promoted

This morning I was promoted to Full Professor.

This came as a pleasant surprise not because of the result, but because I thought it was something for the very end of May. (Despite actually working in the Provost’s Office, I’ve obviously needed to be kept completely in the dark about my own case.) It’s typical of Provost Haroun that this happened in an email stamped 4:30 AM; that’s how hard he works.

What strikes me as most significant about this moment is that it’s the end of a 25-year period (since graduating from high school) in which there was always some next degree or next promotion looming on the road. It’s a relaxing sensation to be done with all that. There are still plenty of other things to worry about, but never again these particular sorts of things.