'Even little interactions at work helped me feel part of a community.' This PhD student stepped out of his comfort zone, making an effort to socialize with colleagues. Read his story in this week's ScienceWorkingLife:
“Do you want to go to Sunday brunch?” It was a question I’d never dared ask an office mate, but I was feeling desperate. I’d relocated from Denmark to the United States 2 months earlier for a research abroad experience during my Ph.D. I hadn’t made any friends by that point so I decided to ask another Ph.D. student in my office whether they’d meet up outside work. He looked at me, smiled, and then uttered “Yes.” It was a little thing, but it was a victory.
It had happened twice before. The first time was immediately after medical school when I took a job at a small hospital in Greenland. I had always wanted to go to the island, and the challenge of living in a small, isolated community and doing my best to help people appealed to me. But I had barely put my feet on Greenlandic soil before something felt wrong. Despite working with open and friendly colleagues, I never felt I belonged and was lonely and sad.
Still, the initial few months were difficult. Finding myself in a foreign country without my habitual life terrified me. I felt I had to learn everything from scratch—where do I get my groceries? How do I get to work? If my sister was busy, who could I spend time with? It didn’t help that students were largely away from campus for the first 2 months—first because classes weren’t in session and later because Atlanta was hit by a wave of COVID-19.
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