Loneliness seems to struck most post graduate students. I have started my PhD a month ago and I can honestly say that making friends is much, much harder than it was as an undergraduate. Whomever I talk seems to be distracted or have already enough friends that they don't seem to want to chat or have a talk. Everyone seems so distant and occupied or sometimes just plain rude. I know that doing PhD is hard but shunning the new guy in the department does take its tall on you, you know and I am not around here. I came from overseas to a new country so I have no friends here to talk or have a cup of coffee with....

It feels as if this PhD is going to be a long and self-crushing one