Hackathons: Are They Worth the Sleep Deprivation?
Hackathons: Are They Worth the Sleep Deprivation?
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…
Gap Years on Resumes: How to Explain the Employment Gap
Gap Years on Resumes: How to Explain the Employment Gap
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…
Handling Workplace Conflict as the Youngest Person in the Room
Handling Workplace Conflict as the Youngest Person in the Room
At some point between a group project meltdown and my first actual job, I realized something strange: adults do not magically know how to handle conflict. They just look more…
5 Ed-Tech Trends That Are Replacing Traditional Classrooms
5 Ed-Tech Trends That Are Replacing Traditional Classrooms
Last semester I was sitting in a 300-person lecture, watching half the room secretly on Notion, YouTube, and ChatGPT instead of the slides. At some point I realized: the "classroom"…
Why Students Make the Best Founders (And Why They Fail)
Why Students Make the Best Founders (And Why They Fail)
I had this thought walking back from a late lab: if students have the least money, least experience, and least time, why do so many of the best startups come…
Pitch Deck Essentials: How to Sell Your Idea in 3 Minutes
Pitch Deck Essentials: How to Sell Your Idea in 3 Minutes
I remember watching a friend pitch at a campus startup competition and realizing something brutal: nobody cared about his 20-slide deck. They cared about the 2 minutes where he was…
The 'Sunday Scaries': How to Beat Pre-Week Anxiety
The ‘Sunday Scaries’: How to Beat Pre-Week Anxiety
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…
Cleaning Hacks: How to Keep a Shared Bathroom Sanitary
Cleaning Hacks: How to Keep a Shared Bathroom Sanitary
I was staring at the shower wall at 1 a.m. when it hit me: I have no idea whose hair this is, and that is terrifying. Shared bathrooms are like…
Voluntourism: How to Travel Ethically
Voluntourism: How to Travel Ethically
I was scrolling through cheap volunteer trips at 2 a.m. when it hit me: why are strangers on the internet offering me a chance to "save a village" for less…
Bootstrapping vs. VC Funding: A Guide for Student Entrepreneurs
Bootstrapping vs. VC Funding: A Guide for Student Entrepreneurs
At around 2 a.m. in the library, I realized the wildest thing: two people can be building almost the same startup, but their lives look completely different based on one…