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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 :(
When I started my phd (in a different country, during late covid times) my only collegue who would have sat in my room always worked from home. It wasn't very fun at all. Well, very few people came to the office anyways, so I just had to try and figure out everything by myself, eat lunch alone, etc. etc.
I am so much happier now in a 4 person room where I have 1-3 collegues to talk to depending on the day.
Having a private office would be a nice symbol of status but I don't think I'd actually enjoy working in one - in grad school, I was really happy in my shared office since the other guys there were my friends. I graduated a year after them and that last year was not fun. Of course new people took their spots but those people were strangers to me.