This can't be real because I don't want to beleive it's real.

But thank you for sharing this story. As a young academic it's important we get to see how these opportunities are made. They're build through hard work over many years.

Such an interesting thread. I'm about to start my PhD in public health soon and I'm joining an already ongoing longitudinal project that's been going on for 6 years already. I feel like I could spend my whole life to crawling through the data because it's got so much depth.