After years of grinding through revisions and defenses, graduation often feels like relief rather than celebration. The speaker recommends taking weeks or months to breathe and reassess who you've become, rather than rushing into the next thing.
After years of work, graduation can feel anticlimactic, and that's so much more common than anyone talks about. You have spent so long in the trenches revisiting, revising, rewriting, and by the time you cross the stage, part of you is just relieved that it's over. And so the big celebration that you imagined might not actually fit how you feel in the moment. This is why finishing is not the time to just jump immediately into the next thing. A week off isn't enough. It's really important you give yourself like several weeks or months to just breathe and figure out who you are now because you're a different person than who you were when you started this journey. Comment scholar and we'll send you the link to our free Scholar Career Network. You've got this.
