I can't wait to hear what Lilian's last word is! As per special request (see comment from this post), here is my original post about the dissertation last word (via this Blogos post):
"They won't call me a [student] when I get to heaven..."
And the post where I posted my actual last word (which did, BTW, survive my revisions):
Comments to these two are closed. (Too much spam.) But I invite Lilian and anyone else to share here the last word of their dissertation or masters thesis.