3 weeks into my PhD and feeling a bit overwhelmed. This semester apparently the faculty planned pretty poorly so all of the classes I'm taking are tons of work and I have to take them now or wait two years (which I don't want to do because I need the background). Second years have told me that it's definitely not normally like this so I'm hoping that I can do a lot more research next semester!! My advisor and I have a bunch of research ideas and I just don't have enough time in the week to think about every one of them. Sigh...
Thanks :) weirdly enough today was actually a great day. I was really in the zone so even though I had a bunch of classwork I also had time to think about research and make some concrete, achievable goals for the next few days. The little victories are awesome!