I was staring at my laptop at 1:43 a.m., feeling weirdly wired but also exhausted, when I realized the only things awake in my room were me and my cold,…
I was halfway through a group project slide deck when it hit me: if this turned into a real startup, who would actually own it? Me, my team, or the…
I remember staring at my laptop at 2 a.m., firing off application number 63 and thinking: "Maybe this one will finally get a reply." Two weeks later, my inbox looked…
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 had this moment in the library where someone said, "If you are not CS or engineering, good luck getting a decent job," and the whole table just nodded. I…
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…