Interview Preparation

Confident and bright, yet relaxed presentation Start with structure and simplicity, let them ask for more details

Tell me about yourself.

Conversational

• My typical school day:

  • During school my favorite classes are orchestra + leadership

    • Orchestra: where I play principal 2nd violin

    • Leadership which I'm in because the executive president 

      • Homecoming

      • assemblies

  • After school I’m involved in a few clubs and sports

    • Chess club: planning a tournament this weekend with over 300 signups

What challenges have you faced?

• Tournament, first big thing I planned in leadership

  • Daunting and had to do lots of communication

  • Learned a lot about community

• More confident leader, hosted same tournament last year and will host one this weekend

• Transferred skills to ASB and held Homecoming for 1200 people

What weaknesses do you have? (40% weakness 60% solution)

•  Very involved, pretty busy

  • solution: trying to delegate tasks and saying no because I’m a people pleaser, which makes me even busier

What is your dream job?

• Doctor and help people

• Kadlec internship, 100 course semester

• Study biomedical engineering in college.

• Pacemaker and science fair

Why MIT?

1. The department of biological engineering has a research focus in Tissue Engineering that I want to look at, and a minor in Biomedical engineering that I want to earn

   1. as a whole the BE department is highly ranked and academically rigorous

2. traditions like MIT Mystery Hunt (I love puzzles) or the Hacks (want to witness the pranks)

What do you do for fun? 

Play tennis with friends, playing fun games like Sitting Duck or doubles.

What STEM experiences have you had?

In PNNL: mass spectrometers (proteomics) and AI (applied battery research).

In Robotics: FLL, and FTC

Do you have any questions for me?

1. What was your major in college?

2. What was your first job out of college?

3. Do you have any tips for my freshman year in college?