Answer by Fomite for How to have a fulfilling social life as an academic
I think you're making some unfounded assumptions in your question.what is your social life outside of academia like as a postdoc?When you ask this question, you then immediately turned back to...
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Great answers here. Looks like all the answers are US-based (from what little I know about US academia)... so let me add how it looks like from a perspective of a European research lab.Note that I say...
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The special thing for you coming out of (what seems) a pretty demanding grad school time is that being a postdoc is not so special at all. In most ways, being a postdoc is not unlike any other...
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My limited experience of postdoc life is that there can be plenty of camaraderie; it just depends. I certainly hung out with the other postdocs, got invited to their homes, met their families, at least...
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I will be a postdoc in the coming academic year. While I have not decided on where I will be in September, it seems likely that I will be a research postdoc at a decent research university.An aspect of...
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