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+title: "Achievement 'PhD' unlocked"
+categories: research rust
+---
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+It is done!
+My dissertation is finally complete.
+So if you always wanted an in-depth account of my research on Rust (and more),
+[you can go read my dissertation](https://people.mpi-sws.org/~jung/thesis.html).
+With its almost 300 pages, it should keep you busy for a while. ;)
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+This also means that after more than six years, my time as a PhD student has come to an end---in fact, I was a student for more than 10 years and that time is also over.
+What a strange feeling.
+
+To make this even stranger, hardly anything will actually change right now.
+Due to the pandemic, my plans of changing cities (continents even) have been postponed.
+The most immediate effect is that I can finally switch from writing and editing to more technical work (in particular, work that does not involve dealing with LaTeX...).
+I have been looking forward to this for quite some time now.
+I'll be looking into some topics that I have not worked on so far, so there will be lots of reading and learning and that is all very exciting.
+But don't worry, I will also still be doing Rusty things.
+
+I am not sure what the next 10 years will bring, but they will have a really hard time to surpass the previous 10, and that is mostly thanks to the wonderful people around me.
+A huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported me on this journey and made it the time of my life. :-)