chris martensa common pattern — and arguably failure mode — of research advising meetings is that they become essentially “status reports,” with the student trying to do everything independently between meetings, then telling their advisor what they did and their advisor giving them some kind of appraisal of that work (“good, keep going” vs “no, try something else”)
what i wish someone had told me in grad school, and what i now try to tell my students, is that you can instead view it as a “working meeting” where you (the student) get to set the agenda. have your first meeting goal be to answer the question “what are we working on today?”, not “what have you done since we last met”
HoldMyType@chrisamaphone i didnt get such work meetings till last year