‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student mental health crisis

Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by omk on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:57AM (#19412813)

This was a Data Science program by TU/e and Tilburg hosted in Den Bosch. To be very honest I saw friends at TU/e relating well with their program and even manging trips to Spain while the folks in my program very occupied with mostly procedural assignments and struggled to find time to go out for drinks. This could very well be a one off thing because my program had a huge number of drop-outs through the first and second semester.

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Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by mathattack on Sunday March 17, 2019 @09:34AM (#19413936)

Cross functional programs are frequently suffer because they’re treated as cash cows by the university, but no home department owns giving them enough attention. A wise friend once advised “beware interesting grad programs.” (Example: MIT has world class engineering, and a Top 10 business school. The anecdotal reviews I’ve heard from graduates of both are higher than joint engineering-business programs, even if the latter look better on paper)

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Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by skrebbel on Sunday March 17, 2019 @05:00AM (#19412998)

Woa that's pretty shit. I'm well aware of the fanfare with which they announced that program so it disappoints me that your experience is so bad.

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