Good fun, bright people, lots of sports - Visiting Researcher MIT Employee Review

5.0
Nov 13, 2014
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Pros

Professors, level of research, people, freedom in time management, opportunities, business oriented minds, possibility of taking courses at Harvard and Sloan, many societies and clubs, great contacts, good fun overall

Cons

Groups focused on modelling don't really have great equipment in the laboratories, microscopy is not as good as at Oxford, both XRD and SEM is usually overbooked

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