Last week at 1:30 a.m., I realized my LinkedIn profile looked like a half-finished group project: no one knew what it was about, and everyone wanted to leave. Then it…
I was walking back from a late seminar, brain fried from a group project, when it hit me: some teams crumble at the first setback, and others somehow get sharper.…
I was staring at the shared kitchen at 1 a.m., surrounded by abandoned air fryers and broken blenders, and realized something strange: nobody could cook, but everyone had gadgets. At…
I was on a glitchy Zoom internship standup when it hit me: we are doing "real work" while my teammate's cat walks across the keyboard. Is this really the future…
I remember staring at my suitcase the night before leaving for exchange and thinking: "There is no way my entire semester fits in here." Then I realized half of what…
Last semester I was sitting in a 300-person lecture, watching half the room secretly on Notion, YouTube, and ChatGPT instead of the slides. At some point I realized: the "classroom"…
I had this thought walking back from a late lab: if students have the least money, least experience, and least time, why do so many of the best startups come…
I was staring at a blank Google Doc at 1:12 a.m., trying to write a cover letter for an internship I did not even really want. Three sentences in, it…
I had this strange moment walking back from a late-night study session: my notes were full of supply-and-demand graphs, but my brain was replaying the shawarma stand outside the library.…
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…