> There is way too much disconnection in academia. It depends. Sometimes there is, when you sit among 500 mostly disinterested peers in a lecture hall and lect

> There is way too much disconnection in academia. It depends. Sometimes there is, when you sit among 500 mostly disinterested peers in a lecture hall and lecturer is taunting you that he is there to make half of you fail. And sometimes you stay in the lab late into the night because you know, that your advisor needs these results to extend his grant money. And all your lab-mates are like "But you are just a master's student, you shouldn't care about this publish-grant-cycle BS untill second year of your PHD!" and you can have many in-betweens.