> most modern PhD factories are sweat shops I don't know if that is universally true. This type of anecdata tends to be very program specific. I worked on the

> most modern PhD factories are sweat shops I don't know if that is universally true. This type of anecdata tends to be very program specific. I worked on the computational side of things and got paid a lot to work on (what I thought was) interesting stuff. Folks who did experimental work (especially on the bio side of things) tended to put in more hours even over the weekends because biological substrates are no respecters of leisure time. On the other hand, it's much easier to publish experimental results than to come up with a new algorithm, so many ended up with quite a few publications than I did when they graduated.