How do you cope with uncertainty?
A response from Andy Shin at MIT: When things are uncertain, I tend to focus on what I can control and try to do my best in that. Then I just have to have faith that things will be okay and trust the process.
A response from Andy Shin at MIT: When things are uncertain, I tend to focus on what I can control and try to do my best in that. Then I just have to have faith that things will be okay and trust the process.
A response from Lindsey Bjornstad at MIT: Immediately panic, but then try to calm myself down. If it’s something completely unknown and bad, I get the urge to curl up in a ball.Sometimes, though, if it’s the unknown that isn’t necessarily bad, I am quiet until I can know what …
A Response from Natalie Northrup at MIT: Not particularly well, but there are a few strategies I use. Most often, I let myself mentally envision what my life could look like under a bunch of the possible outcomes – which most often allows me to see that I can really …
A response from Karen Chen at MIT: I think that environment ethics are pretty hard to define because each “preventative measure” we might be able to take will likely trickle down to lower income/less privileged populations and further cement their lesser power in society.
A response from David Fang at MIT: Environmental ethics is becoming more and more important as we try to reconcile our impacts on nature with improving our own lives through technology.
A response by Allen Zhang at MIT: I cope with uncertainty by accepting that it is uncertain and focusing on things that I can control
A response from Sebastian Viasus at MIT: When I encounter the unknown my body typically reacts with either fear or excitement. The determining factor for the response is my perspective. For me, perspective is typically a result of how I’ve been feeling overall for the past few days or so. …
A response from Cristina at Socrates Sculpture Park: Me personally? I don’t.My mind circles a thousand thousand drainsuntil I’m dizzy.
A response from Mariuxi Tapia in Queens: I try to plan. I have anxiety and whatever I can control so that I’m ready as possible with the unexpected I do. I also try to have moments of distraction. And when the anxiety of it all gets bad- I cry and …