> transition from doing great in classes (learning along an externally designed sequence) to planning and doing your own research may not go smoothly I would s

> transition from doing great in classes (learning along an externally designed sequence) to planning and doing your own research may not go smoothly I would speculate that this is largely because students spend most of their attention on pre-planned classroom-like work and do almost no research-like work during the first 16+ years of their formal schooling.