Amazing, intense place - simultaneously incredibly stimulating, and also insanely stressful. - Graduate Student MIT Employee Review

4.0
Mar 13, 2013
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Pros

brilliant colleagues stimulating interactions with other MIT people great resources and facilities

Cons

Very competitive - everyone is brilliant, difficult to get good grades Very high expectations the unofficial motto is an acronym "I hate this f$#king place"

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