# @dr.san__ on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPG5LO-DG2q
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63505562-drsan-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/5bccff322b.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-09-27T13:45:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** San Choudhury (@dr.san__) — https://gondola.cc/dr.san__

## Caption

It’s weird because now after finally having officially graduated from my PhD and being confident enough to call myself a scholar, it feels like I’ve always been at this level. 

But truth be told, that’s definitely not the case. 

It’s taken so long to get to this point where I actually feel confident about being a scholar, a researcher. Like I genuinely cannot stress enough about the amount of time, patience, commitment to actually learn the skills and do the things that start making us feel ‘academic’ & ‘scholarly’. 

Be it reading scientific literature with ease, coming up with research questions, present our work confidently, feeling like we belong in scholarly communities, and self-identify with being a researcher, these things don’t just happen overnight as soon as you simply start doing a PhD/gradschool. So I guess this a reminder that if you’re at the start of your journey, and these things aren’t coming to you ‘naturally’ or ‘easily’, then just remember that they never do. 
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#phd #phdlife #gradschool #gradlife #academia #scholar

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scholar, gradlife, gradschool, phdlife, phd, academia

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