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Ok, so this is me...

and this is my story.

Young Golden Boy

TheGolden Boy

Golden Boy Graduate

I used to win everything.
Singing contests. Kung Fu tournaments. Spelling bees.

Adults would smile at me and say, "Your future is bright." And I believed them. I became the "Golden Boy", the kid who always delivered, the one who couldn't fail.

But no one told me what happens when life stops giving you trophies.That part, I had to learn on my own.

TheDreamerActivist

Me, an emotional teen. At 15, I used to see a lot of injustice everywhere, socially and environmental, so I started creating my own social projects.

In less than a year, I helped launch over a dozen social projects. We reached schools, communities, and people who had never been asked what they needed.

I learned that I love making impact, not just talking about it. And that I’m more capable than I ever thought.

TheRejected

At 16, I spent over a year preparing for a 100% scholarship to one of the top universities in Mexico. I gave it everything. And I was rejected.

I didn’t have money to pay the tuition, just a local university and a broken sense of worth.

That rejection shaped me. It taught me that waiting for someone to “choose” me was a trap. So I stopped waiting. I started building spaces, projects, and chances, for others like me.

For the ones who weren’t given permission to dream, but dared to do it anyway.

The Studev Leader

TheStudevLeader

In college, I felt like something was missing. We had talent, but NO space to grow. So I built one.

I created Studevs, a CS community with more than 160 participants, more than 13 hackathons participated, 7 events created, 11 MITACS scholarships, more than 13 awards and a lot of people inspired and powered.

In each face I saw someone who had been waiting for permission to lead, to build, to dream. And somehow, they found that permission in each other.

The International Weirdo

TheInternationalWeirdo

I studied on the other side of the world. I worked and saved money for two years to make it happen, four months in South Korea.

That experience changed me forever. I learned that:

  • Not everyone is like you, and that’s okay.
  • You don’t need to fit in. You can break the mold and build yourself from scratch.
  • Your culture, your education, they’re not cages. You can find your truth and live it freely.
  • Love is the most important thing I have. That’s what I brought back. Not a degree. A new self.
The Impostor Intern

TheImpostorIntern

I was a Mitacs Global Research Intern. I grew up in a culture where we admired people from around the world while quietly feeling inferior, a collective trauma we never named.

During my time abroad, I learned that we are just as valuable, just as capable. That we are unique, and our worth is not something given, it’s something we claim.

The Overcompensating Grad

TheOvercompensatingGrad

As a recent grad, I realized how hard it is to believe you “deserve” to be hired just because you worked hard, and how easy it is to believe you “don’t deserve” it just because you’re hurt.

It hits you after applying to 100 companies and getting only rejections. Identity crisis. Market saturation. Constant comparison. You get all of it.

But maybe, just maybe, it’s not about being chosen. Maybe there’s more than chasing an empty, traditional path. Maybe it’s not about what the world offers us, but about what we can offer the world.