Last week I was staring at my laptop at 1:30 a.m., switching between LinkedIn, a half-finished Notion page, and yet another "portfolio builder" template. Then it hit me: if my…
The first time I crashed on a stranger's couch in another country, my mom sent me a 500-word warning on WhatsApp. I still went. But on the bus there, I…
I realized during a late lab session that the whiteboard in front of me felt way more intimidating than my actual code. No syntax highlighting. No autocomplete. Just me, a…
I was staring at my laptop at 1:37 a.m., surrounded by laundry, snack wrappers, and three half-dead plants, and my brain just refused to work. It felt like my room…
I remember staring at a half-broken prototype at 4:12 a.m., blinking harder than my laptop fan. At that point, I was not building an app; I was bargaining with my…
Last Sunday I was just staring at my laptop, not working, not relaxing, just... buffering. My to-do list for the week was open in one tab, memes in another, and…
I was staring at the shower wall at 1 a.m. when it hit me: I have no idea whose hair this is, and that is terrifying. Shared bathrooms are like…
I had this weird moment walking back from a campus event: how can a room be full of people and still feel exhausting? My brain felt like it had 10…
Last week at 1:30 a.m., somewhere between debugging a nasty bug and reheating leftover noodles, I realized something strange: the smartest coder in my class keeps getting rejected from internships.…
I was staring at my Notion dashboard at 1:13 a.m. when it hit me: every single thing I "enjoyed" had a column for revenue potential. Even my reading list had…