note that a PhD in a computer science department is going to be much less bad than the humanities PhDs described in the article.
- they are fully funded, stipends are somewhat higher (at least not total starvation level), and there is the opportunity for lucrative industry internships
- students in general have leverage, because it's possible to leave and go get a high paying engineering job
- there's a bias towards continuing in academia but it's not taboo to go to industry; you don't have to lie about this.
- for a combination of these and other reasons, i don't think an abusive culture has set in: professors don't feel like they need to haze their students.
i don't mean to imply that everything is beautiful and perfect but it is way less culty.
note that a PhD in a computer science department is going to be much less bad than the humanities PhDs described in the article.
- they are fully funded, stipends are somewhat higher (at least not total starvation level), and there is the opportunity for lucrative industry internships
- students in general have leverage, because it's possible to leave and go get a high paying engineering job
- there's a bias towards continuing in academia but it's not taboo to go to industry; you don't have to lie about this.
- for a combination of these and other reasons, i don't think an abusive culture has set in: professors don't feel like they need to haze their students.
i don't mean to imply that everything is beautiful and perfect but it is way less culty.