I started with a similar "goal" at MIT; I couldn't honestly have been further off the mark.
Perhaps the most important lesson I've learned in my undergraduate years is that asking for help is vital -- early on, I would not want to bother a research supervisor or professor and would struggle against a problem for hours; then I would finally get it, only to show it to my professor and have him laugh, asking why I made it so hard when there was a much easier way (that he then proceeded to show me).
In short: don't be afraid to ask for help, that's the point of going to school with real live humans as teachers: they can answers questions and give you help in a way textbooks can't :)
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I started with a similar "goal" at MIT; I couldn't honestly have been further off the mark.
Perhaps the most important lesson I've learned in my undergraduate years is that asking for help is vital -- early on, I would not want to bother a research supervisor or professor and would struggle against a problem for hours; then I would finally get it, only to show it to my professor and have him laugh, asking why I made it so hard when there was a much easier way (that he then proceeded to show me).
In short: don't be afraid to ask for help, that's the point of going to school with real live humans as teachers: they can answers questions and give you help in a way textbooks can't :)
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