09 Mayıs 2016, Pazartesi
saat: 19:30
People will joke that graduate school is a good way to hide from the real world, but I’ve probably done more courageous things and become more of an adult in graduate school than I thought I would when I sat in this very office five and a half years ago struggling to fully understand my scope and epistemology readings. On top of that, I did the research, I traveled to the places I knew nothing about, read countless books, spent endless hours in the library, had a ridiculous amount of stress, and eventually wrote 420 pages for my dissertation... and it's done. My dissertation is done.
*cue the confetti*
Dr. B, sent the draft to the committee members this morning, with the following sentence:
"She needs to defend for by June 30 to receive her salary for next year at the professor level."
Whoa! Doesn't it just feel so surreal to be so close to being "a professor"? Of course I need to pass my defense before that, and of course just the thought of it is enough to send chills down my spine, but at the same time I’m at a point in my work flow where I don’t even have the energy to be anxious about this just yet -so whatever. I'll just take a deep breath and wait for a while. And I'm sure Dr. K. will have no trouble finding me more work to do on our paper. But the good news is I feel better about my ability to get this thing written in a month. So hopefully my vacation will actually end up being a vacation.
Yes. One deadline complete, only a hundred more to go.
