When Microsoft announced the end-of-life date for Windows 10, it didn’t seem like an upgrade announcement in the slightest bit. October 2025: move to Windows 11 or receive no more updates or patches. You upgrade anyway, and it’s instant regret. Your system uses up more RAM, the Explorer menu cannot...

Some nights you just want to relax, put on your favorite artist, and zone out. Then suddenly one side of your Bluetooth earphones shuts off. You know you charged them a couple of hours ago, so why is this happening? Now you are stuck listening to music from only one...

The most important thing you can do for yourself is sleep. And if you can’t sleep, if your mind is buzzing when it should be winding down, then it might just be time to clean your room. Seriously. Just look around. The air might feel heavier not because of running...

These days it feels like many websites are asking for my email and phone number before I can even blink. I treat both like valuables, not giveaways. My inbox and phone line are private spaces, and I protect them with the same care I give to my bank account. It...

Well, you can’t spell stressed without desserts… but really, just look at the word “desserts” backwards. That kind of sums up how stress has looked in my life—sometimes backwards, sometimes semi-manageable, sometimes completely out of control. A Drive Through University Campus I remember sometime in fall of 2019, my sister...

Being a Graduate Teaching Assistant is both chill and chaotic. Some days, you’re sipping coffee in a half-empty lab waiting for students who never show up. Other days, you’re knee-deep in final exams wondering why some students don’t seem to know how a semaphore works. It’s a mixed bag, but...

“What motivates you?” That’s often the first question you hear in a behavioral interview. But is it really the right one? Motivation lights the candle. It’s bright, it’s warm—but it’s fleeting. Put a jar over that candle, deprive it of oxygen, and it burns out quickly. Discipline is what keeps...

Like Janus, the Roman god with two faces, I find myself looking both backward and forward. 2023 was a year of endings and beginnings, a pivot point where excitement tangled with stress, farewells blurred with new starts, and reflection slowly gave way to resilience. Senior Year Being a senior was...

The Jacquard loom may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about modern computing, but it’s more than just a relic of textile history. In fact, the Jacquard loom set the stage for a number of key computing concepts that we still use today, from...

There’s this little field that shows up everywhere: networking events, conference badges, job applications, LinkedIn profiles. “Personal Website.” Most people leave it blank. But maybe they shouldn’t. In my academic years, I’ve hosted a personal web page through my university’s web server, through Github Pages, and through other third-party vendors,...