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How Lego Bricks Shaped My Career at NIST

A millennial's take on real-world applications

Leon Chao
Wed, 10/05/2022 - 12:02
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I am 100 percent a millennial (lol), which—according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary—means I’m a “person born in the 1980s or 1990s.” To me, being a millennial means belonging to a cultlike group within a large population of present-day wannabe-adults for whom seemingly arbitrary words like Rugrats, Dunkaroos, Charizard, Spice Girls, and It’s Morphin’ Time!!! can spark extreme nostalgia and reboot our brains back to the golden days of real pop culture.

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Like many other ’90s kids, I grew up raising my Tamagotchis, scraping my knees because I refused to wear lame knee pads when rollerblading, transforming my Transformers, and terrorizing my sister with Ninja Turtles action figures.

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