>- Graduate students in year 3+ (median 5 years for PhD) are not taking courses and doing full time research and likely being a TA at the same time. (Tuition costs do not change)
Typically they will only take 1 credit after entering candidacy though, down from 9, so overall tuition drops significantly.
> It is better to buy shitty lab equipment because you don't have enough for good equipment and can't invest any excess
Sounds like you should have asked for a more appropriate amount of money in the grant.
> If you don't use the money in the allotted timeframe you're considered to have improperly managed the funding.
Grants can often be extended and funding can be supplemented.
> Students and professors "judge" works submitted to venues by other students and professors for no pay
Sure, but we are compensated by other academics reviewing our papers for no financial compensation.
> Venues take copyright ownership over works they deem valuable and put it behind a paywall
They take copyright over the submitted manuscript. I maintain copyright over preprints. Anyway, the point of writing the research is to distribute it, not to own copyright over it, so I don't see the problem. You can choose the venue, and not all venues take copyright over the submitted manuscript. If copyright is important, then choose one of those venues.
Typically they will only take 1 credit after entering candidacy though, down from 9, so overall tuition drops significantly.
> It is better to buy shitty lab equipment because you don't have enough for good equipment and can't invest any excess
Sounds like you should have asked for a more appropriate amount of money in the grant.
> If you don't use the money in the allotted timeframe you're considered to have improperly managed the funding.
Grants can often be extended and funding can be supplemented.
> Students and professors "judge" works submitted to venues by other students and professors for no pay
Sure, but we are compensated by other academics reviewing our papers for no financial compensation.
> Venues take copyright ownership over works they deem valuable and put it behind a paywall
They take copyright over the submitted manuscript. I maintain copyright over preprints. Anyway, the point of writing the research is to distribute it, not to own copyright over it, so I don't see the problem. You can choose the venue, and not all venues take copyright over the submitted manuscript. If copyright is important, then choose one of those venues.