Ask HN: Would you want to work at the MIT Media Lab?

5 pointsrazorsharp2 comments

Media Lab is one crazy place to do research at. I deferred my application last year to MIT media lab and went on to do neural net research at IBM Almaden Research center.

There's no clear data about what are minimum requirements? How many students do they take etc.? The info is absolutely very less.

Can we form a small group of people who're applying.a private googlegroup would be great. Anyone?

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As one of the ML alums on HN, happy to share a few pointers.

The lab is a total of about 250 grad students and faculty, including MS and PhD. I imagine about 60% of grad students are MS. Even if you have an MS before, you'll have to start with the Media Lab MS degree.

You really apply to a specific adviser, so its important to know your research area, and define your past work in that context.

I am sure. However, the faculty seems to busy to reply. I know that they receive a 100 emails per day.

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