Glorified Evil

So I have successfully defended my dissertation.

It feels a little wierd. This is the rite of passage to get a Ph.D., to have the prefix Dr. attached to your name — just basically a presentation of your work and handle questions on it. Why is it that I do not feel any difference between my states before and after the exam. I did not grow or learn during the defense.

Or maybe, its the many-year-long organic growth process that leads to the defense. But then why have the defense? Why not just have the dissertation peer-reviewed and thats it?

In any case, it does feel relieved to have completed.

And now to further things. Physics Education Research. I am excited about that, about learning a whole new topic and new research methods. 

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