# @life_and_sunshine on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNbA7vosdnJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63278841-life-and-sunshine-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/1adefb835d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-08-16T16:10:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Nat ☀️ (@life_and_sunshine) — https://gondola.cc/life_and_sunshine

## Caption

Best believe I’m still bejeweled ✨ Even though my PhD took me almost 6 years to complete 😂 I can still make the whole room shimmer 🪩 
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Kinda felt like this post needed to be redone, just to emphasize that it can take some people a longer time to finish their PhD than others 😇 It really depends on your country and program 😅 For me it was supposed to be a 4 year trajectory 🧭 But c0vid hit in the middle of my second year and really held me back because we didn’t have our own lab space at the time 😰
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With these delays I did manage to write an amazing review 🤩 buuuuut not even that could make up for the lost time of not being able to do lab work 🧫 and so I had to tag on a year and half to my contract to be able to finish all my experimental work 🧬 Luckily it was fully funded so I didn’t suffer too much financially 😮‍💨
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But yea… that’s basically the main reason it took me so long to finish 😅 Maybe I’ll make a post next time to explain instead of putting it in the caption 😂 Not sure if you guys read these pieces of text 🤭 But if you do! And you made it this far comment with a 🧬 emoji to let me know 😉 it’ll be our little secret 🤫
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