One Friday night last year, Akylah Cox and her boyfriend took a red-eye flight from Pennsylvania to Dublin for a whirlwind adventure. The trip lasted less than 30 hours. They hit up an impressive number of spots: the Guinness Storehouse, the Book of Kells experience at Trinity College, Ha’penny Bridge, Capel Street for thrifting (“I gave myself only 30 minutes to do this, but it had to get done,” Cox says) and the Celtic Nights dinner and show. They were back home on Sunday and went to work the next day. She shared her experience on TikTok with the caption, “Was this crazy?!” The responses varied. “I would be tired the rest of the week,” one person commented with two woozy-face emojis. “This inspired me!” another said. “I’m tryna be this level crazy,” commented another. Akylah Cox and boyfriend Akram Imam in Dublin in February 2025. (Akylah Cox) For Cox, who was working full time in engineering and pursuing an MBA while her boyfriend was completing his medical residency, creating an ultra-compacted itinerary was the …