I am 32 and graduating tonight with my masters after a 2 year program! And just feel like I dont want to do much at all… Did anyone else feel this way after completing their degree? Like Im barely excited for graduation tonight…
I am 32 and graduating tonight with my masters after a 2 year program! And just feel like I dont want to do much at all… Did anyone else feel this way after completing their degree? Like Im barely excited for graduation tonight…
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Yup. And still 15 years after my English lit and Library Science degrees….I don’t want to read. I do audiobooks.
I didnt want to celebrate with my peers. Like I didnt go to graduation but I did with my family just over getting my free time and money back
Postgraduate blues, really normal. Was worse for the PhD, strange isn’t it?
I defended my PhD a few months ago. I thought I was going to feel so fucking excited and relieved afterward and I was just… blah. And fatigued. I laid in bed watching Seinfeld the entire afternoon.
I still haven’t experienced the elation of finishing because it still hasn’t registered that I’m done.
First of all, congrats! I hope you get to relax now that you’re done with the program.
I didn’t even get to have a graduation for my second master’s (also a two-year program) because of the pandemic so I feel you. It felt so anticlimactic, but at the same time I was relieved that my family didn’t have to travel abroad and spend money just to attend the graduation ceremony. I’ve never been into formal ceremonies anyway.
Congrats! Yeah I almost didn’t go to mine, I didn’t feel like celebrating at all. I’m glad I did, for the closure, but it didn’t feel like undergrad at all. I think that was felt across my program, lots of somber faces.
Don’t care for ceremony. Just want the degree
Affective forecasting bias.
I didn’t celebrate finishing my masters degree. When I was 3/4 way through my program, I realized I actually did not want to be in that specialty(nursing leadership) so I just acted like it was a normal day.
Nowadays I don’t even tell most people I work with that I have a masters in our field. 😅
Have 3 degrees and never went to any ceremonies.. Didn’t seem worth it to me
yes it felt surreal. I submitted my final project for my bachelor of science after a long journey and just shut off my laptop that night like that was really it.
I’m job searching now and have been reached out to about 1 interview for a part time and submitted application to a bigger role too. Still getting certificates on the side. I’m the first in my family to get a degree and I’m the only one that knows lol.
sorry not sorry but that degree was for me and to change MY life.
Yes. My family wanted to throw a party for me and I asked them not to and now I feel like that was rude. But it sounds like this may be a normal feeling. Probably heightened by the current climate you’re graduating into. Congrats though! You made it.
I had spent so many years in survival mode, where I was never caught up with assignments. Every day was scheduled and spoken for.
Then I graduated and I was just, done. I still had that constant buzzing of anxiety telling me I should be doing schoolwork, but no schoolwork. I had prepared for so long to get the job I wanted, but I honestly was just lost. It took a couple months to get used to it.
Also, I had been to so many graduations by then that I didn’t see the point in going.