Predictions

'"Listen," she said, "I've never seen anyone in your stage of graduate school who has felt good — physically or mentally. I'm just not sure it's possible for you to be wrapping up your diss, looking for a job, teaching, and feeling calm and healthy.'

This quote was said by a therapist to a doctoral student in sociology and appeared in a column that I daily read from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

I am still debating whether I should find this therapist's comment to an ABD reassuring or not or if it's an omen of what is to come.