How I spent my time in Summer 2023

At the beginning of every new semester, I work through my master tasklist for the semester start. The first thing I always do, is to review how I spent my time in te previous semester. I then use that information to see if I need to change my weekly template, and to outline my planning and goals for the upcoming semester.

Summer 2023 was a semester spent mostly in Delft, and mostly dedicated to catching up with colleagues and students there.

Here’s how I spent my time in the past semester:

• meeting TU 13.12%
• service 10.47%
• teaching TU 9.92%
• Papers 5.80%
• Blog 5.72%
• ACI Avances 5.33%
• Career thing 5.08%
• PhD project 1 5.06%
• Fire project 4.54%
• Collaboration with colleagues from Denmark 4.51%
• PhD project 2 4.45%
• admin 3.65%
• Research 3.12%
• PhD project 3 2.86%
• Planning 1.97%
• Teaching 1.68%
• PhD project 4 1.68%
• Research project EU 1.68%
• PhD project 5 1.22%
• PhD project 6 1.12%
• email + admin 1.11%
• Research proposals 1.08%
• PhD project 7 1.03%
• contacts 0.90%
• Recycled aggregates project 0.82%
• Advice to other postdoc 0.59%
• Meetings USFQ 0.56%
• Learning 0.43%
• PhD project 8 0.26%
• Advice to other PhD student 0.15%
• Personal 0.12%

All in all, my goal for the summer was to spend time with colleagues and catch up, and I think the way I spent my time exactly reflects that.