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title: Taking up ambitious open-ended side projects (as a high school/college student)
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author: Issa Rice
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- always remember Cognito mentoring's [Stay mainstream until you have demonstrated success doing unusual stuff](http://info.cognitomentoring.org/wiki/Stay_mainstream_until_you_have_demonstrated_success_doing_unusual_stuff)