<p>Arwen, I’m not totally sure what you mean – are you talking about MIT students cross-registering at Harvard for proteomics courses? I haven’t heard of that happening, since generally MIT people will not cross-register for technical courses.</p>
<p>I guess I might point out that an MIT or Harvard undergrad probably wouldn’t have too much difficulty getting a research position with any MIT or Harvard professor. An MIT undergrad could get a research job with a professor at the Broad, even if the professor’s primary academic affiliation was with Harvard rather than MIT. Actually, one of the labs I’ll be rotating in this spring (Harvard-affiliated, at Mass General Hospital) has an MIT undergrad working there.</p>
<p>EDIT: Ben, perhaps the Mohs scale of university hardness? Caltech can be diamond, MIT is corundum (rubies and sapphires!), and Harvard is, like, apatite.</p>