Delayed Introduction

Well, enough about that. Now back to the real stuff. For now, I plan to keep this blog about things that are relevant to me (keeping personal rants to the minimum necessary) but could also be useful for people in similar situations. Interviews, as I have them, will pop up here, as will any NLP work that I do in the future as I move toward my M.Eng. Other topics you might see here are:

Linguistics (especially any new observations)
Hiking
Biking / Cycling
Diet / Fitness
Music (especially new or obscure artists or albums)
Books / Music / TV (again, only obscure things; don't have time for much else)
Linux / Web Development (assuming I ever get going on that website of mine)
General interesting news that I might follow (hint: you won't see politics here)
Baby steps to investing and finance
Boston
MIT
And more?

In any case, over the last few weeks/months I've had a lot of interviews, mostly to prepare for the important interviews, but also because I wanted to keep my options open this year. Last year, I only applied to a handful of companies, so every rejection hurt a lot; in addition, I was a sophomore, so there were a number of opportunities that I didn't even get simply because I had no work experience (and presumably not enough class experience). This year, as a junior, the companies seem to want me a lot more. It's really satisfying.

What I want to do here is document them; my experiences should be useful both to me next year and to anyone else who ends up reading these posts. The companies I have interviewed with so far,this year:

Apple (1st round)
Basis Technology (only round)
Bridgewater Associates (1st round)
Click Harmonics (1st & 2nd round)
Google (1st 1st round)
Google (2nd 1st round)
Highbridge Associates (1st round)
Microsoft (1st round)
Microsoft (2nd round)
Morgan Stanley (1st round)
Novantas (1st round)
Vistaprint (1st round)

Posts on these interviews coming soon (though sporadically).