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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I feel like a more common reaction is "Finally I am rid of this terrible burden that I took on in my naivete. It is riddled with errors that the cruel arrow of time prevents me from rectifying. May I be lucky enough to get a publication or two out of it and then finally be rid of it forever" but maybe I'm speaking too closely to my own experience.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

No, this is the way. PhD theses are probably like having an aggressive cancer and then submitting it is like a successful surgery.