Non-academic things I did in undergrad
I was a codirector of the MIT Video Game Orchestra in my senior year, and I sang with the MIT Asymptones and played in the MIT Symphony Orchestra during my first year at MIT. Music performance is important to me, but I am still thinking about how best to explore it going forward.
I was also an admin for the MIT Educational Studies Program; in 2019, I codirected MIT Splash, a weekend-long educational program for thousands of high school students. Other than that, I also took on various officer positions in HMMT and was a member of the Council for Math Majors.
Contest math problems
I've written a few problems for the HMMT competition; here are a few that I particularly like. (All of the past problems and solutions can be found on the HMMT site.)
HMMT February 2019 G8: In triangle ABC with AB < AC, let H be the orthocenter and O be the circumcenter. Given that the midpoint of OH lies on BC, BC=1, and the perimeter of ABC is 6, find the area of ABC.
HMMT February 2020 C3: Each unit square of a square grid is colored either red, green, or blue. Over all possible colorings of the grid, what is the maximum possible number of L-trominos that contain exactly one square of each color? (L-trominos are made up of three unit squares sharing a corner.)
HMMO 2020 T5: The classrooms at MIT are each identified with a positive integer (with no leading zeroes). One day, as President Reif walks down the Infinite Corridor, he notices that a digit zero on a room sign has fallen off. Let N be the original number of the room, and let M be the room number as shown on the sign. The smallest interval containing all possible values of M/N can be expressed as [a/b, c/d) where a,b,c,d are positive integers with gcd(a,b) = gcd(c,d) = 1. Compute 1000a + 100b + 10c + d.
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Music
The MIT Video Game Orchestra has a YouTube channel with some of our past performances. One of my favorite arrangements is this medley of tracks from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door -- expect some of my others to be posted soon too! Our final project of 21M.303, Writing in Tonal Forms I, was to compose a minuet and trio for string quartet. You can find the score for my composition here, as well as a recording of it performed by the Worcester Chamber Music Society. If you want to hear me play some chamber music with friends, feel free to check out these recital recordings from May 2022 (music composed by group members!) or December 2021. I am kind of rusty but the pieces are good!
My LaTeX style package
If you'd like your LaTeX document to look like the ones that I make, feel free to try using my style package! Including this file in your project and starting a document with "\usepackage{lindrew}" will import all of the shortcuts / formatting that I use. For a sample document and some answers to FAQs, please take a look at this Overleaf project.
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