<p>Well, through what seems to be a combination of great networking, my efforts, and sheer luck of the draw, the MyMIT site gave me information for a possible MIT interviewer. I just so happens he is the director of the department at a major research complex I will be interning and conducting R&D at: Basically, the PERFECT interviewer!</p>
<p>Is this allowed, or against interviewing policies (similar to how people related to those in, say, a lottery company are void from playing the lottery) at MIT? I think it wouldn’t offer any advantage uncountered by a disadvantage; The interview would hurt me if I ‘screwed up’ horrible at my internship, but it would be advantageous if I performed well, and thus it would seem within ethics.</p>
<p>I’d like for my replies to link to official MIT sources please…</p>
<p>Your first sentence confuses me. Did you make an effort to get this person as an interviewer?</p>
<p>Mmmm let me clarify this:</p>
<p>I worked pretty hard in school and I believe these efforts paid off in that I was able to participate in a summer program and later get an internship with said major research complex. I didn’t know about an MIT interviewer being there.</p>
<p>And, when I checked the MyMIT thing, I noticed a box with the interviewer, and saw the email address, which had the research complex’s domain in it. I was like “Oooh, interesting, he works at the place I’m going to be interning at”, and then I googled his name and email address, and he happens to be the director of the same department at the research complex. the department I’m going to be at is one which fits my research project and such, and I already had it in mind before I knew about the interviewer.</p>
<p>Basically, it is through coincidence that I’m going to be working with my interviewer, and I did not make any effort to have this interviewer.</p>
<p>I don’t think you have anything to worry about; doing research in a department as a high school student does not usually involve any contact with the department head.</p>
<p>If your interviewer perceives this as a conflict of interest, I would assume he would contact the EC office and have you reassigned.</p>
<p>He wouldn’t even necessarily need to contact the EC office. Students get reassigned all the time, usually at the regional level. Certainly I tend to withdraw if there is even the vaguest possibility that someone might possibly perceive any unspecified conflict of interest.</p>