Before becoming a graduate student, I used to hold lots of really bad assumptions about graduate school. Some of those bad assumptions included things like “once I get my Master’s degree, I’ll have mastered the subjects I’ve studied,” or “when I'm in graduate school, I’ll be able to research whatever I want!” However, the most damning belief I held was the following: good ideas take a long time to get.
This couldn’t be more wrong.
The reality is that good ideas can come fast and easy. What’s hard and time-consuming is fleshing out the details of a good idea. At MIT, I see people come up with tons of great ideas within minutes (even seconds!) of looking at a problem. Don’t spend gobs of time waiting for some good idea to hit you. It probably already did. Now, it’s time for you to get to work on the details!
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