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These are a few tips that I learnt from meeting with my own PhD Advisors and with interacting with graduate students. These tips are useful for people that are meeting with their graduate supervisors, whether they are PhD advisors or Masters supervisors.
1. Always go to their office with a least some work completed. Your job is to have at least 1 sentence completed from the last PhD meeting. You need to work during your PhD, and this is one way to make sure that you will complete your degree.
2. Do not disappear. Check in with your PhD advisors on a regular (every other week) basis. We want to make sure that you are not getting into a funk, and that you are making progress on your PhD.
3. When you are stuck on a problem, go talk to your PhD advisors. I would toil at one problem too long, and forget that I can ask people for help.
4. You can talk to PhD advisors about occasional life problems. Completing your PhD is a lot about life, and you have to deal with life issues openly.
5. Think in terms of status and time. You arrange your schedule to meet their schedule. Some advisors are not going to make arrangements for you.
6. Graduate advisors are people too. Often they will have up days, and then they will have down days. You have to role with the punches.
7. Try to smile during the graduate meeting. This helps to deal with tough meetings, and to get through tough moments.
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