Interviewing CIT Students for Newspaper

Colleges and Universities A-Z California Institute of Technology
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<p>Hello, I will be interviewing students for my school's journalism class. The questions are all the same and will be limited to 6 per person. The questions are as follows:
1. How often did you study?
2. How many hours a night would you spend on homework?
3. What kind of things did you do outside of school?
4. What resources did you use in order to do well?
5. How did you become a good student?
6. What advice would you give to students aspiring into get into your college?</p>

<p>You can either post replies here, or message them to me. Please include your first name, and the college which you currently attend. If you do not want your name used, I will simply make one up in its place.</p>

<p>Thank you very much to all who help!</p>

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<p>Comparing Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley, MIT, and Caltech huh? Eh, whatever, I’ll bite.</p>

<ol>
<li>Never. I did my homework and that was it. Studying was a waste of time in high school (hell, I still barely do it).</li>
<li>1 or less</li>
<li>Played video games, worked on cars, and hung out with friends</li>
<li>I used an SAT prep book… haha that’s about it</li>
<li>I just did the work and did it well enough to get As (I was the king of the 89.9%)</li>
<li>If you really like math and science, and you’re good enough to hack it here, you’ll get in. If either of those are not true, you don’t want to be here.</li>
</ol>

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<ol>
<li>well i tried to study every hour of every day, but usually i would end up staring at the work or putting it off</li>
<li>a couple hours a night</li>
<li>nethack</li>
<li>idk</li>
<li>i watched a friend fail out of school despite his best efforts because he did a lot of things without understanding why they worked. and then i decided not to be like him.</li>
<li>don’t worry about grades or looking smart…what’s important is that you understand the material. it probably means you ought to do a lot more work than is actually assigned.</li>
</ol>

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<p>

I should probably preface this by saying that I didn’t go to a typical high school. It was a math/science lab school and much more work than the public high school I went to for my freshman year.

  1. I studied for tests/finals.
  2. Depended on the night. Usually between 1 and 5.
  3. a cappella choir, yearbook, soccer, peer tutoring
  4. I took advantage of research opportunites.
  5. I’m not sure I’d consider myself a good student. I try to stay on top of my work, but sometimes I lack motivation at crucial moments.
  6. Be yourself. Its crucial that Caltech accepts you for who you are, and not who you think they want. There are plenty of colleges out there; its not worth trying to get into one where you won’t be happy. Caltech Adcomm knows what they’re doing, just be yourself and see what happens.</p>