So it’s been many months since I did just about anything with this site. From the time of my last post to now, a lot of things have happened, all of them centered around one thing – me entering the real world. Finally. Sadly. I did enjoy being a doctoral student, though I didn’t have a lot of money, and went mad at times. Ok, not at times, quite frequently would be more accurate.

The big news is, I got my PhD. Walked on stage, got my diploma, shook the President’s hand and all that. Though surprisingly, after my defense, my advisor walked out and said ‘Congratulations, you’ve passed!’, and I said ‘Thanks’ but inside I was like ‘Hmm…ok, so I’ve passed.’ There wasn’t like fireworks going off in my head or anything. It was almost like a normal day at a conference of some sort. My advisor did tell me that it was natural to feel this way, and if you weren’t feeling this way after the defense, you probably should have waited for a bit longer to defend your dissertation.

Having finished the degree, I packed up and came back home. The sad thing was leaving all my friends behind. Some of them were more like brothers. Hopefully, I’ll get the chance to see them again in the very near future. So finally, I enter the job market. After years of postponing it. And look what happens. The economy tanks! And it doesn’t help that my area of research and specialization is finance (quantitative finance to be exact). So I’m a Dr, with a PhD from a good department and school, and I’m unemployed. It’s only been a month since I graduated. But still, it sucks. Of course, there are other aspects of my life which suck as well, but that’s another story for another day. Suffice to say that my life is currently one big mess. Ah life!

Anyway, I got bored of looking for jobs, so I decided to return to my much neglected blog. Perhaps I should go do another PhD. Bottom line – entering the real world is not fun.