Your work is nothing if you don't become part of the community. As much as the lone genius meme can be appealing when you're a PhD student, academia is the real

Your work is nothing if you don't become part of the community. As much as the lone genius meme can be appealing when you're a PhD student, academia is the realm of anonymous reviews, grant-based survival and kafkaesque bureaucracy. If you don't fit into a research community which will give you support, that's all you'll be left with. That and a stack of worthless papers.