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Good changes coming for funded graduate students - Research Assistant Worcester Polytech Employee Review

4.0
1 Sept 2023
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Pros

The year I was graduating, the funded students unionized and are ratifying a better constitution for worker rights, pay, etc. Lots of good changes coming and making the experience more consistent across labs instead of making the experience reliant on if you're working with a nice professor or an awful one.

Cons

A lot is still reliant on individual professors to manage instead of a uniform system across all labs and departments. Makes it feel like a very inequal and biased experience.

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5.0
22 May 2026
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Pros

Flexible, great professors, strong union

Cons

Project oriented, benefits ok for graduate worker but not great

4.0
24 Jun 2026
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Pros

Can be pretty easy if most of your work is office hours. I had about seven hours a week and most of the time there weren't many students.

Cons

Grading was a lot harder than I expected. Pretty demoralizing honestly; a lot of clearly ChatGPT submissions (ECE programming class mostly with freshmen who'd never seen code before, so not surprising). Grading paper exams was fine.

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