It makes me seriously sad when people say that their occupation takes all their time, they have no time off and no time for what we call "life". It's not neces

It makes me seriously sad when people say that their occupation takes all their time, they have no time off and no time for what we call "life". It's not necessarily mutually exclusive. All the grad students I've known tend to find plenty of time to socialize, if they want to. They just think about schedules in different terms than most people with jobs. A grad student will have some sort of deadline (a paper to submit, a conference to prepare for, etc) and won't hesitate to spend an entire holiday working on it. But then when it's done, they'll throw a party or go camping or whatever, and they'll still take out time here or there for dinner/movie/exercise/etc. along the way.