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Dissertation? This grad student has his own personal office? With a door? I wasn't even issued a chair. I had to get my own.
As for dogs: when I was in grad school, one of the professors had a dog that sat quietly next to his desk all day, at least as far as the professor knew. When he went to the bathroom, his dog would run into the hall and play with people, but the dog was listening for his footsteps and was always back in his office in time. This didn't last long because the department head didn't like dogs and complained :(
I'm doing my PhD in Germany, everyone here is employed with salary and has a 1-3 people office. At least in computer science.
I did a science PhD so I also got paid, enough to live modestly but comfortably. I shared an office with four other people but it was a big office. The incident with the chair probably had more to do with the struggle between the professors and the university to avoid paying for things like that than it did with an absolute lack of funds.
All of the grad students in my department - ten or twelve? - along with the few undergrads we had assisting our program - had to share a single medium-sized room, with no assigned seating. At least they had shared computers at every other seat. Sadly, I don't recall the chair situation.
One professor in my department was so protective of her lab's space that when she noticed me sitting at a desk assigned to one of her students, she went and complained directly to my advisor. The desk's owner was a friend of mine and on a month-long international trip at that time and I wasn't even making a habit of using his desk - it was just a convenient place to sit while talking to another one of her students.
How did you guys share computers? My work was 100% on the computer so we would have had to work in shifts if there had not been enough computers for everyone (but there were).
I had a very fancy portable hard drive using the brand-new USB protocol that could power itself from the PS/2 port.