For the past three years, I would hear again and again the advice “The best dissertation is a done dissertation” and wonder what that would feel like. Yesterday, I felt it. 
I defended my doctorate on March 16 and my advisor Laura Perna hooded me on May 14. But it was the moment I found my dissertation on ProQuest Dissertations that I finally felt done! This was the database I used again and again during the writing process and seeing my finished work there feels wonderful.
