The End

I’ve heard from so many people that somehow, magically, things just come together all at once at the end of your Ph.D., even if nothing has worked for years.  Of course, I didn’t believe them.

I was wrong.

In the past four months, I:

• submitted a manuscript
• had said manuscript accepted five days after submission
• wrote my dissertation, start to finish, in two weeks
• defended my dissertation
• graduated
• went on post-doc interviews
• accepted a post-doc position, after agonizing over my options for weeks

Suffice to say, it’s been a bit of a whirlwind these past few months, but, to quote a 90s staple, it finally seems like everything’s coming up Milhouse.