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• A Practical Guide to an EPFL Exchange: Funding, Housing, and Getting the Most Out of Lausanne2026-08-09

  How to stack four scholarships, beat the FMEL housing queue, pick courses that actually get recognised, and turn the research project into real work.

• Six Months at UC Irvine: An Honest Guide to the Balsells Fellowship2026-08-05

  How the Balsells Fellowship actually works — finding a mentor, the visa sequencing trap, what it pays, what it costs, and the parts nobody warns you about.

• Why Voice2026-07-30

  Humans ran on voice for a hundred thousand years; screens got the last fifty. On my mission to make interfaces disappear.