Hi. I got my PhD last July 18. This means that the PhD 2023 Project is a success! There's nothing much to say. It was a rollercoaster ride. After several challenges, it was done. People were happy for me, they were congratulating me. But honestly, I'm just relieved. It dragged on longer than it should and towards the end I was just waiting. I was bored with nothing to do. Maybe one of these days I will write a longer reflection of the journey but I just wanted to formally end it. Hence this post.
This is the greatest love story ever told (and still being written). And I’m living in it! Since this blog has been instrumental in making it happen, it’s only fitting that I post it here. And so when people (me included) think it happened so fast, it’s actually years in the making. Having this blog fast tracked the “getting to know” stage. At least, that’s the logical part of me talking. But love is rarely logical. How it started A day after final exams for the summer term of AY 2023-2024, I received a bunch of anonymous emails. At first, I shrugged it off as a newsletter that I signed up to. A couple emails later, it became clear that it came from one of my former students. Didn’t know it was her until August 2nd. Realized feelings were mutual the day after. Made the relationship official on August 7th. I was the one who asked because “she didn’t wanna cross the line”. I used to say, in this blog , that I’m only interested in how couples get together, not really what’s ...
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