Being a graduate student is a soul-sucking experience, and the MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences dept is especially rough. - Avis employé Graduate Student Researcher MIT

Solid research and great overall experience

can't think of any cons.

High quality core facilities and well resourced labs. Countless brilliant colleagues who can serve as mentors and collaborators

Students and Postdocs are expensive due to high overhead, so unreasonably high productivity is often expected compared to other institutions. PIs are typically stretched very thin. Most departments/labs are very space limited which makes it harder to do safe and productive research.