I still remember refreshing my email outside the library, praying for that subject line to say "Congratulations". It did not. It said "We regret to inform you", and suddenly my…
I caught myself staring at our kitchen bin at 1 a.m. last week, wondering how four students could produce that much trash in 24 hours. It felt less like a…
Last semester I realized I had spent 40 minutes color-coding a habit tracker and exactly 0 minutes doing the reading I made the tracker for. That was my first real…
I used to brag about pulling all-nighters. Then I realized during a 3 p.m. lab that my brain had quietly checked out and left my body on autopilot. So I…
I was staring at my laptop at 2:47 a.m., rereading the same sentence for the fifth time, and suddenly realized: I was not tired, I was empty. Not sleep-deprived, not…
Last week during a brutally long lab, I looked around and thought, "Everyone here actually knows what they are doing. How did I trick my way into this program?" Ten…
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…
I used to think meditation apps were just soft music, pastel gradients, and people trying to "manifest" better grades instead of actually studying. Then one week before exams, my brain…
I used to think freelance taxes were this mysterious thing that only "real adults" had to deal with. Then I got my first PayPal payment for a tech blog review…