At this point on my MIT academic path, I began to accept what I could do with the privilege of being at an institution with high visibility. Rather than feeling like I was giving up on my idealism of working on technology to escape painful realities, I could see how my childhood passions could live alongside my solidifying purpose to research harmful discrimination in technology. My life trajectory and educational opportunities were starting to make more sense to me. I felt emboldened to ask even more uncomfortable questions about the machines that once enamored me.
