How I spent my time in Fall 2024

At the end of every semester, I look at the data in my Toggl reports to see how I spent my time.

Here’s how I spent my time in Fall 2024:

• Research proposals: 25.90%
• Conferences: 11.07%
• Teaching: 10.69%
• Service: 10.17%
• Teaching TU: 7.32%
• ACI Avances: 5.51%
• Papers: 4.05%
• Meetings: 3.20%
• Admin: 2.57%
• PhD project 1: 2.39%
• Fire safety: 2.14%
• Learning: 2.04%
• Planning: 1.91%
• BEST: 1.70%
• Research: 1.58%
• Blog: 1.33%
• PhD project 2: 1.20%
• PhD project 3: 1.19%
• PhD project 4: 0.98%
• Meeting TU: 0.67%
• Collaboration Denmark: 0.62%
• PhD project 5: 0.61%
• PhD Project 6: 0.41%
• PhD project 7: 0.26%
• PhD project 8: 0.21%
• PhD project 9: 0.12%
• Student help: 0.10%
• Collaborations: 0.03%
• Email + Admin: 0.02%

Here are a few observations from the data:

• It has been a busy semester and I have worked a lot (and also, a lot of hours, just like during the Spring, after the slightly slower Summer)
• Teaching has ramped up again, as I was teaching for both universities.
• I have mostly spent time writing proposals – I have worked on 16, 14 of which got submitted this year.
• I’ve spent relatively less time writing papers, but more time editing the papers of my PhD students, which reflects the season I am in.
• Avances took a fair amount of time – we are working on assessing which indexations to apply for, and how made major improvements to our website and workflows.
• All in all, I am quite happy with how much I achieved this semester. I knew it was going to be a lot, and I pretty much did everything I wanted to do.

How was your Fall 2024 semester?