Meet Alex, a second-year engineering student at the University of Waterloo with an insatiable curiosity for computer architecture. Growing up fascinated by how things work, Alex transformed a childhood passion for Legos into a knack for building complex circuits and designing microprocessors. Always pushing boundaries, Alex spends weekends experimenting with side projects—like assembling a RISC-V architecture from scratch—while dabbling in programming contests and hackathons, hoping to one day innovate in the tech industry.