{"id":115,"date":"2012-11-26T19:38:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T19:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solesadmissions.wordpress.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2012-11-26T19:38:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T19:38:53","slug":"the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/solesadmissions\/2012\/11\/26\/the-end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of an era&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a whirlwind of a semester.\u00a0\u00a0Just this past week I submitted the rough draft of my dissertation proposal to my chair.\u00a0\u00a0I was chatting with a doc student I started with, and she asked me what it felt like to see a document that was titled \u201cricedissertationproposal\u201d and I realized that I was approaching the end.\u00a0\u00a0Coming to the end of a program certain evokes a range of emotions&#8211; elation, fear, and exhaustion.\u00a0\u00a0Making the transition from student to candidate is bittersweet.\u00a0\u00a0Schooling has been the focus of my energies for so long that it would be nice to bake, or knit, or watch TV, but on the other hand it sad.\u00a0\u00a0I love school.\u00a0\u00a0I am a teacher; I am a student.\u00a0\u00a0This marks the end of an era for me.\u00a0\u00a0But, not until I defend that proposal\u2026<br \/>\nTo learn more about what alumni of the PhD program have written their dissertations on, follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiego.edu\/soles\/programs\/leadership_studies\/academic_programs\/doctoral_program\/dissertation_directory.php\" target=\"_blank\">the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a whirlwind of a semester.\u00a0\u00a0Just this past week I submitted the rough draft of my dissertation proposal to my chair.\u00a0\u00a0I was chatting with a doc student I started with, and she asked me what it felt like <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/solesadmissions\/2012\/11\/26\/the-end-of-an-era\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60496,35186,62805,45850],"tags":[63305,63620,63901,60706,64221,64348],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-studies","category-phd","category-soles-ambassadors","category-student-perspective","tag-defense","tag-dissertation","tag-dissertation-proposal","tag-leadership-studies-2","tag-phd-students","tag-rachels-posts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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