Where Should I Be?
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I trace a path from suburban New Jersey to Boston high school to an HBCU then Columbia, scoring AP Chemistry 5 along the way, trying social fits rather than careers. Online communities become the turning points: a coding chatroom that remembers me, #include Discord that helps make my graphs color‑blind friendly, and the Unicode working group that draws me into standard text work. Each place either accepts me or doesn’t, and the ones that welcome contribution keep me returning.
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