After several high-stakes responsible-tech applications and helping my daughters through college applications, I finally took a Monday off. Sauna. Cold plunge. Steam. Massage. Except…everywhere the blue light from screens stole the stillness. Signs on the
The Toll of Continuous (and Ineffective) Therapy on a Family For over five years, behavior therapists, counselors, and social workers came into our home 3 to 5 hours at a time, five days a week.
From WhatsApp to TikTok, young people share how cyberbullying impacts them and the fixes they believe in. Cyberbullying is one of the most pressing challenges facing young people today. To better understand its impact and
Precious OjoInsights from 160 Young People Our lives are more online than ever and while digital spaces connect us, they also expose young people to toxic interactions that can leave long-term scars. To better understand
I get why some people roll their eyes at yet another adult talking about phones. So let’s start with music, not school. Artists from Adele to Bob Dylan have tried “no-phone” shows, and Sabrina Carpenter
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 of the most widely used tools for supercomputing. Translation: I was helping CPUs and GPUs “text” each other more efficiently, the way iPhones and Androids don’t always play nice in group chats. It was confusing at first — alphabet soup acronyms, debugging crashes, navigating huge codebases — but slowly, it turned into one of the most rewarding learning curves I’ve ever had.
What surprised me most is that research isn’t about already knowing everything. It’s about asking questions, making mistakes, and bringing your own perspective — even my ballet background ended up helping me stand out. I still don’t know if I’ll go into academia or industry, but I know this: research is less about having answers and more about being willing to look for them.
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
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
Breathing exercises my opp. Hello friends, welcome back to the Anxiety talk show. Just a few days ago, in my AP Psychology class, my teacher introduced us to positive affirmations. They’re part of the self-affirmation
So a while ago in August, I went to SCDD’s San Diego Regional Youth Leadership Forum. It was pretty nice going there, there was lots of food, and the inspiring speakers like Toni Saia and Otto Lana talking
When Netflix recommends your next favorite show or when your email filters out spam, that’s machine learning at work. Machine learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence that allows computers to learn from data and make decisions without being explicitly programmed. Instead of humans writing every rule, the computer figures out patterns itself and improves as it sees more examples.
I hired a newbie handyman to replace five faucet fixtures. He and I both assumed he knew what he was doing. Nothing leaked before. That night, every sink he touched started dripping. Three callbacks and
