Fire vs PhD Thesis

I just passed my final PhD defense battle royale! With no thesis revisions necessary! Woo! This dissertation has been 'in progress' for nearly 3 years and countless hours in the research lab, so it totally had to be taken out:

Burn, thesis, burn!

Anyway, thanks to everyone all around -- *finally* snagged a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Illinois at age 23.

Now just three more years of med school and four more years of residency =(