ABSTRACT
The graduate students’ disengagement from social activities reflects pressure of work. The change in the research student’s perception of his role arises in part simply from the fact that he has graduated, but in part from changes in the nature of his work and his relationships with the academic staff. For some students, another factor in their changed perception of themselves is their participation in the teaching of undergraduates. Science students generally act as demonstrators, supervising undergraduates in their laboratory work. The relationship between the postgraduate and undergraduate is one of segregation. Language students may act as instructors, other students in arts and social studies may take undergraduate classes. Loneliness is more frequently a problem for the students in arts than in science or technology; indeed for the scientist or technologist the problem is sometimes quite the reverse.
