Hey there! Little life update. I recently graduated with my Master’s degree in Systems Engineering and Management and started a Software Rotation Program as a Software Systems Engineer at Toyota. (I cannot believe I just said that! It still doesn’t feel real.) In this article, I wanted to share what…

Discover Your Identity and Reclaim Your 5–9 — Before college, I introduced myself based on where I went to high school, where I was planning on going to college, what I was planning on studying, and the clubs or extracurriculars I was involved in. During college, my introduction was based on my school, major, and internship, occasionally adding…

A life lesson from operating systems — For my technical audience, you might know of context switching as the mechanism in OS that allows multiple processes to use a single CPU. Context switching stores the status of the ongoing process so that the process can be reloaded from the same point from where it was stopped. Specifically…

The Concept of Consistency and Intensity Explained Through Oreos — I know many of us can easily eat half a packet of Oreos (one whole column) and would have no problem doing so as well….until that stomach ache starts and you wish you would’ve stopped about 4 or 5 cookies in. This is what my mom would always advise me…

Tips and Tricks on How to Stay Organized and Productive — Since the dawn of time, or at least from my earliest recollections, I have been hailed as a “great student” by those around me. My peers often viewed me as the epitome of intelligence. However, I knew better. I never felt like I was better than anyone, or like I…

How Your Everyday Tasks Are Priming Your Mindset — Imagine you’re walking down a path when suddenly someone approaches you and hands you a warm drink to hold and asks you to assess their personality traits (weird, I know, but stick with me). Chances are you would use “warmer” personality descriptors than someone who had held an iced drink. …

From Founding to Winning: Tips and Tricks I Think Helped — For those that don’t know, during my undergraduate experience, I was heavily involved in campus organizations, particularly for women in stem initiatives, and that is exactly what led to me being on the founding team of UTD’s first ever all female, non-binary uniting hackathon, WEHack! With the first iteration being…

It’s honestly a classic cycle and one that makes very little sense. Obviously before your first job you will have no experience or at least relevant experience…..which is why you want the job..duh. As a mentor to many of my peers and someone that loves sharing advice (yes, that’s a…

Surprising Lessons We Can All Learn from The Big Bang Theory’s Resident Genius — Who would have thought that a socially awkward, obsessive-compulsive physicist with a penchant (yes, I looked this word up just for this article) for Star Trek and cardboard cutouts of his heroes could teach us so much about life? …