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  1. I won the Reserve section at the 2025 Austin Summer Open!
  2. First year of UT is in the books!
  3. I wrote a journal entry for every single day in 2024
  4. UT changelog
  5. First impressions of UT
  6. My favorite games this summer
  7. 3 things on my mind before I start at UT
  8. I taught an elementary school chess club for two months
  9. I hosted a spectacular 20-acre game of Capture the Flag
  10. College updates!!
  11. A long-winded April Fool's rickroll
  12. Mao: a wonderfully infuriating card game
  13. The ultimate guide to Wikipedia racing
  14. What I actually find ChatGPT useful for
  15. Habits to start in 2024
  16. 3 scattered thoughts about college admissions
  17. Ranking the 11 APs of my high school career
  18. Journaling with Terminal & text files
  19. I don't like newsletters that are recycling centers
  20. Anki is possibly the best app ever
  21. The SAT should not be going digital
  22. 5 guidelines for writing college admissions essays
  23. How I get As with just Notion and Google Calendar
  24. A fascinating psychology game for 4+ players
  25. I'm 17, so here's 17 pieces of life advice
  26. 3 pieces of advice for those planning to start a blog
  27. Be more of a documentarian
  28. MIT now has a -4% acceptance rate
  29. My experience with the MacOS Terminal
  30. How to use music to time travel
  31. I scored 4/5 points at the 2023 ACC Summer Chess Championship!
  32. 8 things I learned from my internship at Cetec-ERP
  33. Blokus Duo theory and strategies
  34. How writing is like building a LEGO set
  35. One rule: don't draw the Ace of Spades
  36. What I learned by solving 30 Project Euler problems in 50 days
  37. Why you should consider Santa's Sleigh Deliveries for your next package
  38. The tools I use at school
  39. Study techniques ranked best to worst
  40. Things that annoy me about Go
  41. What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time?
  42. Introducing an AP Micro Resource Pack
  43. CollegeBoard releases a brand-new AP course: AP Puzzles
  44. Why I number my posts
  45. ChatGPT is very funny, especially when you ask it about bananas
  46. Happiness & the four quadrants of life activities
  47. 2 things I hate about Twitter
  48. Why is chess so trendy right now?
  49. 4 reasons to use military time
  50. How bullet chess and TikTok can both ruin your attention span
  51. How to write well without the common curse of "Taki writing"
  52. How to prevent the pull of perfectionism with time pressure
  53. The law of diminishing marginal utility: make every bite count
  54. What losing chess games can teach you about decision-making
  55. Take the quiz to see if you're an original Twitter user
  56. A superior alternative to the Pomodoro technique
  57. Teeko: a quick & fun party game
  58. 7 tips to improve your grades
  59. How to choose a good Christmas gift
  60. Would you rather have 1 pound of solid gold or 40,000,000 individual Cheez-Its?
  61. Journaling doesn't have to be aesthetic to be effective
  62. To counteract rising inflation, the Federal Reserve introduces the Goldfish standard
  63. Typing quickly saves a ton of time
  64. 10 reasons why you should (definitely) use TikTok
  65. "Why are you always so into chess?"