It took you 16 months to get your PhD approved?!?

How come it took 21 months to get your PhD approved? It must have been a disaster…or something else.

So, this week, I’m in the UK and if all things went to plan, I graduated and officially received my PhD last Saturday. This has been a decade-long endeavor. There are so many milestones on the way to this moment that writing this in anticipation of March 28, I wonder if it will feel anti-climactic, or if I will just sigh in relief, or cry getting all my emotions out from what has tested my mind, soul, and spirit every step of the way.