Great place to learn and do research, can be stressful - Anonymous employee MIT Employee Review

4.0
Apr 29, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

MIT has a lot of money and funding is easy. There are many world-class educators and lots of opportunities to learn

Cons

It seems like a lot of people hear only work. As in, work and research is their entire life. I'm not one of those people so it's difficult to keep up.

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