Amanda Coletti

What does a PhD weekend actually look like?

At the beginning of my grad school career, I would relax the entire Saturday and save all my work for Sunday. But this did not work for me. I would spend too much time swimming in guilt over what I should have done and how little time I gave myself to do certain tasks. Eventually, I realized that I needed to revise my weekends to get most of my work out of the way early on, and to prevent my continual Sunday night panic. Here is what my PhD weekend looked like this week...