1 post tagged “time stasis”
I was thinking about this on the walk to the lab the other day. I was thinking how grad school is like that bubble trap from the movie The Prisoner. It's easy to get in, once your in it's like time stops, and it's almost impossible to escape from (or at least that's how it seems to me lately). Since most of the people in grad school are essentially the same as they were in undergrad it seems as though time stops for them. When I think of people outside of the sphere of academia I picture them as they were in fourth year; this is the fundamental reason why I have such issues with my highschool friends getting married and having kids. Because I haven't matured into those things I assume no one has and am constantly surprised by life's progression outside my bubble of existence. To me time is standing still until I finish school, for others I'm sure it's barreling by at an ever-increasing speed as relationships continue and kids get older. At times I stop and think "What am I doing with my life?" I'm getting closer to 30 than I'd care to admit and have nothing to show for it! No serious, stable relationship, no kids, no real "adult" responsibilities of any kind. Nothing except the lab and all its time-sucking glory. There are exceptions to this however, a few friends have managed to go and get themselves married during school and fewer still (only one that I know personally) have managed to pop out a kid during the last years of their schooling. I am unreasonably jealous of these people. They've managed to complete grad school and beat the bubble.
Somedays I just feel like this:
