Innovation

I remember staring at a pile of bubble mailers on a dorm room floor at 1:30 a.m. thinking, "If this is what growth looks like, I am not sure I…

I was talking with a student founder who runs a campus startup out of a dorm basement, and he casually mentioned sewer cameras. At first I thought he was joking,…

I was walking past an old rental near campus the other day and noticed something strange: the paint crew outside were all in Chico State hoodies, comparing schedules between classes.…

Some nights, campus feels like a loop of the same white walls, the same flyers, the same lecture halls. Then you walk into a local coffee shop and see a…

I was walking past a student co-op house off Regent Street one night and noticed half the residents crammed onto a tiny, crooked back porch. Everyone was balancing laptops, coffee,…

I was staring at my dorm ceiling one night, listening to the AC run non-stop, and suddenly thought: how much money is literally leaking out through that thin layer between…

I had this odd late night thought walking past a broken fence near campus: why are so many old fences still built and fixed in the same way they were…

I was walking across campus one afternoon, sweat sticking to my backpack straps, when I noticed something strange. Two buildings, same sun, same time of day, but one felt like…

I was walking past a house in Calgary with half its shingles stacked in the driveway and a crew yelling up and down ladders, and I caught myself thinking: this…