How much time do you spend doing research?

[agiraffe999]

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Just curious how many hours per week in & out of the semester you all spend doing research, or how many PIs you all work with.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Not enough but somehow still too many.

 

[Qwerty122]

Around an hour each work-day for me, I do that before the daily lectures, but I actually enjoy doing the research I'm doing now so I don't think others do as much.

 

[aldol16]

In my pre-clinical years, there were bursts of days or weekends where I would be working really hard on projects and lighter weeks where I was waiting for things to happen. It varies widely. So does the number of PIs worked with. I would say that depth of experience is more important than breadth because you'll get a much better letter if you work with a few people for a long time than with many people just briefly for a project at a time.

 

[Nugester]

Minimal during school, quite a bit during winter break.

 

[Welshman]

15h per week in the lab during M2 and writing on top of that, was too much

 

[ekmf27050]

In my pre-clinical years, there were bursts of days or weekends where I would be working really hard on projects and lighter weeks where I was waiting for things to happen. It varies widely. So does the number of PIs worked with. I would say that depth of experience is more important than breadth because you'll get a much better letter if you work with a few people for a long time than with many people just briefly for a project at a time.

Same. I would have a short period of crunching out data analysis, literature screening, or manuscript writing. Then I would wait a while for the next part (edits from the senior author, data from a co-author, etc)

 

[Yhwach]

I do it in bursts, whenever I get done studying earlier than I expect.