I’m 25, born and raised along the California coast — the kind of place where fog rolls in every morning and tech dreams hang in the air like salt spray. I spent a few years working odd IT and support jobs after high school, nothing glamorous, but enough to realize I had a talent for solving problems most people didn’t even know existed.

This year, I finally decided to take the leap and move across the country to start my Computer Science degree. New campus, new city, new people — all a little overwhelming, but I adapt fast. I’m pretty smart, analytical, and quietly competitive, the type who actually enjoys late-night debugging sessions and probably drinks too much coffee for someone who claims to be “low-stress.”

I didn’t come here to party or reinvent myself. I came to level up — to get the degree, build something that matters, and see what kind of future I can carve out. Everything else — friends, drama, adventures — that’ll come on its own.