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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”18:57Report a misattribution
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