Right now I’m working on getting my business off the ground. If this experience is akin to your post-dissertating life, I’d have to agree with your professor. As unexpected as it may seem, things can get busier and more intense once you actually apply all you’ve learned!

Next fall I hope to and intend to start on my master’s program in Written Coimmunications. So, I’m sure, I’ll be running headlong into an even higher level of busy. But, I’m hoping I’ll have adjusted to this level by then and be ready for more.

What are you planning on doing post-dissertation?

It’s so hard to find a balance between school and life for me lately — I think it’s partly because school is (and really, has always been) my life in a large way. I don’t know how *not* to do school.

I can only imagine what post-dissertating life will be like. Actually, more than one assistant professor has said that it only gets worse…

Big respect to the protest.

Yes, the signs in that path were probably unavoidable. Very “in your face”, to coin an expression.

While I’m not quie to the dissertation stage (not that far along in school), I just completed my Capstone project and it was life-consuming. I had done so much prepatory work that I expected that it should be relatively easy. But there was just so much information–sorting through it all and processing it for output was all-consuming.

It passes. Just be sure to schedule yourself some much needed relaxation time when you’re done.