No one told me how lonely this would be.
Coursework had structure. Classes. Cohort. Shared misery. 📚
But the dissertation? It's just me. In my office. Staring at a screen. Writing words that no one will read for months. Maybe years.
I went weeks without talking to anyone about my research...
I'm in year four. Year. Four.
My advisor says I'm close. My committee says I'm close. But I look at my word count and feel nothing.
I've been working on this for so long that I've lost all perspective. Is my argument even coherent? Do my chapters connect? Did I write that sentence three years...
