Advice from current PhD students

When cleaning my desk today I found some notes I had scribbled at the welcome event back in September. Three current PhD students gave the following advice:

1. There is no fixed way! It is my research and that’s exciting.
2. Don’t go too hard on the books in year one. Days, weeks, months without progress is normal. You don’t have to work evenings.
3. Year one is for experimenting, it probably won’t end up in my thesis. See it as an opportunity to get settled in – and for reading!