Nathan Brown

Blog

  1. I won the Reserve section at the 2025 Austin Summer Open!
  2. First year of UT is in the books!
  3. I organized a 10-day game of tag with 10 of my friends
  4. My advice: how I make the most of college
  5. I never want to write another proof again
  6. I wrote a journal entry for every single day in 2024
  7. UT changelog
  8. First impressions of UT
  9. My favorite games this summer
  10. 3 things on my mind before I start at UT
  11. I taught an elementary school chess club for two months
  12. I hosted a spectacular 20-acre game of Capture the Flag
  13. College updates!!
  14. A long-winded April Fool's rickroll
  15. Mao: a wonderfully infuriating card game
  16. The ultimate guide to Wikipedia racing
  17. The highlight of my Istanbul trip was... the carpet shop?
  18. Why do I write online?
  19. Determining the best sport of all time
  20. What do I do with my life?
  21. What I actually find ChatGPT useful for
  22. Habits to start in 2024
  23. 3 scattered thoughts about college admissions
  24. Ranking the 11 APs of my high school career
  25. How I journal with Terminal and plaintext files
  26. I don't like newsletters that are recycling centers
  27. Anki is possibly the best app ever
  28. The SAT should not be going digital
  29. 5 guidelines for writing college admissions essays
  30. How I get As with just Notion and Google Calendar
  31. A fascinating psychology game for 4+ players
  32. I'm 17, so here's 17 pieces of life advice
  33. 3 pieces of advice for those planning to start a blog
  34. Be more of a documentarian
  35. MIT now has a -4% acceptance rate
  36. My experience with the MacOS Terminal
  37. How to use music to time travel
  38. I scored 4/5 points at the 2023 ACC Summer Chess Championship!
  39. 8 things I learned from my internship at Cetec-ERP
  40. Blokus Duo theory and strategies
  41. How writing is like building a LEGO set
  42. One rule: don't draw the Ace of Spades
  43. What I learned by solving 30 Project Euler problems in 50 days
  44. Why you should consider Santa's Sleigh Deliveries for your next package
  45. The tools I use at school
  46. Study techniques ranked best to worst
  47. Things that annoy me about Go
  48. What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time?
  49. Introducing an AP Micro Resource Pack
  50. CollegeBoard releases a brand-new AP course: AP Puzzles
  51. Why I number my posts
  52. ChatGPT is very funny, especially when you ask it about bananas
  53. Happiness & the four quadrants of life activities
  54. 2 things I hate about Twitter
  55. Why is chess so trendy right now?
  56. 4 reasons to use military time
  57. How bullet chess and TikTok can both ruin your attention span
  58. How to write well without the common curse of "Taki writing"
  59. How to prevent the pull of perfectionism with time pressure
  60. The law of diminishing marginal utility: make every bite count
  61. What losing chess games can teach you about decision-making
  62. Take the quiz to see if you're an original Twitter user
  63. A superior alternative to the Pomodoro technique
  64. Teeko: a quick & fun party game
  65. 7 tips to improve your grades
  66. How to choose a good Christmas gift
  67. Would you rather have 1 pound of solid gold or 40,000,000 individual Cheez-Its?
  68. Journaling doesn't have to be aesthetic to be effective
  69. To counteract rising inflation, the Federal Reserve introduces the Goldfish standard
  70. Typing quickly saves a ton of time
  71. 10 reasons why you should (definitely) use TikTok
  72. "Why are you always so into chess?"