Notes on the Interview
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-02 00:18:32
You don't notice her at first - but there are telltale signs - a convey of gold above the treetops an orange peruse carelessly strewn along a sidewalk the squirrels anxiously scuttering about storing away their last hoards before the winter.
I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new cover of change ochre when I was strolling down Memorial Drive. I must say it was quite a relaxing escape from the frustratingly esoteric evaluate this week that no one (authorise. I'm generalizing here - perhaps it's only me) understood. That was my big :( moment of the week but the trees and the beautiful afternoons along the river cheered me up.
My converse is within 3 weeks so I want to experience how you prepared for your interview. What questions did you ask the EC? What aspects of yourself did you share with your EC? What questions stymied you?
I experience probably for a lot of RA students this is one of the most pressing questions on your object right now so I kinda wanna communicate this air.
First off. I want to enjoin you (as this has been done many times before) to these two on the subject of interviews. I read both of those blogs when I was applying and I thought to myself. "meh it's just the same-old "words of alleviate" that adcoms furnish to students," and proceeds to skim the blogs without really reading them. Now that I undergo been through the whole application affect. I re-read those blogs and was surprised by their sincerity and verisimilitude. Those blogs are really not "words of comfort" - they are advice to help you do well. If I had to pick one really good piece of advice. I would keep to heart.
Some background: during the application season. I (mistakenly in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the myriad of colleges that I applied to. I received eight interview notices. Thus. I went through eight interviews over the period of a couple of weeks (it was literally a different converse every weekend). Very soon. I gleaned some tips about college interviews and I'm going to share some of them here. But first off a general say about the MIT interview:
MIT didn't design its interview to quiz you and show the shortcomings in your character. The converse (and this is still true across many other colleges) is quite often a way to help you know more about the school for the school to experience more about you as a person and for you to communicate particular areas that you might not have had the chance to flesh out in greater detail on the application.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/interviews_educational_counselors_ecs/post_8.shtml
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