Adding on to what @MomofMTBoy said about an intense program being filled with caring professors. When it coms to kind and intense, you do not have to choose one or the other. There are plenty of teachers out there who are intense with kindness. If a student hits a road block and says “I can’t do this,” there is a big difference between telling that student “don’t lie to yourself, give me more, you are almost there, and you CAN do this” vs. yelling at a student “why can’t you just do it! Everyone else can, DO IT NOW!” Both are intense, but one is constructive (kind) and one is abusive.
~VT