I did PhD in New Zealand. I just studied 1 hour per day. Only rush during teaching and working on codes. No need for top pubs. Just A-ranked journals on ABDC lists are sufficient to get job there. PhD Program requires 3-4 papers. With 3-4 papers R&R in A-ranked journals on ABDC lists will give me a Lecturer Job permanent (tenured). Life is good.
How many hours a day should a PhD student study?
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I treated my first year in my PhD like a job. I would try to work about 40 hours a week. Usually about 9-5 Monday-Friday (including classes). Sometimes I would work extra on weekends and it would be like 50-60 hours a week.
I only stayed up working past dinner time like twice - not because I didn't have work to do, but because I just know I can't do any work past like 4-5pm
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I treated my first year in my PhD like a job. I would try to work about 40 hours a week. Usually about 9-5 Monday-Friday (including classes). Sometimes I would work extra on weekends and it would be like 50-60 hours a week.
I only stayed up working past dinner time like twice - not because I didn't have work to do, but because I just know I can't do any work past like 4-5pmThis sounds realistic. I had to TA in my first year. 50-60 hours a week would be a realistic all-in estimate between class, TA responsibilities, and studying.
I will say that it was kind of hard to nail down what "studying" was during a PhD. For most people in my cohort it was just working on problem sets.