Junior Dev
You spend 2 hours debugging only to realize you forgot this tiny punctuation that separates statements.
Semicolon
Just shy of perfect, this fraction represents the kind of viral approval that’s almost complete… but not quite.
6/7
A programmer is recruited by a mysterious anarchist hacker group while struggling with mental health and corporate corruption.
Mr. Robot
This searching algorithm repeatedly divides a sorted array in half to locate a target value.
Binary Search
This BU professor was perfecting a device that would let people talk to each other over wires, a feat that would earn him worldwide fame just a year later.
Alexander Graham Bell
You and a teammate both edit the same file, Git refuses to pick a side, and suddenly your “easy feature” turns into a digital tug-of-war.
Merge Conflict
He wouldn't return to the feeding ground or the colony. The mountains were his calling.
This 2010 film about a college coder who accidentally creates a global phenomenon chronicles the messy origins of a platform famous for “liking” photos and posting status updates.
The Social Network
A monkey swings level by level, visiting all siblings before moving to the next generation of the tree.
Breadth-first traversal
Legend has it that stepping on this symbol will make graduation a distant dream.
BU Seal (Marsh Plaza)
The program runs cleanly, no errors appear, yet the results are subtly… wrong.
Logic Error
After this engineer retired at 30 and posted TikTok videos about life as an SWE, juniors everywhere suddenly realized the tech world was way more competitive…
Frank Niu
A genius programmer is invited to test the consciousness of a humanoid AI robot, confronting questions about morality, control, and what it means to be human.
Ex Machina
You want the fastest route between kingdoms in a weighted land map, and this greedy traveler guarantees the shortest path from a single starting castle.
Dijkstra’s algorithm
Before it's renaming in 1963, this stadium went by this name and once hosted a team in major league baseball.
Braves Field
Stack Overflow
One minute the forest was calm, the next… just like that, they were popping, scattering branches and snow in every direction.
Exploding Trees
This film details a brilliant mathematician who built a machine to decode German messages while facing secrecy, skepticism, and personal challenges, bringing his genius to the big screen.
The Imitation Game
Different syntax, same argument: keys go in, values come out, and everyone insists their version is the “cleanest.”
Hash Table
Gothic architecture on campus served as the eerie "Aldridge Mansion Museum" backdrop for this 2016 horror film starring Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig.
GhostBusters
When a set of instructions starts a party that never ends, and the program refuses to leave the dance floor.
Infinite Loop
In a city where championships are measured in banners and heartbreaks linger, this young leader has fans whispering about a return to former glory.
Drake "Drake Maye" Maye
A young prodigy learns the rules of chess while solving complex patterns in logic and probability, ultimately competing at the highest levels under intense social scrutiny.
The Queen's Gambit
Always grabbing the “best” thing in front of it and refusing to check what it left behind, this algorithm only really shines when the problem is behaving nicely.
Greedy Algorithm
Known as the “King of All Media,” this radio host broke boundaries with his shock-jock style and went on to host a long-running morning show on SiriusXM.
Howard Stern