Is occupational journaling a waste of time or a good idea?

[jennifer_bloom]

My professor said PhD students who kept a journal log of their daily research activities sped up their graduation speed by over 1/3 so he made us write journals of our daily activities when we studied with him. I just think that my journal might take over 8 hours to write each week cause I do so many different things during my writing process.

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I'm not a PhD student and only did a partial semester of graduate training when we mutually decided I was not ready for graduate school and was not interested in it either.

[JeffersonA]

Ouch teachers at that level are awful sometimes often making you do so much extra work!

Try and see why he wants you to what does he think you will learn or grow from doing this.

Answering this often saves work and you learn the lesson so much faster. An answer is you get in the habit of writing things down so you won't forget which is a good thing for a journalist.

a lot of them use voice recorders or just voice to text now to take notes daily

[bernhardh]

Eh, you are too brainy for this job ;(