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learn a new skill
Your life isn't boring, you just need to find a new hobby or skill to master. I'll list a few below and make sure to try them when you have nothing to do or feel like trying something new! scrapbooking making your own tea or bread candle making baking make a new playlist smoothie bowls pen pals homemade mochi If you have anymore fun activities, list them below!
0 likes • Aug 8
learn to solder electronics. its useful and even if you dont really need it, its LITERALLY SO FUN AND SATISFYING.
The truth about college, high school, and success
I understand the stress of wanting to get into a good college, getting awards, getting extracurriculars, and pretty much everything else that comes with the high school college experience. I've heard from a lot of people thay you shouldn't hyper focus on college stuff, but should try to enjoy the high school experience too. Make friends and connections, socialize, have fun, and use those connections to your advantage. If you spend all of your time in high school worrying about college, you might be wasting precious high school time that adults often cherish later in their life. Might as well balance socializing and the college grind or even combine them. If your goal is to be successful, then there's also caveats to college. If you want to go to Harvard or Stanford or any other top school because you want to be filthy rich/wealthy, then you're just like me and I realized something about these schools. It's not the schools that make you wealthy, its the people that they selectively choose to be accepted to their schools that have the potential to be wealthy, therefore building up their reputation. Somebody that has a 1590 SAT, 4.0 GPA, and blazing extracurriculars that have generated a lot of revenue will have more potential to be successful than someone with a 1000 SAT, 2.5 GPA, and no extracurriculars, so obviously they'll pick the person that shows them the most potential (meaning the most return on their investment). Its not the schools, its the people. If you wish to be successful, starting to become the person that has enough innovation, drive, and the skills to create an extracurricular just like that will get you a long way. I would like to mention that this is how Joowan got into Stanford too, since he said his other ventures were kind of mid and that the skool community was the bargaining chip that got him in. They chose him since they saw potential in him creating a successful business, so they let him in so they would be tied to his name in the future.
1 like • Jul 27
I dont think anyone goes to top tier schools specifically for being wealthy. People go to top tier schools to pursue their passions and be surrounded by smart people and to advance knowledge/technology for the public good and to improve the world. That's usually the mission statement of most top-tier schools, and the people who get accepted are most alligned with that mission statement. there's nothing wrong with wanting to be rich but i dont think that people will specifically aim for top tier schools for money or prestige.
Kinda Unrelated but do y'all have a certain routine y'all follow b4 a test?
Wsg, do y'all have like a special routine y'all do the day or the night b4 a test that usually works. For me: Night b4, I watch Preaching P's video on last minute test taking techniques just to refresh myself, then I wake up, do my morning routine, shower, pu to school, review in homeroom, then pu to the test whichever block it is pumping music. b4 the test, I say a prayer and then I cook. wbu guys?
0 likes • Jul 26
i just drink a bucketload of water before the test
Study "Hacks" are overrated
Many people spend waaaaay too much time trying to perfect their study methods and systems and stuff. Setting up notion templates and study playlists and watching "how to study efficiently" videos or looking for "hacks" while studying doesn't make you study better. The reason these "techniques" are so widespread is because they make you feel like you're being productive by having the most perfect setup, but you're not actually achieving much out of it. I think it's much more effective and a better use of your time to just get your studying done. Instead of obsessing over improving the process of how you're studying in order to speed up. Stop worrying about your current study routines or habits. There's absolutely nothing wrong with just studying out of brute force if it works.
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Watch the video & complete the steps below: 1. First, introduce yourself in the comments: type your dream school, where you're from, and what part of the college application process you would like the most help with (stats, ecs, awards, etc)! 2. Make your first post to win a FREE 1-1 consulting session with me! ✌️Joowan
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3 likes • Jul 15
Hi, my name is Tanay and I'm a rising junior in Massachusetts. My dream schools are MIT and Caltech, and I plan to study aerospace engineering and applied physics. The extracurriculars and projects I'm gonna be working on next year are really good, but the problem is that I'll be considered an international applicant to most universities. I don't have any awards, and awards are more important for international applicants.
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