# @life_and_sunshine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQe7fohiOrs
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63278638-life-and-sunshine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-31T18:14:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Nat ☀️ (@life_and_sunshine) — https://gondola.cc/life_and_sunshine

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Vulnerable post!! 🥺 Please be nice! 🥹
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My post yesterday had me reflecting on the end of my PhD 🎓 And this moment popped up into my head 🧠 It was a really crazy time for me 😵‍💫 I had just started my new job in industry 👩‍🔬 Trying to learn a new subject and new work culture 🥼 But also trying to prepare as well as I possibly could to defend the science I had been working on for the past 5.5 years 🫨
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It took everything I had 🥺 And I really felt like I was working 2 jobs at once 🥸 because I kinda was 😬 40h a week at my day job and all other hours of the night and weekend on my “passion project” (seeing as I wasn’t getting paid for my PhD anymore) 🙈
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Eventually the nerves just got to me and I cried 😭 But I somehow managed to hide it 🤫 which I’m not sure I would recommend now but I know why I did it in the moment so I understand if that’s what you would do too 😅
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I’m really happy my defense is done now 😊 and I’ll never have to worry about my PhD EVER AGAIN! 😮‍💨 Cause it’s done 😁 and now I’m Doctor Nat 🤩
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