After a series of examinations or preparations, the students finally entered the postgraduate life. Some "partial subjects" graduate students were relieved and felt that they could look forward to the future and give full play to their professional expertise without being dragged down by their achievements in the college entrance examination or other vulnerable disciplines in the University. However, after meeting the tutor and starting scientific research, I found that postgraduate study also needs to balance all aspects of work and life, rather than the straight forward shown by the sentence "rush ah". Although we mentioned earlier that scientific research is risky and does not guarantee success; However, some scientific implementation of project management, time management and self-management activities can improve the possibility of success.

Before starting a job, it is necessary to recognize the baseline and expectation of the task; For example, in an action movie, the protagonists need to clarify their goals, know their partners, synchronize their tables, confirm their schedule, etc. otherwise, it is easy to lead to task failure. Generally speaking, the goal of postgraduate study is to create new knowledge through scientific methods, such as discovering new phenomena and laws, improving and producing new application tools, summarizing and obtaining new conclusions, etc. Although different disciplines pursue different goals, the core of research is to create new things. In other words, the ultimate goal of graduate school is not to educate yourself and gain knowledge, but to create knowledge for the world or other organizations. For example, although it is not the first in the world, it is also an innovation to develop the confidential production process of other institutions. Because of the need for innovation, the change of graduate students' identity from college students is to realize that reading to obtain knowledge is no longer the purpose, but the basis and means to create new knowledge. If a person's interest is to seek knowledge, he can read a university or graduate textbook under the secondary discipline classification of the Ministry of education every week until he is old, instead of choosing graduate school. From the perspective of words, the more accurate expression of postgraduate study should be "doing research".

The main object of understanding and understanding partners is their own mentor. Graduate students have a more accurate understanding of their cooperation only after they realize that the teacher's time is limited and other necessary work responsibilities. A professor's letter published in the journal Science pointed out that "I'm not your mother" [1]. The subtext is that it's important to find out the mutual expectations and responsibilities between tutors and graduate students. In fact, the position of a professor is a multi in one job: a professor must be a teacher. He needs to give lectures, prepare the syllabus, prepare exercises, exams and answer students' questions; The professor is a member of the Department and needs to participate in many meetings held by the Department to vote on some important matters in the Department; Professors also need to prepare fund applications, strive for laboratory space and equipment resources, and recruit freshmen and postdoctoral students; Academically active teachers also need to write and publish papers, peer review others' papers, give academic reports and participate in academic conferences, and conduct academic exchanges with peers; It is not difficult to see that the professor has a heavy task [2]. Professors are the tutors of graduate students and need to guide students in scientific research; But on the other hand, professors also have their own family and life, need to discipline children, deal with family affairs and so on. Because tutors have limited time, students should not have unrealistic expectations. They should expect tutors to care about their lives like their parents or friends. Such tutors are rare, and the interaction between students and tutors is more academic.

According to the division of master's or doctor's training, the time of postgraduate study is generally about three or five years, which is an activity of goal optimization under limited time and limited resources. "The Project Management Institute (PMI) defines the concept of project as follows: a term business to create independent projects, services and achievements." [3, p.31] therefore, from the perspective of time limit and objectives, postgraduate study can also be a scientific project management activity, and the main responsible person is himself. Graduate career is a multi task process, such as writing homework in class, being a teaching assistant, reading literature, doing experiments, making reports, writing papers, exercising, communicating with friends, falling in love and so on. Through the planning and implementation of research, students mainly consider the arrangement of time, because the problems of laboratory resources such as money are more decided by tutors. The college entrance examination or graduate entrance examination tells you the importance of each course by scoring. Students can often optimize the time by ranking and investing in the subjects with the greatest score improvement in the same time. However, the importance of each sub task in postgraduate study is not so simple. For example, reading literature is already very cunning: reading literature is too little to form their own ideas, and it is very difficult to establish a new model from scratch; It is possible to find that "the idea I thought of ten years ago was originally written into a novel 60 years ago" [4], which wastes a lot of research time; If you read more documents, you will have less time to carry out scientific research. New knowledge is infinite for a person's short life. It is also a waste of time if it is not effectively transported to the projects to create new knowledge. Therefore, when students go to graduate school, they need to refer to the summary of others in relevant disciplines. There are many articles such as the psychological process of the doctor of biology on the Internet, and many similar experiences of senior students and sisters can be found. The project is independent, and copying the scheme cannot guarantee success. Learning the cases of other similar projects, learning the knowledge of project management and applying it to their own projects can improve the probability of success. [3,p.34]

In project management, it is particularly important to master time and self-management. Drucker generalized the term "manager" to knowledge workers, managers and professionals, because many decisions affecting results need to be made at work [5, p.10]. People are often not good at managing their time: where a person estimates the time allocation according to memory, after recording time, it may show great differences [5, p.30]. Money unknowingly doesn't know where to spend. Bookkeeping can track these flows, record time, and help you optimize your time allocation. "Every knowledge worker, especially every manager, must be able to use time as a whole if they want to be effective. If time is separated and used sporadically, even if the total time is the same, the result time will certainly not be enough." [5, p.33] because when the brain performs tasks, it must have a certain time to warm up and enter the state. If it is switched repeatedly, the efficiency of thinking will be reduced [6, P.5], especially the cultivation of concentration and attention can improve learning efficiency and thinking in large blocks of time [6, pp. 23-25] Some interesting parents bargain for a few cents in the vegetable market, but they are encouraged to buy a lot of nutrition products for the elderly that are actually useless; some students use their spare time to recite words, but spend a lot of time playing games and watching dramas and short videos. Recreational activities are necessary to maintain physical and mental health, but if they decide to improve the efficiency of learning and thinking, they should Manage time more effectively.

The knowledge content of project management and time management does not seem difficult. The difficulty lies in the long-term or continuous implementation, especially when the habit has not been formed at the beginning. The difficulty often lies in the difficulty of overcoming the energy barrier or activation energy in the initial stage , once the breakthrough is made, you can continue to release heat to maintain this state. For example, there may be such an alarm clock invention: how many times does the dumbbell of weight lifting need to be lifted before it stops; or the smartphone app will stop the alarm clock after the owner shakes the phone more than 200 times. The alarm clock can make people start to sleep as long as it helps people break through the state of sleeping at the beginning If graduate students feel the advantages of project and time management in practice, the scientific way of self-management may be easy to maintain and improve the possibility of success of research activities.

Ordinary people don't have unlimited time and money, and life doesn't start until everything is ready. We live in an unsatisfactory situation, we can try to optimize, and we need to balance in many aspects. Postgraduates need to take into account physical and mental health and various tasks in scientific research. When traveling, you may feel that you are led by the nose by the guide, It is very tiring to travel between different scenic spots; young people prefer to make their own strategies or routes and are unwilling to accept other people's arrangements. There are thousands of roads, each with its own brilliance, which can not be covered by this short article. The time and project management suggestions written by the author here do not require postgraduates to implement, but are more like a guide to avoid stepping on thunder as a guide A reference for graduate students' work and life.