Great place with a couple cons... - Graduate Research Assistant MIT Employee Review

4.0
Sep 7, 2016
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Pros

Very stimulating environment, lots of different things you can do in order to learn diverse skills, challenging peers and amazing exposure to outside opportunities.

Cons

Requires self discipline because graduate school advisers may or may not care much.

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Pros

Great research opportunities in EECS

Cons

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4.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

High quality core facilities and well resourced labs. Countless brilliant colleagues who can serve as mentors and collaborators

Cons

Students and Postdocs are expensive due to high overhead, so unreasonably high productivity is often expected compared to other institutions. PIs are typically stretched very thin. Most departments/labs are very space limited which makes it harder to do safe and productive research.

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