<p>That makes sense. So does a major portion of your tuition come from the lab research? </p>
<p>Also, what do you mean by us being “constrained by the type of research problems your lab is investigating in the first place”? What if, for example, I’m interested in testing a theory of mine on learning. MIT surely has the facilities to allow me to do so, but do they incentivise me to investigate my idea? After months of research for example, suppose I need to use an fMRI machine to test some of my hypotheses? Would some sort of grant or aid allow me to do so, funded? Aside from federal funding, is there any university-provided funding?</p>