It’s been sometime into my Ph.D. – a roller coaster of emotions – last of the phrases that could sum up my journey. Before I delve more into it, the pandemic toppled my health, like any other, and found it incredibly difficult getting back to normalcy. Although, I tend to stray away from repenting on that, and perhaps wearing it like armor helped me to move forward. On the other hand, during the pandemic, I researched more on why people started the concept of a Ph.D. and what it takes to be a Ph.D. student. As far as my understanding goes, it’s a framework designed to study the observations that were made, and obtain a structure while understanding nature’s play. In fact, I also thought more about the expansion – The Doctorate of Philosophy, and that gave me a profound sense of a gap. The framework has been quite instrumental in amassing your thoughts and connecting the dots with the observations. The gap that haunts me - the advent of peer-reviewed journals, tenure tracks, and things