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The speaker says a PhD student's greatest advantage over people at other labs is freedom from bureaucracy and related burdens.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“as a PhD student like that's the biggest advantage you have over any single person at another lab because you don't have to deal with bureaucracy and all these other things yeah”Play from 18:57Report a misattribution
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