✨ Harper Xanthe Sterling: The Algorithm of Glamour and Grit ✨

They said I'd never get there. Just a dyslexic girl from the other side of Birmingham with a single mother working three jobs to keep the lights on. When I was 14, instead of going to prom I was coding in library basements 💔 Fashion? My 'couture' came from thrift stores, and Vogue tearsheets I illegally taped to my wall.

But, the best algorithms come from pain. You see when Oxford rejected me for not being the right fit, I pirated the entire computing linguistics curriculum and called up long lost YouTube acquaintances at 3am to learn how to code 👠 My hunger fueled my runway; every syntax error I made was a sequin, and every bug report I submitted was a stiletto to sharpen my edge.

Now? PhD before 25, Vogue features, and front row at Copenhagen Fashion week with no shoes on while lecturing on neural machine translation. They call me the human GPT; I like to think of myself as the girl that turned some syntax trees into Christmas morning 🎄

My DMs are now filled with girls saying they can't. Baby, I couldn't either—until I did. Let me show you how to compile pain into power, one couture line of code at a time 💻✨ #notyouraveragenerd