[24/M] Brazil — grad student looks for other grad students (or academically-inclined people)

I am doing a master in social sciences and I just returned from an (international — or rather, Latin American) conference and this made me curious about hearing the perspectives of grad students from other countries (or even academically minded people in general) — a bit because I think about going abroad for my PhD (for various reasons — sort of a fixed idea since I was a teen, but I do think this kind of thing can be productive, and so on), but also because I have been very frustrated with the state of my department, lack of seriousness/engagement from some colleagues/classmates, and I wonder if that is the same around the world and in other disciplines (I guess, from what I saw in the congress, that it is).

As for me, I am 24 years old. Besides social sciences (here better understood as sociology, history, and maybe anthropology), I am very interested in reading (especially literature, though I haven’t read a literature book for quite a while), writing (mostly poetry), philosophy, cinema, watching series, walking (try to walk at least 10k steps every day), traveling, listening to music (pretty eclectic taste — from tango, samba, and classical music to hip hop and Olivia Rodrigo), language learning, learning about different cultures, and cuisine (I am a terrible cook, but a good critic — not a good combination, they say). I’d say I am a very eclectic person — I have cried while watching both Truffaut and Despicable Me. Besides English and Portuguese, I can speak good (or decent) French, and I am learning German, and working on my (almost non-extant) Spanish.