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…
I caught myself the other night staring at a Zoom lecture while my friend sent photos from a coworking space in Chiang Mai. Same degree, same lecture, completely different life…
At around 2 a.m. in the library, I realized the wildest thing: two people can be building almost the same startup, but their lives look completely different based on one…
I was halfway through pretending to revise in the library when I realized something weird: every other table was covered in board games, not laptops. Catan, Wingspan, chess clocks ticking,…
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 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…