Packing Light: How to Live Out of a Carry-On for a Semester
Packing Light: How to Live Out of a Carry-On for a Semester
I remember staring at my suitcase the night before leaving for exchange and thinking: "There is no way my entire semester fits in here." Then I realized half of what…
The Best Entry-Level Jobs for Non-Technical Majors
The Best Entry-Level Jobs for Non-Technical Majors
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…
Green Tech on Campus: Innovations Saving the Planet
Green Tech on Campus: Innovations Saving the Planet
Last semester I was sitting in a 9 a.m. lecture, half awake, watching someone plug a laptop into a wall socket that was powered by rooftop solar. I realized the…
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…
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…