Excellent place for graduate students - Graduate Research Assistant MIT Employee Review

5.0
Nov 30, 2016
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Pros

Stipend is competitive; tons of resources and opportunities for academic and personal development. Excellent research environment; everyone you meet is highly competent.

Cons

Narrow range of disciplines compared to many other universities; takes an effort to find people outside of the engineering/math/science fields. Cambridge is relatively expensive to live in.

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Cons

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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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