How to become friends with labmates
So i joined a new lab for my masters and they all seem so close that my presence in the room always makes things feel awkward as they stop talking. They don’t invite me to things and prefer to talk amongst themselves. But to me, 1:1s they seem like they like me and even lowkey say not nice things about the others.
For instance, There’s this postdoc fellow who trained me and while they’re very nice, i can tell how they prefer speaking to the lab members and doesn’t realllyy talk to me unless they have to for training - no small talk really like i have to say hi or something like that. But they were saying something how this other lab members rarely comes BUT to their face seems like they’re lowkey in love with them (like veryy nice, helpful, and does whatever they want). So I find it hard to make any conversations with them as they don’t seem reciprocating.
Anyways I just feel so awkward all the time like i’m ruining the vibe and I feel so uncomfortable being here. What should I do?