Meet Alex, a quirky computer science major at the University of Waterloo. Known for their disheveled hair and collection of retro video game T-shirts, Alex believes that long coding sessions are the secret to great software development—preferably done in the comfort of their messy room. With a passion for hackathons and a flair for creative problem-solving, Alex often goes days without a shower while immersed in coding projects, claiming that the fewer distractions, the better the code flows.