Institutional memory
Common mistakes
Organized by the stage where the mistake is still cheap to fix, and taken from the same rules the software checks. Reading this needs no account.
- Work out which forms this project needs Assuming none are needed. A survey is human participants research and a great many students do not realize it.
- Submit for SRC and IRB approval Applications are read in the order received, so the final date means being reviewed last. **A human participants project after the final date is refused outright** — not late, not penalized, refused. This is the one date in the calendar that ends seasons.
- Check you are eligible Grade, school, and citizenship are the three that catch people, and all three are checkable in a minute before writing anything.
- Ask your sponsor for a letter First, not last. A teacher asked in the final week writes a letter that reads like one, and a reviewer has read hundreds of them.
Where this comes from
The research process and the rules each program publishes. Every one of these is attached to a step, and a student working here meets it on the day they are doing that step rather than on a page they read once in August.
A club keeps its own list as well, about its own teachers and its own seasons, written by officers who watched something go wrong. That one is not public, because it names people.
Knowing these is not the same as remembering them in March.
Signing in attaches each of these to the thing you are actually doing: the warning about a literature review arrives while you are writing one, and the one about signature order arrives before it can no longer be fixed.