# @life_and_sunshine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ4bh8ICFH2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63278530-life-and-sunshine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-10T15:55:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Nat ☀️ (@life_and_sunshine) — https://gondola.cc/life_and_sunshine

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I know the requirements for graduating with a PhD vary widely from university to university 🔀 I just wanted to share my story and my experience with all of you 😊
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Since my recent post about thinking publications shouldn’t be necessary for graduating with a PhD 🎓 drew such a wide range of views from all of you 🤓 I wanted to share what my experience was with having to publish as a PhD student 👩‍🔬
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I know from my stories that I was on the far end of the scale of number of publications needed to graduate 😅 And maybe that’s why I’m such an advocate for not needing to publish during your PhD 📑 But I can’t say that doing so many studies made me any better of a researcher than having truly focused on one issue would have made me 😅 
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I studied many things but I think it could have been much more in depth on a lot of things 🧫 than I truly had the time for because I had to just publish and move on to the next thing 😕 I still think PhD’s should strive to publish their work in one way or another 😊 I just don’t think it should hold them back from getting a title they very much deserve! 🤩
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