Other than the heavy school load and apartment moving, another high stress that I experienced this past summer was my admission application for Technology and Policy Program (or TPP). Since TPP doesn't accept GMAT but GRE scores as part of their admission application, I had to take the GRE 1 1/2 months ago. The stress and efforts spent in the TPP admission process finally paid off today. It is now official, I was notified earlier today that I have been accepted to the TPP program. In other words, I will be pursuing 2 degrees simultaneously at MIT.

So what made me decide to suddenly take a policy track in my academic pursuit? I think it was my self-affirming experience in last year's tsunami disaster that made me contemplate on how responsible and pragmatic engineering can help to solve issues and problems confronting the human society. I grew up asking big questions, so naturally I want to broaden my academic interests to include economics and policy. Specifically, I am interested in assessing opportunities, hazards, and benefits of nanotechnology in society and politics. With this in mind, I need to start searching for research opportunities and a thesis advisor in this area. Also, with this new development, I won't be graduating in June 2006 as originally planned, but by January 2007. For once, I would just like to take my time to finish up my classes and be more engaged with the student and research community at MIT. I am glad; my academic plan at MIT is finally taking hold.

8/16/2005 11:36:45 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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