Time flies...dissertationversary!

XKCD 1403It's hard to believe, but five years have passed since the successful defense of my dissertation. Where does the time go? My defense was on July 7, my final accepted manuscript was published on August 11th. I guess that's my pubaversary? 🤔 The degree was ultimately conferred in October, given university timelines, so I guess I also have a degreeaversy coming up😂. Anyway, I count July as being the definitive date for degree completion because all the rest is really administrativia. This only means one thing: I can now delete my scratch files, notebooks, recodings, transcripts, notes, and other raw research data collected from this research. Athabasca (at the time, at least) required that we keep our data for five years after conferral of the degree. That seemed fair enough. I guess if someone wanted to verify what I did for some reason, they had time to do so within these five years (I suspect that this is the reason for data retention). In speaking to other doctoral students…