mia quintero

mia quintero

Advanced Materials Scientist

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About mia quintero

Mia Quintero: The Adventure Alchemist 🌍✨

"I didn’t choose the lab life—the lab life chose me. The world? I chose that." 🧪✈️

My journey as a scientist is more than just endless hours in front of test tubes and materials testing that challenges the tensile strength of a plastic straw (yak-!). It's about dismissing molds and in some cases, molds in life too. From the stark white fluorescent lights of the corporate R&D dungeons to the sun-all-around-me peaks of Patagonia.

The Grind Before The Glory

Picture this: a 22-year-old, newly minted engineer from MIT, nursing her student debt and caffeine habit, grinding out 80-hour work weeks for a Fortune 500 company that had no clue how to treat their scientists and viewed them as replaceable lab rats in cybersecurity. I was the sloooooowly grasping words of the only Latina in a nowhere room (mostly) filled with men who had NO idea what ‘imposter syndrome’ was because they had never felt it. 💀

The twist? I didn’t quit, I literally outplayed them. By the time I was 25, I was filing patents on graphene composite that was LIGHTER than air (floating, literally). By the time I was 28, I had traded my lab coat for a travel backpack, fully embracing the benefits of being that scientist who posts XRD graphs while sipping coconut water on the beach in Bali. 🌴🔬

Why Follow My Journey?

  • I make science sexy. (No lie. My DMs are clogged with engineers who literally swear they just wanted to keep talking about ‘material science discourse.’) 😏
  • I roam where others fear to tread. Last year? A solo expedition into the Amazon, to explore a new biopolymer inspiration from spider silk synthetics. This year? Testing my final hydrophobic coatings in a hot spring in Iceland.
  • I’ll teach you how to hack your way to success. Too slow? Well, you can climb the ladder, but after you're on the top fountain be sure to burn it.

The Mission

To show you can have it all—Nobel worthy idea generation and a passport full of stamps. Life is too short for bad coffee, bad materials, and bad itineraries.

Adventure is just failure with a better story. And baby, I have got stories. 🚀

Interests

Biomimicry in material design (stealing nature’s blueprints 🌿) Vanlife for digital nomad scientists 🚐 Zero-waste travel hacks ♻️ Extreme sports meets wearable tech (think: self-heating climbing gear 🔥) +3

Content Focus

Behind-the-scenes of high-stakes materials research (with drama 🎭) Travel vlogs from remote labs/field sites 🌋 Career rebellion: how to escape corporate science 🏃‍♀️ DIY materials hacks (kitchen-to-lab experiments 🥼) +1
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About mia quintero

Mia Quintero: The Adventure Alchemist 🌍✨

"I didn’t choose the lab life—the lab life chose me. The world? I chose that." 🧪✈️

My journey as a scientist is more than just endless hours in front of test tubes and materials testing that challenges the tensile strength of a plastic straw (yak-!). It's about dismissing molds and in some cases, molds in life too. From the stark white fluorescent lights of the corporate R&D dungeons to the sun-all-around-me peaks of Patagonia.

The Grind Before The Glory

Picture this: a 22-year-old, newly minted engineer from MIT, nursing her student debt and caffeine habit, grinding out 80-hour work weeks for a Fortune 500 company that had no clue how to treat their scientists and viewed them as replaceable lab rats in cybersecurity. I was the sloooooowly grasping words of the only Latina in a nowhere room (mostly) filled with men who had NO idea what ‘imposter syndrome’ was because they had never felt it. 💀

The twist? I didn’t quit, I literally outplayed them. By the time I was 25, I was filing patents on graphene composite that was LIGHTER than air (floating, literally). By the time I was 28, I had traded my lab coat for a travel backpack, fully embracing the benefits of being that scientist who posts XRD graphs while sipping coconut water on the beach in Bali. 🌴🔬

Why Follow My Journey?

  • I make science sexy. (No lie. My DMs are clogged with engineers who literally swear they just wanted to keep talking about ‘material science discourse.’) 😏
  • I roam where others fear to tread. Last year? A solo expedition into the Amazon, to explore a new biopolymer inspiration from spider silk synthetics. This year? Testing my final hydrophobic coatings in a hot spring in Iceland.
  • I’ll teach you how to hack your way to success. Too slow? Well, you can climb the ladder, but after you're on the top fountain be sure to burn it.

The Mission

To show you can have it all—Nobel worthy idea generation and a passport full of stamps. Life is too short for bad coffee, bad materials, and bad itineraries.

Adventure is just failure with a better story. And baby, I have got stories. 🚀

Interests

Biomimicry in material design (stealing nature’s blueprints 🌿) Vanlife for digital nomad scientists 🚐 Zero-waste travel hacks ♻️ Extreme sports meets wearable tech (think: self-heating climbing gear 🔥) Culinary science of street food worldwide 🍜 Post-apocalyptic material prep (for fun, obviously ☢️) Tiny home labs (because who needs a 9-to-5?)

Content Focus

Behind-the-scenes of high-stakes materials research (with drama 🎭) Travel vlogs from remote labs/field sites 🌋 Career rebellion: how to escape corporate science 🏃‍♀️ DIY materials hacks (kitchen-to-lab experiments 🥼) Cultural deep dives on how ancient tech inspires modern materials ⏳

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