Word: isolationism
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The isolation can be a benefit as well, they say.
The need for a partner has always been the bane of chess players. While in forced isolation in the gulag, Natan Sharansky played chess against himself in his head. It kept him sane. (It had the added benefit, he likes to note, of providing him with a lift. "I always...
Deep Springs is probably the most remote college in America. The nearest town is an hour off--not that it matters, because students agree to a self-imposed "isolation policy" during the school term.
And this new outlook has allowed Dougherty to move from isolation to connection with the larger Cambridge community.
"I and many of my classmates struggled with bouts of unhappiness, confusion and isolation in both academic life and personal life...in which we found the existing advising structure to be quite unhelpful," Pollack says.