does anyone else think that there is a HUGE element of this mentality in the PhD process:
'it was hard for me, so it will be hard for you.'
I think there are hordes of supervisors, post-docs, senior graduate students who think that because they struggled with poor supervision, and in overcrowded overworked conditions, it is the norm, character building, and weak to complain about it. I find this a problem generalised to a lot of fields, inside and outside academia... and it frustrates me.