September at a tech school comes with an unmistakable shift in atmosphere. Suddenly, lecture hall attire swaps from oversized hoodies to fancy blazers, library printers churn out stacks of resumes, and the air is thick with elevator pitches practiced under breath.
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Earlier this week, sitting at the kitchen table surrounded by markers, crayons, and colored pencils, my roommate and I took part in, what some would call, a sacred college tradition — drafting the Senior Year Bucket List.
Stepping onto a tech school campus in the fall always brings a familiar mix of energy and quiet reality. Between the smell of fresh syllabus packets, the late-night coding sessions, and lecture halls where you might still count the women in the room on one hand, being here requires a specific kind of resilience.
There is a distinct, unwritten ritual to the first day of classes. You wake up five minutes before your alarm, agonizing over an outfit that says “effortlessly put together” rather than “I just finished track and field lift five minutes ago.”
At the beginning of this school year, I had a plan. I knew what I wanted my schedule to look like, how productive I was going to be, and who I thought I’d become by the end of it.
Walking into a classroom where you’re one of the only women, if not the only one, can feel intimidating before the lecture even begins.
In a groundbreaking move that has left absolutely no one surprised, the university has officially announced the launch of His Stevens, a long-overdue counterpart to Her Stevens that aims to spotlight the deeply underrepresented voices of men everywhere, especially at a school where they make up roughly 70% of the population and 112% of the volume in every lecture hall.
“Sorry, I’ve just been so busy.”
It’s a sentence I say almost automatically every single day in college. Busy with classes.
There’s something about winter semester that makes internship anxiety louder. Maybe it’s the flood of LinkedIn announcements. Maybe it’s the group chat messages about who “heard back.”
Winter in college hits differently. The days are shorter, the weather is colder, and suddenly even the idea of leaving your dorm feels exhausting.