Organizing a huge hackathon like TreeHacks is no small feat...but for Rachel, it was so worth it.

[00:00] Like, if I think if you talk to any of [00:02] the organizers from this year, I think [00:04] if any if you ask any of them like, "You [00:05] saw Rachel being very stressed out and [00:07] very like [00:08] she was she was just kind of losing it [00:09] at some points." I think all of them [00:11] would say like, "It's just because she's [00:12] so passionate about this." Like, there's [00:14] I would never ever take back the time [00:16] that I took doing TreeHacks and and all [00:18] the stress that I went through because [00:19] number one, I got great stories out of [00:21] it and I feel like I grew a lot as a [00:22] person, but I just genuinely adored it. [00:25] And I when the hackers were coming into [00:28] the the building that we hosted [00:29] TreeHacks in and just getting to meet [00:31] all these people that I feel like I've [00:32] worked so hard for. Like, I I always [00:34] knew that a thousand people are going to [00:36] come to this event and then finally [00:37] actually like meeting them and being [00:39] like, "I put all this work and effort [00:41] into this event for someone like you [00:44] who's also worked really hard to get [00:45] here." It's the most fulfilling and [00:47] heartwarming thing ever.