Three things every doctoral student needs to finish strong: ✅A chair who actually supports your work. ✅Committee members aligned with your research — not opposing it. ✅An accountability partner who’s in the trenches with you. I’m focusing on the third prong today. When I was a doctoral student, my accountability partner and I swapped chapter drafts, pushed each other, and both wrote our dissertations in about six months. That peer support made ALL the difference. Yes, hiccups happen. Feedback de