Great experience but can be very PI dependent - Graduate Research Assistant MIT Employee Review

5.0
Oct 8, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of flexibility in the work you can do. Hands-off advisor

Cons

You need to be very self directed for it to work

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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