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At the beginning of senior year, I began tackling the question on my final final exam: What happens next? Decision-making is a skill. Like many skills, there’s a body of knowledge, scattered in decision theory textbooks, rationality blog posts, and sappy screeds about choosing where to go to college. Like many skills, there’s a gap between knowing and working, a gap exacerbated by the fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding big choices. Unlike many skills, there’s not opportunities to practice, as the life decisions are distant, and the feedback cycles are lengthy. Many scenarios are similar, but none are the same; the contexts are simply too different. All this to say: for me, choosing what to do after college was easier than choosing where to go for college. But only a little easier. Let’s simplify this decision. Should I do an MEng or not? Should I spend another year or two in MIT and get degree, or should I leave Boston and work in industry? Never mind the question of what industr

One If I stay, will you go? And if I go, will you stay? I don’t know If I can keep going down this road At the beginning of senior year, I began tackling the question on my final final exam: What happens next? Decision-making is a skill. Like many skills, there’s a body of knowledge, scattered in decision theory textbooks, rationality blog posts, and sappy screeds about choosing where to go to college. Like many skills, there’s a gap between knowing and working, a gap exacerbated by the fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding big choices. Unlike many skills, there’s not opportunities to pract

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