It's one thing to study abroad and have the chance to exchange ideas of any kind with the people you meet and if you actually take advantage of that chance or not. But it's another when you bring a built-in censorship-system with you to a country that has a "mostly" (but for how long?) free internet. In that way even when you go to another country and have the chance to experience other culture's views on the world, everywhere you connect to the internet you will still be slave to the censorship that is put upon you.
Schlagwort: Uni
Censoroam.
Staubsauger statt Wasserhahn.
So, you think about new things that you can do with vacuum cleaners. So, first, you're like: I can use a vacuum cleaner to clean bookshelves! That'd be super-useful! But then you do a Google Scholar search and it turns out that someone else did that like ten years ago.
OK, your next idea: I can use a vacuum cleaner to clean cats! That'd also be super-useful. But, alas, a bit more searching in the literature reveals that someone tried that, too, but they didn't get good results. You're a confident young grad student, so you decide that, armed with some additional techniques that you happen to know, you might fix the problems that the other researcher had and get vacuuming cats to work. You spend several months on it, but, alas, it doesn't get you any further.
Yasha Berchenko-Kogan answers to What do grad students in math do all day?
Be curious. Pick a subject you like.
For a few seconds I considered writing an article "How to enjoy university." - or even a book maybe. But then I realized that all knowledge I could share about this topic is easily summarized.
Cya. Again.
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