Student Lifestyle

I remember looking around a campus pitch competition one night and realizing something strange. Almost every finalist wore some kind of standout jewelry, but hardly anyone could name more than…

I was sitting on a worn-out campus balcony one night, staring at a loose railing, and it hit me: if this were a startup product, we would never ship it…

I was working late in a campus studio one night, staring at a half-finished prototype, when someone walked in raving about a local bathroom remodel that had better lighting than…

You know that moment when you move into a rental near campus and the first thing you notice is the floor? Scratched boards, random squeaks, a weird dark patch by…

I remember sitting in a dorm bathroom at midnight, staring at the mirror under those harsh fluorescent lights, thinking, "How do I have a group project, two exams, and three…

Walking into a student rental kitchen at 11:47 pm, laptop under one arm and cold coffee in the other, is a very specific kind of experience. You look around at…

I remember staring at the cracked dorm bathroom mirror one night and thinking, "If this was my own place, I would absolutely fix this." Then it hit me: a lot…

You never really think about how much water your apartment floor can hold until you wake up at 2 a.m. and your sock makes that awful squish sound. In Salt…

I remember sitting in a 9 am lecture, half awake, and noticing that half the row in front of me had edge control jars and silk bonnets sticking out of…

At some point in the semester I realized my entire room looked like the "before" photo on a home makeover show: random hand-me-downs, flatpack pieces, and that one suspicious chair…