First Year PhD – My Mistakes – 5 Tips to Avoid Common Pitfalls

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Welcome to the PhD Dojo!

This week, I'm starting a series on tools and strategies to make the best out of your PhD experience. Today – Things I would have loved to know when I started my PhD a nd that would have saved me a lot of headaches.
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00:00 - Intro

02:14 - My mistake

02:47 - The time factor

03:37 - Why you need backup PhD projects

04:50 - Knowing your funding timelines and deadlines

06:42 - Involve your supervisor in the process of creating your plan

07:13 - Factoring in your personal life plans

09:19 - Take-home message
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You know something? I never really made a plan during grad school and it led to a lot of frustration. Thanks for sharing this!

TheBoldPhD
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Great to see you David! Yep, as Jim Roth famously said, "if you don't have your own plan, chances are you will end up in someone else's plan." And you always need to take into account that academia might just not be your destiny.

OntologyofValue
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I went into a PhD with a lot of academic curiosity and good idea of my short and medium goals, but little idea of what it means for the journey of my long-term personal goal.

Nice to see you on camera, David!

PhDCoffeeTime
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Hands up - I had no plan during my doctoral studies, other than to get that damn thesis finished and submitted! First couple of years I bounced around the lab with lots of failures and dead-ends. I was on a UK-based PhD - only 3 years funding. By year 3 (my panic year) I needed to get laser focused. I'd learnt to have at least 2 experiments on the go at anyone time (as an insurance policy for experimental failure) and I'd planned out a thesis outline with outstanding experiments to focus my efforts on and plug the gaps. Somehow I managed to pass in time and even get published, only because I developed a plan in the 3rd year and got it executed. Just wish I'd done that from the beginning. Great advice David - needed this back in day!

Oh and as for the life planning during my PhD?..don't get me started... ;)

biomedbadass