I am a graduate student going for my doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology. It seems like the more I go to school the less and less friends I have. I enjoy intellectually stimulating conversations while my friends and family find it incredibly boring. The more immersed in my discipline I become it seems like I am losing alot of my old buddies but I guess the ones that remain are worth keeping. I was just wondering if there had been any research to show a correlation between higher education and one's social life?