nobody is here! This room is as desolate as this home.

and the situation is the same even it is extended to the whole hometown.

It's 14.5 C now, feeling so cold.

because I just washed tomattos with the freezing cold water.

And of course, I am so hungry. Hunger is really an incessant trouble.

I think a home without food can never gather people. Food is the power of home.

I think cold shower isn't that advantageous as described on web.

It makes me feel freezing cold even now over 4 hours later.

It's quite curious what one can earn gold for. I remain continually unable to guess which questions will get lots of interest and which get little.

@jakebeal I'm amazed by the number of questions that could have been instead asked to the advisor, the student office or a senior student (or answered with a bit of common sense).

@MassimoOrtolano Which is why we have a specific close reason for (most of) those …

@Wrzlprmft I dunno. Many, if not most of the questions that we have about authorship, publishing, research, and teaching are questions that I did discuss with my advisor or with my fellow PhD students in the lab when I was a student (or I'd have discussed if needed) and I now discuss with my students. Or I tell them where to find the answer (which office, document etc).

(And now I first discuss with the closest colleagues)

@MassimoOrtolano Even if 95% of people have good advice sources nearby, that still leaves a lot of question sources. And in a lot of places, there's a legitimate lack of perspective based on being in some sort of bubble, e.g., nobody near you has studied in the US or everybody near you is in a particular STEM sub-culture.

@MassimoOrtolano Ah, yes, I was more thinking along the lines of questions that should have been asked to the advisor, an office, etc., and can only be asked to those, i.e., depends on individual factors

@jakebeal You're probably right. In retrospective, I know people who never set foot outside their home university and seldom participate to conferences. Not only do they live in a bubble, but the bubble has also a short radius.

Which brings me to the question: how can someone, nowadays, pursue an academic career while leaving in a bubble?

@MassimoOrtolano At least in my country, you almost cannot. There are almost no permanent academic jobs below professorship (or similar) and you almost cannot get a professorship without leaving your bubble. Actually, most bubble dwellers I know are from older times when things were different.

@Wrzlprmft In my university and some others around Italy in STEM fields, PhD students are now strongly encouraged to spend from 6 months to 1 year abroad, and this is certainly positive (it's an opportunity that I didn't have when I was a PhD student 20 years ago, even though I travelled enough for shorter periods). For a professorship position, it's not yet clear to what extent leaving the bubble is helpful.

And there is probably an abyss between STEM and the humanities: in the latter case, there are probably many more small bubbles.