Pros
They listen to us cry about how difficult it is to get child care as a student, how housing and cost of living every year becomes more and more unaffordable, how it becoming more and more unsustainable to stay as an academic. Caltech is a very tight knit community and word travels fast
Cons
After listening to us complain, instead of raising our salaries and stipends, they offered us group therapy, which was not that much different from Alcoholics Anonymous. What was I suppose to say in group therapy? "Hi my name is .... I made the unfortunately choice of becoming a graduate student. I suffer from overwork and underpay. I am here today because I am trying to get better. When can I get my poker chip to show how many years I have been sober as a graduate student?"