diff --git a/simopt/experiment/single.py b/simopt/experiment/single.py
index 10af5fcc..d6b911ef 100644
--- a/simopt/experiment/single.py
+++ b/simopt/experiment/single.py
@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@
     from pandas import DataFrame as DataFrame
 
 # Setup the experiment directory
-SIMOPT_TOPLEVEL = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
-EXPERIMENT_DIR = SIMOPT_TOPLEVEL / "experiments" / time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
+EXPERIMENT_DIR = Path.cwd() / "experiments" / time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
 # Make sure the experiment directory gets created
 # TODO: move this into __init__