<p>My MIT interviewer:</p>
<p>"While you're there, you'll hate it."</p>
<p>:O</p>
<p>I don’t have any yet, but I’m auditioning for a play next week, and I’m sure I’ll have some sort of funny/painful story to tell.</p>
<p>My D got a phone call from an Alumni asking if she could interview her. I’ve never heard of a school calling you for an interview! That’s a first. They decided to meet at Starbucks and after the interview started an older gentleman sat at their table and he said if you don’t mind I’d like to sit with the ladies. My D was like okay and kept talking and he listened to every word! How bizarre. Then the interviewer opened up her Art portfolio and the gentleman leaned over to look at the pictures. He said Wow, you drew that? The interviewer said no, she did (my D). He looked at her and was stunned. He kept saying Wow! How funny is that? Then after the interview, they both walked out of Starbucks like best friends/sisters. They really hit it off.</p>
<p>I have an MIT interview coming up soon.
After reading through some of these posts, I’m scared to find out what type of a story I’ll be donating to this thread.</p>
<p>An interview from last week:</p>
<p>Interviewer: What is your pet peeve?
Me: Ummm … people.</p>
<p>@rubyred: You’ve not heard of alum volunteers calling up students to arrange interviews? That’s what happend to me +25 years ago. That’s what I’ve been doing for the +20 years that I’ve been interviewing. I called 4 yesterday as a matter of fact.</p>
<p>We were talking about how I take all my classes at a local university. </p>
<p>Them: Do you drive there?
Me: I take the bus because I’m an awful driver. I once got pulled over for drunk driving when I wasn’t drunk.
Them: :rolleyes:</p>
<p>My Georgetown interviewer used the term “clutch” and I had to stifle laughter. Other than that it went very well.</p>
<p>“what’s your favorite thing about oberlin?”
“…idk”</p>
<p>well frick there goes my chances</p>
<p>So it totally slipped my mind to mention some things, such as how I played cello for a long time. </p>
<p>Interviewer: “Is there anything you want to add?”
Me: “Um. OMG I totally forgot! I’ve been playing cello since the age of six”
Interviewer: 
… (probably thought “How the hell do you forget that?”)
“Okay. So you’re interested in like orchestra?”</p>
<p>Interviewer: “Go ahead and sit down in that chair over there. I gotta use the bathroom. Be back in 5-10 minutes <em>laughs to himself</em>”</p>
<p>LOL heather</p>
<p>@decimation: LOL LOL lol that made me laugh irl</p>
<p>Interviewer: You’ll be the only girl if you’re an engineer. </p>
<p>Me: Why did you pick this school?
Interviewer: I didn’t want to at all, but they gave me money</p>
<p>My Northwestern interview got awkward when the lady didn’t ask me if I had any questions. For the first time ever in an interview I had real legitimate questions and I didn’t get to ask them. It pretty much went like this:</p>
<p>Me: Oh I have a ques…
Interviewer: Well thank you for your time and have a great day.
Me: Umm thank you. -_-</p>
<p>I told uchicago i hated econ!!! Omg why did i say that???</p>
<p>Yeah I’m pretty sure during my MIT interview I talked more about the classes I didn’t like rather than the classes I liked. Oops</p>
<p>I interviewed at a college and didn’t realize until I walked out that I had put on a button-down shirt with a huge rip in the underarm. My dad hadn’t noticed it either. Fortunately they joked about it being a positive, I was an athlete and it looked like I moved around a lot, but I really wish I would have double checked before leaving the hotel. I felt like a slob the whole day and no opportunity to change. Just constantly kept my right arm down - hard to do when you have to shake hands …</p>