Chance / Advice for UPenn M&T / Berkeley M.E.T? / reverse chance for EECS / Bus Programs!

nikilr
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 04:51:26 +0000

Hi @LilPaloAlto I’m a 2020 M&T (just had our virtual graduation).

You sound like a cool person. I think you’ve got some cool interests that are pretty unique (I don’t think there’s a powerlifter M&T as far as I know). I also really think your beats app sounds cool. Would you be interested in sharing the link?

I think it could be definitely worth talking about how these things are real deep passions of yours. A potential discussion could be how you learned perseverance or the importance of how understanding something deeply (ex technique) has an outsized impact on your output and progress. Maybe tie that into music theory.

I think a cool essay topic related to this startup idea is you working thru a sort of collaborative design-thinking process and testing it with a set of target customers. You might take away some interesting tips from Ash Maurya’s Running Lean. I thought the way he interviewed customers was insightful.

Another perhaps interesting lens is linking your other interests with business analytics / data science. If you truly think about things in this way, it could be interesting talking about how you actually think about finding principal components in datasets, find trends etc. It could be cool if someone discussed how their non- biz and tech interests actually tie in that way.

Fun fact: We have (at least 3) former DECA state officers between M&T 2020 and 2021 (including me). I’ll be honest, I don’t think being a state finalist is particularly impressive. You have more impressive and interesting things to talk about as discussed above.

Is https://cosmos-lab.org/ what you are referring to when you say “COSMOS” ?

If you’re interested in working on some cool projects over the summer to strengthen your tech and data science experiences you might enjoy summer.inventxyz.com/ that I’ve been developing as part of my edtech startup.