A lot of departments aren't run like a big corporation. It's more like a startup in someone's garage. A lot of our physics labs were just a room with a laser in

A lot of departments aren't run like a big corporation. It's more like a startup in someone's garage. A lot of our physics labs were just a room with a laser in it. Or even better, a room with a lot of radioactive stuff in it and scary signs outside it. A lot of corners get cut and IT is the first. Usually the IT is run by a grad student on some laptop they bought at the bookstore or cobbled together Raspberry Pis.