From GED to MIT: Universal Principles for Success in School and Life Beyond

From GED to MIT: Universal Principles for Success in School and Life Beyond

This book is a self-help and motivational book for high school students and young adults interested in college. This book is the story of the author as he made his way from being a struggling alternative high school student with a learning disability, a mental health condition, and an addiction to video games; to graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technologies (MIT’s) Nuclear Engineering Master’s Program. This book covers self-help and self-development activities, finishing high school, finding funding for college, a standardized approach for studying for STEM classes, philosophical principles, and life beyond school. This college portion of this book is focused on STEM degrees: engineering, physics, and math focused, beginning with basic principles and building to advanced concepts. This book is designed to help the reader improve themselves, to find their own happiness, and to escape the physical / mental / financial barriers keeping them in place.