As a group, we’re good
I realised yesterday and today that there are a lot of people here I will really miss, and the community aspect of being here I will miss. For various reasons, I spent little time in the department this semester, but the past two days I have and it just struck me. I like my cohort. We used to go out to dinner, get together to see movies . . . I like other people in this department. And I know that I will never see most of them again. I’ll be away for two weeks, and then here in May, but moving. I said goodbye to some people realising this was probably a real, forever one.
April 19th, 2004 at 11:39 am
Oh, man, that’s hard. As someone who has moved away from friends (or had them move away from me) far too many times, I feel for you. (And of my geographically close friends from grad school — I still like them, but we have very little to talk about these days, which makes me sad.) I hope that a few of them will still want to stay in touch, and that you find additional fab friends wherever you end up next. :)
April 19th, 2004 at 2:15 pm
Academia and Friendship
There are lots of useful thoughts over at wolfangel these days. Friday she posted about realizing that she’s going to miss many of her friends and colleagues from her department, and how she will likely never see them again. As
April 19th, 2004 at 9:32 pm
There aren’t that many people *I* will want to stay in touch with. And the distance “How’s work? Fine, how’s the dissertation?” will grow. It’s the summer camp thing, a lot.
I have an absolutely amazing group of friends back home, who I will stay in touch with if later they or I move away.