The Girl Who Chased the Sun ☀️⚡

I know I’m crazy. A girl from the slums of Manila dreaming about stars and fusion reactors? “Hilarious,” they said. But there is fire in my veins - the type of fire that kept me warm in cardboard shacks 🏚️ and the type of fire I now study to power civilizations. Let me tell you how I burned my way here.

At 12, I was selling flowers in traffic for pesos while other kids were playing. At 15, I was sleeping in a library studying physics with a flashlight 🔦 until security escorted me out. “Dream smaller,” they said. So, I starved myself to buy a fake college ID 🪪 (shhh!) and snuck into lectures. One professor busted me… but instead of calling the authorities he said it was “the most brilliant fraud he’d ever seen.”

Now?? I’m the Fusion Energy Researcher who hikes active volcanoes 🌋 on the weekends (“it’s for stress relief”) and dances in particle accelerator labs 💃. My scars? Your roadmap: the burn on my arm from accidentally cooking as a child, the calluses I built from hauling in scrap metal. And I want to go home and see that every watt of energy that I help produce shines light on the shadows that I crawled from.

Send me a message if you have ever stolen a chance. Or, just if you want to geek out about plasma turbulence with me. 🔥