Career Pathways

You probably do not wake up thinking about car wrecks or hospital bills. But if you drive, bike, ride a scooter, or even walk around Brentwood, injury law is closer…

Late at night, when campus gets quiet and the library hum drops, it is strange what your brain locks onto. For me, it was this simple, slightly uncomfortable thought: if…

I remember walking past a random off-campus house and thinking, "Why does this tiny yard look better than half the businesses downtown?" That was the moment it hit me that…

Sometimes it feels like the startup world keeps repeating the same story: the loudest voices get funded, and those voices are usually not young women. So what chance does a…

I remember sitting in a dorm lounge at 1:30 a.m., staring at a half-melted power strip and thinking, "This is how my startup dies, not with a funding rejection, but…

I remember walking out of an interview thinking, "If this place is so great, why did everyone look exhausted at 10 a.m.?" That was the moment I realized the real…

Most student founders I know expect stress from exams, funding, or maybe a co-founder fight. But not from a teammate quietly stealing cash or gear from the startup they are…

I was walking past a construction site near campus one evening and realized the site felt more like a startup lab than a building project. People were coordinating, fixing problems…

I had this weird late night moment staring at my laptop and thinking: "If my part-time job can be partly done by a script, how safe is anyone's job, really?"…

I was walking back from a late meeting at the campus accelerator when it hit me: most student founders obsess over pitch decks, but almost no one thinks about who…