I WISH MY PARENTS HAD PAID ATTENTION TO NOTICE THAT I WAS BEEN BODY SHAMED. Or maybe they did, but just didn’t care or didn’t think it was important.

Research in College: 6 Inspiring Lessons I Learned

What does “college research” actually mean? Before this summer, I thought it was just a buzzword — something tour guides bragged about and brochures plastered across glossy photos. Then I spent ten weeks at Argonne National Lab doing high-performance computing research, and it clicked. I worked on integrating AMD’s GPU library (RCCL) into MPICH, one…

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5 Things I’ve Learned in the Impact Fellowship

For those of you who don’t know, I’m in curaJOY’s impact fellowship. We are creating an annotated data set, algorithm, and intervention system for cyberbullying. It will be the first one of its kind made 100% by gen z. Our hope is that with our lived experience of the modern world, we will be able…

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From Passive Consumers to Active Shapers: Technology’s Second Chance

We’ve made so much “progress” that we can now order food, learn, and work without ever seeing another person. But is that really true progress or just convenience that erodes our humanity and quality of life? We’ve traded a handful of close friends for thousands of followers—and feel lonelier than ever. We’ve gone from exploring…

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