I was shocked and appalled at the blanket comment that the problems of graduate students are the result of "years of behavior and an inability to cope with adversity and failure." This, I believe, demonstrates the attitude of many faculty members: if there is a problem it must lie with the student. Most graduate students I have had contact with (at three different institutional settings including major research and state schools do not demonstrate the aforementioned "inability to cope with adversity and failure". Instead they are, for the most part, hard-working trainees. I hope that this notion that the frustration in graduate school reflects some unspecified "behavior" on the part of the student is not one that is widely held. This is problem not the solution.
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