Born in California and raised in Lebanon, Selena Nadjarian has always lived between worlds, cultures, disciplines, and expectations. A Lebanese-Armenian mechanical engineering student who once dreamed of becoming a doctor now designs tools for learning. She believes that empathy is just as important in engineering as equations. This chapter shares her journey, from surviving years of bullying to mentoring future engineers, from enduring a war semester to building a dam simulation that teaches hydroelectricity. It is a story of persistence, identity, and the quiet power of believing you belong, even when the world tries to say otherwise.