I’m in the lab again today.
Someone asked me yesterday if I was feeling relieved that I got everything submitted. Suprisingly, I don’t. I just wasn’t that uptight for the last day or two, mostly because things were falling into place and I wasn’t at all concerned about meeting the deadline (that is, once I got responses from my reading committee). It was way weirder after I defended — that was an experience of constant stress and work for two months, then nothing.
It also helps that I ultimately had very few edits to do, primarily because much of my reading committee was not able to put in a detailed reading. Though, I suspect that is par for the course when it comes to dissertations.
Today I am going to lay low and mostly work on a side project (web site). I’ll also do a little digging into peer reviewed journals for the journal article I plan to write based on my dissertation. More on that in a few days.
