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Depends on what program you're in? In general I think grad school (esp. the PhD level compared to Master's) typically gives the student a lot of freedom. At the PhD level often you are basically an independent researcher and might meet with your advisor once every three weeks or so.

If that were the case, and you could complete enough work to keep your advisor happy within one week, that gives you two weeks of time to use...

> might meet with your advisor once every three weeks or so.

Only if your advisor is fairly senior (ie. Not pre-tenure)!

yeah that bit didn't ring true to me either - I can't imagine Grad school being "loads of free time" unless perhaps you didn't care when/if you got your masters/PhD (and so just let everything slide).

It was definitely true for me. College didn't take that much effort in terms of learning. Most of it was busy work using the term homework.