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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MW Turnage" data-source="post: 1447941" data-attributes="member: 7250">Run out ASAP and get find a copy of Pepper White's The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT. It's White's memoirs as a grad student at MIT from '81 to '84. While it's about MIT rather than CalTech, you'll find a lot of similarities. Going into an environment where everyone was the top of their class. Living in a social situation where there's constant pressure, both external and internal. Dealing with the tensions between the academic world and the business world, and the directly opposing priorities each has. Having to face the fact that there may be limits you never knew you had, and might not want to admit.It's a book I really, really wish someone had given me to read before I started college. Would've changed the way I approached a number of things.(EDIT: Congratulations, BTW! Getting in is an incredible achievement, and you should rightly be proud of it)</blockquote>