{"id":10254,"date":"2013-01-10T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=10254"},"modified":"2013-01-10T08:00:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:00:38","slug":"2012-retrospective-3-finishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2013\/01\/10\/2012-retrospective-3-finishing\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Retrospective #3 (finishing)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next installment on my 2012 Retrospective series<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finishing my PhD meant the end of a lifetime school career.\u00a0 With the exception of a few months between the births of my two kids, I was a student my entire adult life.\u00a0 Until June 2012.<\/p>\n

I’m still grappling with the loss of the “student” discounts for movies and museums and so many other things…<\/em><\/p>\n

This resulted in an identity shift that’s much larger than putting aside the laminated student ID card that I carried in my wallet everyday.\u00a0 Not being a student somehow means that I’m a grown-up now, in a way that I wasn’t before.\u00a0 It gives a feeling of no longer being “in progress” but of having reached an endpoint of a journey.\u00a0 There’s something in my soul that has had a hard time accepting that feeling and figuring out what’s next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next installment on my 2012 Retrospective series: Finishing my PhD meant the end of a lifetime school career.\u00a0 With the exception of a few months between the births of my two kids, I was a student my entire adult life.\u00a0 Until June 2012. 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