Add It Up
All the papers and books you read.
All the hours on all the days you showed up and worked.
All the words on all the pages that you wrote, rewrote, proof-read and wrote again.
All the meetings with your supervisor.
All the new things you found and created.
All the ideas that weren’t there before.
You bring all of that together and it means a lot. There’s always more or different things to do. There are always questions to be asked at the viva. But if you add up everything you did you can be sure that you have a contribution.
And you can be reminded that that contribution exists because of you.