Mediocre experience - Graduate Research Assistant Penn State Employee Review

3.0
Apr 19, 2014
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Pros

The University provides a good amount of fellowship money to support graduate students. The area is safe with minimal distraction.

Cons

Your experience (work-life balance, graduation date) will largely depend on your faculty adviser. Unfortunately, the university is in the middle of nowhere, which makes networking difficult.

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5.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

They were very flexible with hours and it was a fun place to work. There was lots of downtime to do other things while on the clock, and an e-bike to get around campus quickly.

Cons

Toward the end they got pretty strict about keeping your computer on a certain tab to take online tickets, and you could get in trouble for not doing it. It’s tedious work overall.

4.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Great Benefits, Vacation, Sick Days, Personal Days

Cons

parking is normally far away from your building, and normally growth within your unit is difficult, so you have to tranfer to another to grow.

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