I’m still running OTIS, 10 years later.
- In February and March 2025, I’m probably going to be spending some time catching up on some OTIS-related maintenance that I shelved while I was working on my thesis and 18.02 book.
- That said, I feel like OTIS hasn’t evolved much in the last few years. The number of students has stabilized to 600-700 per year, and I haven’t had many new ideas for topics or infrastructure. I feel like the program could use some fresh life.
- I’m also thinking about what might happen beyond competitions. In particular, the USA math contest system has a lot of serious issues now, and I don’t want it to be the only pathway to math in the USA.

I’m still building a lot of puzzle hunts:
- I’ve been helping put together the 2025 Teammate Hunt, that will launch at the end of March 2025.
- I’m also working on the 2025 OPAL hunt for OTIS that will launch around August 2025.
- I also contributed a couple puzzles to the Brass Rat Hunt that happened in February 2025.

Starting in 2025, I’ve been studying some Korean. I don’t really have any compelling reason why. I’ve just decided this is something I want to try. My memory is not great, and I’m old, so I don’t know how long I’ll be able to keep this up. But for now I’m still going.

Future plans

Career mostly TBD. I still plan to be at MOP in June and IMO in July.

Recent checkpoints

In December 2024 I defended my thesis. But I’m not planning to continue in academia.

In January 2025 I finished a multivariable calculus textbook that I wrote primarily during the fall of 2024, when I was teaching a recitation section. It’s supposed to go up on MIT OpenCourseWare soon.

Updated Sun 16 Feb 2025, 17:52:23 UTC by 7fb2a3fdc95d