Yearly Check-in Preparation

The yearly check in is a time for us to review, reflect on, and communicate about your progress through the PhD.

Slide Deck

In preparation, please reflect on the last year and future and prepare a slide deck or document using the outline below for inspiration (unless the bullets are marked as required, you do not need to respond to all of them).

Please send it to me at least 48 hours before our meeting so that I can review it. Note that you can just paste this into slides.com here and it will automagically generate the slides so that you can fill them in.

## Accomplishments in the last year
- Summarize the progress that you made in the last year:
  - Research discoveries/conclusions
  - Papers submitted and published
  - Conferences and workshops attended
  - Courses taken
  - Internships
  - TA/TF positions
  - Other activities such as mentoring, reviewing, and outreach

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## PhD Progress and Challenges
- Do you think you've made adequate progress on your PhD this year?
- Any challenges that have made it difficult to progress in your PhD that you would like to discuss with me
- On a day-to-day basis, what occupies your thoughts about your PhD most? Examples:
    - Mastering specific technical concepts
    - Doing more impactful research
    - Breaking down the PhD into daily chunks
    - How my work compares to the work of others around me
    - Becoming a world-class researcher recognized for expertise in a particular field
    - Balancing PhD work and other things in life
    - Future career goals

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## Planning for the next year
- What projects do you expect to be working on in the Spring, Summer, and Fall?
- What publications do you expect to submit and when?
- Do you expect to take on any other significant responsibilities? (Make sure to indicate the relative priorities of this and the items above)
- How do you plan to address any challenges or disappointments you faced in the past year?
- If you could work on any project at all, what would it be like? (is it hardware/computational/theoretical, etc.) (note: it is probably not possible to do this, but I want to optimize as much as possible)

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## Future
- What do you plan to do after your PhD?

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## Timeline and Requirements

**REQUIRED** (These are questions on the department's evaluation form that I will need to fill out and you will need to sign)

- "Please list all uncompleted required coursework and the expected timeline for completion"
- "Please provide a detailed plan outlining the expectations for completing the Preliminary Exam" [Preliminary Exam](https://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/academics/graduates/phd-advising#expand-98405)
- "Please provide a detailed plan outlining the expectations and timeline for completing Comprehensive Exam" [Comprehensive Exam](https://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/academics/graduates/phd-advising#expand-61455)
- "Please provide a detailed plan outlining the expectations and timeline for completing the Final
Exam" [Defense](https://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/academics/graduates/phd-advising#expand-58994)

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## Advising relationship
- In what ways are our interactions most/least helpful?
- Would you like me to do anything differently going forward?
- Are there specific ways that I can help you push youself to achieve our goals next year?

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## Anything else that you'd like to talk about