My son almost got his first internship through a job fair at CMU. It was for a firm (forget the name) that does defense/security work on fighter jets if I remember correctly. It was 2008 and the internship got cancelled in April when the economy collapsed. So he was scrambling for something else and a friend at NVidea told him they were still hiring summer interns. The next summer he applied to Google, he was given their name by a CMU grad working there, but he still had to go through the multiple interview process described in #124. (Google may also have had him on his radar because he’d done well enough in a contest they ran the summer after his freshman year to make it to next to final round. They actually flew him to NYC from Pittsburgh for the contest.)
I’m interested that Marist College is up so high for the NY office of IBM. I think of it as a college for B+ students around here.