<p>^Sounds just like mine. Are you an international applicant too?</p>
<p>yup im an indian(though living in this country called bahrain-not surprised if u haven’t heard of it)</p>
<p>just out of curiosity, is it possible to have a second interview? I had mine in early november, and I have thought of so many things that I should have said to give them a better idea about me. If yes, what is the process?</p>
<p>i guess u could ask ur interviewver one more time (was he nice guy who would give u another?)…but i think the mr. mikalye posted soewhere that interview report is 6th Jan
=O</p>
<p>Mm I’ve heard of Bahrain of course… I watch F1 =P Isn’t it more Middle-East than India?</p>
<p>And I remember a page on the admissions blog mentioning that many people request for a 2nd interview under similar circumstances but they can’t really offer that. =s</p>
<p>I had my interview on the 5th of January. It went quite well, and not typically face-to-face. My EC lives 500km from me, so he arranged a video conference with me. That was pretty cool. =D</p>
<p>It lasted around 50 minutes and he asked general questions at the start (Why MIT? Why engineering? How many siblings? etc), and then details about the stuff on my CV. </p>
<p>At the end he was like you’re one of the better candidates, and if you can give a good SAT in January, you have a real shot at MIT. (didn’t expect to hear that) and then he went on to say that don’t keep your hopes high though, even the best candidates get rejected, considering the fact that the international applicants quota is really small.</p>
<p>@pfaocltd- hahaha, support ferrari?<br>
yea its sandwiched b/w UAE(dubai) and Saudi Arabia…its smaller than most cities of most countries(like smaller than NYC even). where u from?</p>
<p>Ahahaha yup, I support Ferrari. How did you tell?</p>
<p>I’m from Singapore, which is even smaller than Bahrain… :x</p>
<p>Camon Like Who doesnt :P</p>
<p>absolutely-seeing the publicity ferrari get its hard for consumers to get hooked to any other team in most cases-but they deserve
so r u a citizen of singapore 2 or r u living there</p>
<p>btw Dark Angel and pfaocltd- i still dunno ur names=0?</p>
<p>Ahhhh… yeah! Ferrari victories are just so… passionate(?)… like an IMO solution at the end of a page of fearless algebra. Brawn… Mercedes… meh… more like Lagrange-multipliers-plug-and-chuck. Alonso has been my favorite driver (followed by Vettel and Schumi), so now that he’s in my favorite team, I can’t wait for this season. ^^</p>
<p>My real name’s pretty hard to remember and pronounce. Not that ‘pfaocltd’ is easy either but it’s more straightforward if you take the last 4 letters of the words ‘paracompact manifold’. Anyway, you can call me “Yurie” like the rest of my friends though.</p>
<p>it was awesome. It was the first interview I’d ever done (and I’ve had one other one since it and… that one was not good). My interviewer was young and friendly and I think he could’ve gotten along with anybody–he was just that kind of person. Total interview was a little over 2 hours. He set aside the first 30 minutes for warming up–I told him random facts about me, and the last 30 minutes for questions. After the actual interview started and he asked me stuff that were on the application for MIT… I treated this the same as the warm up since I already got really into the conversation. I talked a lot, I talked a lot about myself 
I got off topic a lot. He would ask me a question and I’d answer it but then get sidetracked. I was super informal and so was he. I feel like I managed to tell him my life story and really give a sense of who I am. LOL He asked me a couple questions I didn’t know how to answer and I was like “uhh, I don’t know! What do you mean?” at first but he’d lead into it and I’d think of something.
I was super honest. And super enthusiastic (somehow… I was surprised at my enthusiasm tbh.) It was honestly like meeting a new friend and telling him/her about yourself. He said my problem was that I had too many interests and wanted to do too much and I would need to focus on one thing in college… so I was worried about whether he thought i was good for MIT but then he said he thought I’d be perfect for the Harvard/ MIT medical program [The</a> M.D.-Ph.D. Program at Harvard Medical School](<a href=“http://www.hms.harvard.edu/md_phd/]The”>Harvard/MIT MDPhD Program) but that’s for grad right? hm.</p>
<p>whew that was long but srsly best interview ever and I wish I had a videocamera so I could just reuse that interview for all the other interviews 
PS: my friends had different people and one of them was conservative and didn’t look up while writing notes and the other interviewer was like mine.
PPS: oh yes, he took pages and pages of notes. we talked about our note-taking strategies lol. sometimes he folded the paper so i couldn’t see what he was writing (but I didn’t even try to see them).</p>
<p>^HST is a graduate program, but undergrads at MIT can and do take HST classes.</p>
<p>Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I figured since the thread is about interviews…</p>
<p>So I had my interview back in mid-November, and all went well; it was a nice conversation, the interviewer was very nice, etc…
problem is, my interview form hasn’t reached the office. I initially thought he was just procrastinating, but as the processing deadline approaches, I’m getting increasingly worried.
I haven’t filled out the thing on myMIT (the one that you’re supposed to fill out if the office hasn’t gotten the interview form, even though you’ve conducted an interview), but I figure I should.
Should I contact my interviewer for more information, or will filling out that form be enough?</p>
<p>Thanks beforehand</p>
<p>If you fill out the form, the admissions office will contact your EC.</p>
<p>Absolutely, and they will contact the regional Chair and all of the dreadful “C’s” (interview conducted but report not filed) will be carefully chased down.</p>