A brain beyond borders
Victoria OkuneyePhoto: Allegra Boverman Decisions aren’t always easy to make — especially life-changing ones. When MIT senior Victoria Okuneye found out four years ago that she had been admitted to the Institute, she took a while to choose her path. “I didn’t decide until the last day,” Okuneye reflects, “but I think I had really decided a long time before.”Four years later, Okuneye can tell you all about making decisions. She has nearly completed her major in brain and cognitive sciences (as well as minors in chemistry and applied international studies) and conducts research on decision making in the Center for Neuroeconomics at MIT — when she’s not dancing salsa, writing and performing spoken word poetry, and empowering youth in Jamaica or Mexico, that is.But Okuneye, who was awarded a Truman Scholarship earlier this year, hadn’t considered MIT until the summer before her senior year of high school, when she participated...