<p>Oh and my Interviewer’s a lawyer, who coincidentally works at the same office that my MIT interviewer heads. (I wonder if there’s a message there somewhere) :)</p>
<p>Yes, we do, rather. I’m hoping that the MIT adcoms are of that sort (hey, they sound like they are! A girl can dream, right?). </p>
<p>(And thank you. 
I’m fond of the tea bit myself – should I mention that ‘tea’ made an appearance in every single long essay I wrote? I’m obviously slightly addicted!)</p>
<p>My MIT interviewer was Mech E, and now heads a company. Which is really quite cool.</p>
<p>Mine had a 5.0 at MIT. (Bachelors and Masters) 
(Are we in for a match of my interviewer’s better than yours? :D)</p>
<p>Oh and he also did an MBA from Sloan…</p>
<p>Now that puts you at your ease when you walk into his office, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>If everyone wrote essays like that, I understand why I got rejected at Cornell…
My essays were pretty much straightforward and didn’t have any kind of play on words, puns or anything…</p>
<p>Oh no inshallah, they’re very few crazy people out there. In fact of all the essays I’ve read on CC and other places, only 3 really jump out at me (beside my own and K’s (We’re paragons of humility))</p>
<p>Cameliensis’
The one about how applying to college was like being Schrodinger’s Cat
Noldo’s </p>
<p>Normal essays are the majority.</p>
<p>Shrivats – hee. No, I won’t bother starting a match, although the fact that I’d heard of mine counts for something – I’m not very business-savvy. </p>
<p>inshallah – I’m sure people do get in with un-crazy essays!</p>
<p><em>goes to study</em></p>
<p>Oh you’d heard of yours… I’d googled mine. (I concede defeat) (terrible new age invention this google thing isn’t it? :D)</p>
<p>On other matters; have a read (and a watch); makes me want to be there even more :D</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/qanda/questions_and_answers/deprotonated.shtml[/url]”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/qanda/questions_and_answers/deprotonated.shtml</a></p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>That reminds me of a video I had seen of one of my brother’s professors singing to the class after they had done well in the midterms.</p>
<p>:D I’d already seen that – I have MIT admissions on RSS feed on Firefox – and loved it and sent it to all my friends. Damn MIT, really, making me love them more and more; decision day is going to be even harder and more heartbreaking.</p>
<p>Shrivats – Google is addictive, Wikipedia even more so. 
I Googled my Princeton interviewer, actually, which was how I came to the alarming conclusion that our interests were somewhat mismatched. (Still, I have hope that said interviewer is a nice person. We shall see tomorrow!)</p>
<p>you goggled your interviewer?</p>
<p>Well, ‘Googled’, viz. looked them up on the Internet. I like to know whom (or ‘what’, since that was the word I typed first, and it gives me the amusing mental picture of a large green slime monster asking me why I want to attend U. Alpha Centauri!) I’m going to be faced with.</p>
<p>dude, I know what googled means. Just wondering why, I mean what would you do if you don’t share anything in common? </p>
<p>BTW, I know you are a girl, don’t mind me calling you dude</p>
<p>:D Don’t really think that’ll be happening for some time yet… (I second everything you say about MIT, it’s almost cruel the glimpses that the blogs show us).
D’you edit on wiki?</p>
<p>Well it’s always good to have some idea of what an interviewer’s going to be like; helps you prepare; for instance you get an idea of what type of questions you can ask based upon how old the interviewer might be/which degree the interviewer completed at the university.</p>
<p>k_twin – ‘Cruel’ is exactly the word. <em>mopes</em> And I do edit on Wikipedia, occasionally – I hang around and correct the Tolkien articles. (What? No, I’m not obsessed. Really.)</p>
<p>naidu90 – I don’t mind ‘dude’. And well, I’ll probably find the answer to your question out fairly soon.</p>
<p>kay (10 char)</p>
<p>I, well I hang around on Wiki and read discussions on the placement of a comma. (Seriously though (am I the only misusing that word so?), I’ve seen discussions that go on for months on botany of all things, or on whether the internet article should have a capital I or a small i) </p>
<p>Best of Luck Noldo and Lakshya, do tell us how it went…</p>
<p>(Comments about MIT seconded, I’ve been madly in love with that school since the very start of the process)</p>
<p>Hawaiian, that’s another of those words! :D</p>
<p>fuzzy- are you sure that your interview is scheduled to be in India? I called the admissions office and they said that they dont offer interviews in india…</p>