Stressful but MIT - Research Assistant MIT Employee Review

4.0
10 June 2020
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Pros

It's an excellent place to work for researchers and you're surrounded with smart and relatively nice people.

Cons

Too stressful, I don't think they realize how much burden there is on students & researchers from low-income backgrounds and people of color; while others from privileged backgrounds know how to network and negotiate for stuff, underprivileged ones fall through the tracks.

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Cons

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