How many days a week are you in, and do you have your own office/workspace?

I actually haven't told anyone that I have been awarded the studentship. Perhaps the issue is that I don't feel many of these people are my friends, but rather course-mates I've shared a few experiences with. I think I've formed negative impressions of them from the way they seem very hungry for success and enjoy advertising anything and everything. It's actually stopped me from wanting to socialize with many of them because rather than talk about research we're mutually interested in, a focus falls onto how much they want to achieve. I feel it's a bit OTT for my liking, but perhaps they are just more competitive than me. Their behaviour often seems quite crass and narcissistic... maybe I am a snob! I don't think I've consciously played any kind of games to get where I want to be, I've just shown interest in the areas and worked hard. I'm terrible at networking if networking translates as being sycophantic. I'm awful at brown nosing! My mind wanders off to wanting to think about the research rather than securing my place on the basis of shallow ostentatious interactions with 'big names'. I don't know if in the long run I'm heading towards being ostracized because I'm not patient with people who I feel are playing games. I'm not sure if anyone else thinks like me, perhaps I'll have to adapt...

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May be a bit of a strange question, but how did any of you inform others that you were going to do a PhD? I've just been awarded a studentship and I'm unsure whether it's polite to announce it to others on my masters course. I ask because it seems usual practice for people to announce such things on Facebook and be met with 50 Likes etc. That doesn't feel very 'me', seems a bit awkward for people who didn't win studentships to read something like that.

How did you tell others that you were going to do a PhD?