What places you at risk of both of these problems is isolation and lack of direction. In scientific subjects, where you're genetically modifying fish to play poker, or whatever goes on in those labs, you work in teams. You have gossip, interaction and a sense of shared responsibility. In subjects like mine, where the emphasis is on reading and thinking about stuff (that wasn't quite what I put in my funding application), you are afforded no such perks. It's just you, a laptop and some books.This experience of loneliness I well recognise. Which is why blogs like this are so useful as a space in which to air my frustrations and experiences. It's just a shame that, unlike Tomlin, I won't be getting paid in the process.
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