I had this weird 1 a.m. moment where I checked my bank balance, thought about my weekend plans, and realized those two things did not agree with each other at…
I was halfway through a 9 pm problem set when it hit me: I am doing all this work for grades, but zero for money. Then I opened a tab,…
I still remember refreshing my email outside the library, praying for that subject line to say "Congratulations". It did not. It said "We regret to inform you", and suddenly my…
I was scrolling LinkedIn during a boring lecture when it hit me: there are people from my own campus working at almost every company I daydream about. Same logo on…
Last semester I realized I had spent 40 minutes color-coding a habit tracker and exactly 0 minutes doing the reading I made the tracker for. That was my first real…
Last semester I realized my "home office" was just my bed, a laptop, and a half-dead plant judging me from the windowsill. My back hurt, my focus was gone, and…
Last semester I was sitting in a 9 am lecture, half awake, when I realized something weird: everyone around me had a "million-dollar idea," but none of us had actual…
I was halfway through a late-night group project when I caught myself thinking: "What if this slides deck was actually a cap table?" The jump from half-finished coursework to a…
I was scrolling through photos from an exchange semester and realized half my favorite memories were not parties or tourist spots, but some random workshop on community energy in a…
I was staring at my laptop at 2:47 a.m., rereading the same sentence for the fifth time, and suddenly realized: I was not tired, I was empty. Not sleep-deprived, not…