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As a Research Assistant at Missouri S&T, I was responsible for the mixing of self-consolidating concrete, the testing of its rheological properties, and the analysis of the test data.  I volunteered to work the night shift at the lab since three people all needed the same machine up to eight hours every day.  Typically, I would be at the lab from midnight to about 5:00 am.  During that time, I would mix several batches of similar SCC paste and test them using a rheometer.  I would then take the data back to my office and spend 3-5 hours analyzing it using a fully-automated Excel file I wrote.
At the lab I worked with a culturally diverse group of people.  Most of the grad students doing research in the lab were from Iran, but there were also some from Mexico, France, China, and Belgium.   Communication was sometimes difficult, but we always managed to work through the tangled mess of accents and coexist in the lab.
The hardest part of my job was dealing with all of the setbacks in the lab.  Whether it was running out of cement, spilling a bowl of paste, or getting locked out of the lab, there was always something to slow us down.  Despite these challenges, we managed to accomplish all of our goals for the summer.
My favorite part of this job was the data analysis.  I truly enjoyed writing the Excel file used to do the analysis.  I also enjoyed making improvements to the file as i gained a greater understanding of the tests and the meaning of their results.

Overall I give this job 3 stars. The management is awful, although the interim director we have is truly doing the best she can with the situation. Higher-ups (above our director) really don't care at all about the jobs we do, or how much revenue we're bringing in. They genuinely do not know what we're doing nor do they care to. Work/life balance is awful--even if you're only working part-time, they still want you in the office 5 to 6 days a week. Difficult to transfer to other departments on campus because of "job requirements" aka "not enough higher education even though it wasn't listed as a requirement." Low pay rate and the impossibility of raises (trust me--I've tried! It's simply not in the budget!) leaves a low moral and toxic culture overall. Bosses will boast about your high job security, but it's because no one else is trained or has any idea what you actually do. If you're out, you need to scramble to find someone to cover you and hope to God you've trained them well enough to do your job on top of theirs while you're out. Not sure how other jobs on campus are, but safe yourself some time and DO NOT WORK IN STUDENT AFFAIRS.

I don't know where to start with the problems this place has.  For starters they don't value experience paying me, a Software Engineer with 20 years experience, the same as someone who just finished their degree with no experience.  All staff (as opposed to faculty) are treated as unskilled labor and looked down upon.  If you don't have a PhD then you're treated as a complete idiot.  The university actually pays less than their own pay grade ranges as a regular practice in addition to the benefits being the worst I've ever see in my career.  Also the only raises given in over 2 years was a blanket 1.5% raise given to all staff.   Heck, job performance isn't even on my review.  It was replaced by "diversity and inclusiveness".  Job security IS a plus since nobody ever gets fired unless they get caught stealing or some criminal offense but there is zero chance for advancement in the organization.

A typical day in this office is dealing with constant emergencies caused by failures in procedures, lack of support from management, and the eventual dread of burnout.  Management only sees the dollar signs at the end of each proposal submitted versus the effects of overworking it has on their staff. There is a claim that work-life balance is priority by management, but that is not the case. We get plenty of time off during the year, but what good is it if work piles up with nobody to handle it? The hardest part of this job is dedicating your life to it, and for the low pay, it’s not realistic for many. The most enjoyable part of this job are the required holidays, which we often have to work to meet the unrealistic and unsustainable workload expected of us. Lastly, benefits are routinely taken from staff members, causing an already low morale to sink further.

When I was there, the university was under a constant hiring freeze and their budget seemed to be constantly an issue. They have about 12 technicians trying to cover a campus with hundreds of computers. I was a printer technician on the campus for a while, and I was the only printer technician for that entire time. This is on a campus with a couple of hundred printers, and since I was a student, I was only allowed to work 20 hours a week. When I couldn't keep up with a forty our work weeks worth of work in twenty hours, I was let go because their budget was too tight to allow for the hiring of another technician at my pay rate, and the manager could hire two students to work on printers if she paid each of them less than she was paying me.

i worked at Missouri S&T as a graduate research assistant and i also worked as an instructor (teaching assistant) for Mineral Processing lab sessions. I spend most of the time at the mineral processing lab conducting experiments. After conducting the experiments i collect the data and use software like MatLab to simulate and model the experimental data.

The hardest part of my job is when i have to spend the whole day at the lab preparing some samples and conducting experiment. i have learned a lot from the people i work with especially my professor. she is like a mother to me. also the other graduate students within department have been very helpful. the most enjoyable part of my work is that i learn new things everyday, through reading and conducting experiments.

They have a lot of opportunities to advance and apply yourself. They understand that not everyone is going to know everything and are more than willing to train you to get you to a productive state. The professional environment mimics the career path many go on to take, along with a very exciting field of work. You get out of it what you put into it, it can be challenging but the reward is amazing. Excellent staff and managers to help you along while also letting you learn. This research team is all about developing students to professionals through applied problem solving and team work.

This job was normally 15 to 20 hours per week working directly for the head of the geological sciences and engineering director.  Duties included runing errands, preparing forms for the departments, Alumni newletter, Jackling program for high school kids, spreadsheets for certain instructors.

Co-workers were also students so it was easy to work together to get jobs completed in a timely fashion and correctly.  By us working in the Geoloical sciences department, we were able to learn about the day to day runnings of these programs, and were able to help different professors with random tasks they would need done.

While employed with MS&T, I had a bit of an advantage that, when my family needed me, I was able to work a bit more flexibly that some employers, but I was in a department that was not proactively managed to help employees to advance, work more efficiently, or have someone to go to in case of a hostile environment. There was not sufficient training for my position offered, and while my immediate supervisor was personable, she was not really suited for management. The upper management often swept problems under the rug, there was a separation of classes which seemed to put employees in their place, rather tan encourage growth.

My workday starts from checking emails. And then do my own research about sentiment analysis. Sometimes I need to take classes about different programming languages. Every day I have a to-do list. It can organize your whole day tightly. In our department, everyone has their own responsibility and staff and professors there are very nice and glad to help you for any difficulties you come across. My hardest part of the job may be my research. It need me to have a open mind to organize data and analyze it. The most enjoyable part of the job is that I can work with these nice people.

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