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- You think GPA is important and spend time boosting your grades.
- You think research is as deterministic and well-defined as courses.
- You wait to be told what to do rather than figure out your own way.
- You think you are working for your adviser rather than yourself.
- Instead of work continuously, you let external factors (e.g. holiday and semester breaks) disrupt your flow.
- You do not read every paper in the top venues of your fields especially during your first few years.
- You try to read and understand every paper completely like textbooks.
- You feel that deadline 3 months later is still far away.
- You believe you are smart enough so that you do not have to work as hard as others.