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Meet Melissa

Melissa

Undergraduate Student

Management

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Challenge Areas:

Choosing a Major

At MIT’s Campus Preview Weekend, Melissa was intrigued by what she heard and saw at the Course 15 (Management) open house. Hearing other students talk down about Course 15, however, led Melissa to explore other more technical majors at MIT because they seemed to be what everyone else was interested in. After switching majors three times, a conversation with her mother causes her to shift her perspective. Melissa ultimately declares Course 15 as her major where she finds support in finding her own path.

...what I like doing is just as valid as what other people like doing and it is totally OK that it is different from what the person next to me likes doing...”

Melissa, Undergraduate Student

Melissa’s Strategies

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Melissa: Not Comparing Yourself to Others

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Melissa: Overcoming Decision Paralysis

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Melissa: Talking to Mentors

Another Point of View

Listen to other students relating to this same struggle and what helped them cope.

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Finding Her Passion

Unfortunately, I did not have something that I was extremely passionate about, like many people I didn't know what I loved and I thought that was fine, it would just take me some time to figure out the one thing that consumed me.”

Meet Delia,

Undergraduate Student

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Choosing a Path

I was worried that I wasn't giving my other passions... the opportunity to be something more...I did not want to find out thirty years from now that that's what I should have been doing instead.”

Meet Samir,

Graduate Student