I've never been good at just one thing. For a long time, I thought that was the problem.

So many people around me seemed to have it figured out — one major, one career path, one clear direction. I did everything right: studied CS and Business at UNC Chapel Hill, had internships, studied abroad — but I could never shake the feeling that there was something more. Every time I tried to narrow, the options multiplied.

But looking back, all of my memories have never been rooted in the things I was doing — they've been rooted in the people I was doing them with. The common thread has always been community.

In 5th grade I fell in love with basketball, not because of the sport, but because of the team. In college I started a computer science fraternity because I wanted engineering friendships to be more than just sitting next to someone in lecture. After college, I moved to Thailand and lived at a gym where I learned Muay Thai — ate, slept, and trained with the same people for six months. And then I ended up in New York, at the coolest creative coworking space in the world, called Verci, building alongside people who make me want to become better every single day.

None of these experiences would've been valuable without the communities around them.

That's what led to @option.bloom — my personal brand and online community where I document, build, and share everything I'm working on. The name comes from the concept of Option Rot: the idea that if you don't commit to one path, your options start decaying. I decided to flip that. Instead of letting my options rot, I'd make them bloom — pursuing everything, exploring every idea, and trusting that the through-line would reveal itself, and grounding all of it in community.

Currently, I'm a software engineer at Nike building dashboards and data pipelines.

I'm pursuing my M.S. in CS at Georgia Tech with a focus on real-world AI applications.

I'm building consumer apps and tools that help people use technology and data to actually make their lives better.

I'm hosting events to connect brilliant minds and ideas.

And I'm creating content to share my story, show other girls that you can do more than just one thing, and build an online community of others who think the same way.

If any of this resonated with you — whether you want to host together, build together, create together, join my events, tap into the network, or even just grab coffee — reach out! Because the whole point is that none of this is meant to be done alone :)