I can't believe this process is over. I thought I would wake up this morning and realise "It's done". But I didn't, I woke up feeling the same. People told me it would be an anti-climax, and they were right.
If I think about the hell that have been the past few months, all of those feelings of being inadequate, the paralysing self-doubt... How can I not be crying out of happiness right now?!?
I guess it'll take a while to sink in. I think I'll also take a while to realise this is the biggest thing I've done in my life, and it might be just silly academia, but it's something.
Yesterday I voiced for the first time something I've known for a few months: I can safely say I will never, ever, be an academic.
And that's a fact.