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…
Last week I was finishing a group project at 1 a.m. and someone joked, "What if work was only four days a week when we graduate?" I laughed, then realized…
Last week I was in a late-night group chat that somehow turned into a debate about whether a Google certificate can "replace" a degree. Half the people were sending salary…
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 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 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 blank Word doc at 1:37 a.m., trying to write my resume, when my brain suddenly screamed: "So what exactly are you going to put for…
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 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 I was staring at my CV thinking, "This could belong to literally anyone in my degree." Same bullet points, same verbs, same vague claims about being "passionate." I…