When the happy day of your graduation comes, hopefully you’ll have acquired a great amount of knowledge and skills to succeed in your next adventure, academic or professional.

Here’s a sample checklist of skills you may acquire throughout your degree. There’s no one right way to do a PhD, so if you’re not interested in certain aspects, that’s okay. These are just knowledge and skills you may acquire during this time. Perhaps you want to make your own checklist depending on what matters for you.