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Here are a few things that I think are important and helpful:Ask for names and roles of everyone you are meeting; and if possible get the interview loop/schedule so you know how much time you will be spending with each and in what order.Research each person with whom you are meeting - e.g., look them up on Quora, LinkedIn, Facebook and don’t forget YouTube. Seeing a person speak on video is great preparation for what to expect with respect to their personality and style. Plus, diving into their published content will give you more to talk with them about, help inform your questions, and potentially help highlight your preparation to the interviewer.Research the company generally. Know the basic stats on size and state of the company, and try to develop a view on the top 3 strengths and the top 3 weaknesses/issues the company faces. If you can think through and be prepared to articulate how you can reinforce the strengths and help make progress against the issues, then even better.Research the company specifically on Glassdoor.com. I find that there are typically elements of truth to the themes that surface there, and it is a good way to get a feel for what to expect culturally and again this preparation can help to inform your questions. That said, I have rarely read a Glassdoor summary without seeing one review that was probably written by a disgruntled former employee. Two points make a line, I usually discount the random one off “rant” that too often is allowed to surface there.Talk to trusted people in your network who work at the company if you can. Try (subtly) to get as much inside scoop as you can on the company and the people you are going to meet.Obviously be prepared to articulate your background, why you have made the choices you have made over time, why you want the job, why you would be good for the job and why you would fit it in with the culture.Relax and be ready for and open to the unexpected. If you worry, you will distract your mind from the conversation. Think of the interview as a game or a puzzle, or even just a chance to meet someone who is interesting and learn something new. The less nervous you are, the better you will do. Be disciplined about this. It is just a conversation, the worst thing that can happen is that they don’t ask you back. Don’t take it personally, it happens to everyone.(Hopefully this is instinctive but of course) Be nice to the people who schedule your time at the company. I have definitely passed on a candidate more than once who interviewed well but treated my friend/ colleague badly.This is not really prep but seriously - send thank you notes/emails to all whom you talked to. We don’t typically give out interviewer email addresses at Quora BUT you can always send a thank you message via LinkedIn. I don’t pass on candidates just because of this, but I definitely notice.

Increase efficiency: Absolutely, positively EXERCISE. Find 30 minutes , preferably AFTER you've been in class all day, and just make it a goal to breath so heavy that you can't talk straight. Plenty of people neglect this step, and it will make your study time and concentration at least 30-40% more efficient.Multiple choice test tip: Always cover up the answers, and try to respond without looking at them. Then, all that you have to do is uncover them and there it is. This helps your mental stamina during the test, helps you to avoid getting confused, gets you prepped to look at the answers if you can't produce the right answer and will increase your test scores 10-15% I guarantee.Read books about STUDIES of how to study: Check out the book "Make it Stick" by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel. The BIGGEST takeaway from the book:When you study, practice RECALL.The trap that most people fall into: Re reading highlighted text, makes them FEEL that they understand it when they don't. If you practice RECALL, which is basically seeing if you can explain a concept or definition with your eyeballs closed, then you will know whether you know something or not.Practice the art of concentration: If you don't already, sit in a quiet room at least 10 minutes per day focusing on your breath. Let your thoughts be like a river, don't acknowledge them, just let them flow as you focus on your breath. Breath this way when you have a test in front of you, consciously, and you're higher thinking centers will remain active.Flashcard strategy: Your best strategy with flashcards is to group them in 5's or 10's , and don't work on the stacks for more than 5 minutes at a time. Spread them out. What most people do, is work on them until they're in the short term memory, and those people feel that they know the flashcards. It is much more effective to look at them 50 times over 10 hours than 50 times over 2 hours.

You can basically use butter in four ways when making cookies. The results are quite different and the choice of which one to use is entirely yours – it depends on how you prefer your cookies to be. I like mine to have a dry, crumbly crust and a chewy gooey interior.Butter inhibits the formation of gluten, which will help keep cookies tender. As you increase the amount of butter in a recipe, you alto increase the tenderness of the cookie, and it will also spread more as it bakes, and make it more cakey and less crunchy.Cold butter chopped into cubes and combined with flour is called the sablée method. Sable means sand in French and the name is due to the texture of combined cold butter + flour. That will give you a flaky, crumbly cookie that is dry and thin. The flour covers the butterfat globules, only allowing them to melt and combine with the other ingredients when baked.Creamed butter will give you tall, soft, airy cookies that will get a firm crust on the outside while still retaining some moisture on the inside. They're lighter and almost disappear in your mouth after a few seconds.Warm butter, en pomade, will give you soft, tall cookies that spread more than with both previous methods. The cookies will be denser and thinner.Melted butter will give you thin and dense cookies that spread a lot during baking and are drier, flakier and a lot crunchier than the three previous methods.-What I tend to do is use the creamed butter and bake them immediately. The dough will be a lot creamier and you won't be able to make them into balls to freeze, so I use an ice-cream scoop to set them directly onto the baking sheet.If you're using the other methods, let the dough rest for at least 30 minutes (overnight is best, to allow the gluten to relax, the sugar to dissolve and the butter to crystallize properly), roll them into balls and bake – or keep frozen to up to 90 days and just pop them in the oven when you feel like fresh, warm cookies.Giving the dough time to rest in the fridge will also make them spread a lot less in the oven, if a chewier center is your thing.-This article is an extensive and fun experiment on how ingredients alter the structure, mouthfeel and texture of cookies:The Food Lab: The Science of the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies