This Woman Gets A Maternity Photo Shoot With Her Thesis And All Students Relate
It’s that time of year again when so many students around the world are handing in their graduation thesis. This important academic achievement tests the knowledge they gained during the years spent studying and allows students to finally reap the reward of their hard work. To commemorate this important milestone, students are getting creative. Recently, a 26-year-old grad student, Sarah Whelan Curtis, stole the spotlight online by doing a hilarious maternity photo shoot after finally ‘giving birth’ to her thesis.
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Curtis, who is doing her Ph.D. at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia recently finished her thesis on epigenetics that took her 4 years to write. She broke the news by doing a maternity photo shoot with her work and sharing it on Twitter.
Her photos quickly went viral with many students relating to the idea of comparing writing a thesis to a very long labor.
Curtis told Yahoo Lifestyle that her family made remarks concerning her future plans, “I have a lot of nieces and nephews, and my mom told me, ‘Either get a Ph.D. or give me a grandchild. I got my doctorate,” she said.
After seeing so many people sharing their newborn photos, Curtis came up with a funny idea. When her thesis was due, she grabbed a baby blanket, wrapped her thesis in it, and had her husband take pictures of her ‘newborn’. So many people loved the idea that since the 4th of June, her tweet has gathered more than 252k likes and almost 50k retweets. Curtis received a lot of praise and prompted graduate students to share photos of their own ‘babies’
Here’s how people reacted
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I worked for 5 years to get my PhD 3 years on my Thesis...while pregnant and raising an infant! Defended thesis topic 6 months preggers defended thesis while son was 8 months old I graduated when my son was 11 months old.
Why would he thesis be post dated? It's dated 6/14/19 and today is only the 5th of June. Is this common practice? If so, why date it ahead of time and not date it when it was actually finished?
Aah, it is not a competition! Both are accomplishments, in their own ways (I'm team thesis, though).
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These types of things are getting old. Its not funny. Makes many think you just crave attention. Grow up and write your thesis, get a kick a*s grade, then find some humility like others do.
Its not for attention its for the people who can relate to laugh through the pain because its too relatable
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I worked for 5 years to get my PhD 3 years on my Thesis...while pregnant and raising an infant! Defended thesis topic 6 months preggers defended thesis while son was 8 months old I graduated when my son was 11 months old.
Why would he thesis be post dated? It's dated 6/14/19 and today is only the 5th of June. Is this common practice? If so, why date it ahead of time and not date it when it was actually finished?
Aah, it is not a competition! Both are accomplishments, in their own ways (I'm team thesis, though).
Load More Replies... These types of things are getting old. Its not funny. Makes many think you just crave attention. Grow up and write your thesis, get a kick a*s grade, then find some humility like others do.
Its not for attention its for the people who can relate to laugh through the pain because its too relatable
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