<p>Can anyone help me with the whole interview thing? what i need to know/bring?</p>
<p>how was your interview? haven't had one yet- was it one w/ an alumni? is an interview part of the application process?</p>
<p>what sorts of questions did he/she ask?</p>
<p>hope you did amazingly well =D interviews take place only to benefit you.. so don't worry!</p>
<p>bump... (10 char)</p>
<p>the mit interview is definitely important</p>
<p>unfortunately, interviewer did not make a good impression on me... i decided not to apply</p>
<p>be prepared with your resume</p>
<p>What kind of questions are asked?
The wacky sort of out-there-in-a-wonderful-nerdy feeling that I get from MIT, their campus, and their advertisements is really appealing. \However, I'm worried that they'll ask a question that's "non-textbook" (for the lack of a better phrase), and I'll be caught completely off guard?</p>
<p>Yeh. my interviewer asked me some weird questions. The interview definitely killed me.</p>
<p>you can ask him some weird questions instead as a pay back :P</p>
<p>asiaknight, could you give some examples?</p>
<p>I think it depends on your interviewer...mine only asked one question "tell me about your family" and then every smaller question built off of that where I either was talking about myself/etc or he was talking about MIT. So not all of them ask "off-the-wall" questions</p>
<p>My interviewer kicked ASS!!!</p>
<p>We talked about boxing and martial arts for a few hours (he boxed, I do tai chi, kung fu, and tae kwon do). Then I found out he stole oranges from my orchard while biking there. We laughed and talked about physics. Why he liked MIT, why I might like going there, etc. Relax and hope for a nice interviewer.</p>
<p>I loved my interviewer.</p>
<p>Basically she asked me these "set questions":</p>
<p>1) What do you enjoy doing at school (like EC activity)?
2) What do you enjoy doing personally (outside of your EC list)?
3) Comment on your experience with groupwork - either for a project, for an EC, whatever.
4) What have you done that didn't turn out the way you expected it to be?
5) What are you most proud of?
6) Why do you want to go to MIT?
7) What other colleges are you applying to? (I think really, just be honest...I could tell that my interviewer would not use this information against me; rather, she was helping me define why MIT would be my best choice)</p>
<p>Those questions and the sub-questions that stemmed off from them formed the entire interview. The interview lasted for two hours at a coffeeshop on the morning of my birthday (lol). She took 3 pages of notes and was really happy - I thought I communicated myself well.</p>
<p>I guess there probably won't be anyone doing interviews this late, but I would say just be honest and don't think that the interviewer is out to "get you." Just treat it like a normal conversation with a teacher or a close friend. I went into the interview dreading the whole thing and came out thanking MIT in my heart of having the EC system. It really adds a whole new dimension to your EC list and your essays on your application. In short, use the interview to convey the parts that your application cannot cover adequately!!</p>
<p>I had very similar questions.</p>
<p>I also had this question - If you had unlimited resources, what would you do for a year?</p>
<p>I think that I answered that question poorly and my group work question poorly.</p>
<p>Oh well; you live and you learn.</p>