwave pasta at a "famous" restaurant in Rome. The waiter called me "my friend" five times and I still walked out hungry and annoyed.…
I used to think meditation apps were just soft music, pastel gradients, and people trying to "manifest" better grades instead of actually studying. Then one week before exams, my brain…
I remember staring at my dorm ceiling at 2 a.m., doing the math on my phone calculator and wondering, "Wait, am I burning money on this tiny shared room?" The…
I used to think freelance taxes were this mysterious thing that only "real adults" had to deal with. Then I got my first PayPal payment for a tech blog review…
Last week I was staring at my CV thinking, "This could belong to literally anyone in my degree." Same bullet points, same verbs, same vague claims about being "passionate." I…