Last week, I was relaxing at one of my favorite spots on campus when a friend approached me and asked for my Excel expertise. Now, to be...

How Google Works is a book as broad as the company it describes. It dives into explanations of Google’s HR strategies, internal...

Depending on who you ask, the most useful office skill you can have right now is programming. As I’ve gotten more comfortable with...

Winter break has come to a close, and so it’s time to put a bow on my little March Madness experiment. Since my last post, I took a...

Everyday life is rife with decisions. Our daily routine involves so many actions that we can decide or relegate to routine. Every so...

This week, I worked on generating some probability data for the tournament. I chose to use the 2018 tournament data as my starting point,...

Every year, over my three to four weeks of winter break in college, I’ve resolved to do something. Whether it was to learn to program,...

On Tuesday around 4 pm, I walked out of the last final of the semester. While I’d been preparing mentally for the feeling, I couldn’t...

The other day, I was scrolling through social media and I came across an article from Business Insider. I didn’t open the article, but...

It’s not much of a secret I did debate in high school. A lot of people who meet me immediately have a hunch, and too many of my friends...

Earlier this semester, I agreed to play the clarinet at a Christmas concert with my chruch. Now, I hadn’t picked up my clarinet since...

Each morning, LinkedIn sends me a notification with some news for the day. Now, I almost never read the news; it just creates an annoying...

I think the moment I was sure I wanted to pursue Operations Research came on my way home from playing pickup basketball. It’s probably...

When it comes to movies, I’m a sucker for the Marvel formula: some good action scenes with witty dialogue and almost no depth. I don’t...

Good to Great is, as the title suggests, a book that discusses the process of going from “good” to “great.” To evaluate this, Collins and...

When I worked on my college essays, the common app had a question that I just couldn’t answer: Describe a place where you’re fully happy....

This book has all the elements of a story. We have development of a protagonist at the beginning, supporting characters, and a plot that...

This semester, I’ve been taking a class in Applied Probability. It’s a graduate level course for the ORIE department here At UT, so it’s...

Now I’ll be honest, I almost quit this book during the intro. The writing is fairly dry, and it feels like it’s written by someone who...