Most of my impressive stuff has come from being nice and treating everybody, students, counselors, and business people like they are people too. Example 1: Wen

Most of my impressive stuff has come from being nice and treating everybody, students, counselors, and business people like they are people too. Example 1: Went and talked to my teachers a semester early. Set up an extra credit project on a whim that let me data analysis on a Berkshire Hathaway company. Example 2: After a failed business deal, I called up a vendor and explained what happened and why we wouldn't be working with them. After the sales rep heard what happened and heard that I didn't have anything to do this summer, they offered me a cool internship working on a way better project. The basics for academics: http://calnewport.com/blog/ http://calnewport.com/blog/ The yellow and red books were great. Haven't read the white book yet though.