Real stories from building things — what worked, what didn't, and what I learned from both.
Honest admission: before March 17th, I thought of Panasonic as a consumer electronics brand. TVs, cameras, batteries. I had no idea how deep the B2B side ran — until I got off at Newark Penn Station,...
We submitted Knight Wallet to Rutgers TechStart thinking we had a credentials problem to solve. By the end of the day, I realized we'd actually been building something much more personal to peopl...
PennApps is one of the oldest collegiate hackathons in the country, run out of UPenn. Walking in knowing that matters — the talent density in that room is real, and you feel it fast. At 2 AM, four h...
For my Data Science capstone, my team tried to predict how long an NBA player's career would last using their rookie-year stats. It seemed straightforward. It wasn't. Our first model was overconfide...
Six hours into the hackathon, our team had nothing. Not "nothing good" — just nothing. We'd been throwing ideas at a whiteboard that weren't sticking, everyone half-convinced we'd already lost before...