<p>Dog comes bounding up from the kitchen while I am waiting.
I am so focused, I do not see the dog until the last minute
in my peripheral vision.....then with a little yelp I overreact and bound up the
sofa and stare down the dog as my interviewer walks into his living room</p>
<p>mortifying</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Interview at Reed:</p>
<p>Student Interviewer: So what would make you not want to go to Reed?</p>
<p>Me: Uh. (mind going blank) If there were sea urchins in the dorms!</p>
<p>Interviewer: Well. That's different. Why?</p>
<p>So I then proceeded to rant about my sea urchin phobia. At least I was memorable, right?</p>
<p>That interview was pretty bad anyway (except for our extended political discussion). The questions were really random (for example, she also asked me what color I would be if I were one. I wriggled out of it saying that there are so many different shades of colors that it really depends). </p>
<p>I've done three more interviews since then and they were SO much better.</p>
<p>not so funny but meh</p>
<p>i was having a good interview with a harvard alum, and i had been talking about some things i really like about my school and i wanted to connect it to why i like harvard so i wanted to say, "I really like Harvard because<strong><em>" but I said "I really like S-...<em>second of awkward silence</em> I really like St-...<em>second of even more awkward silence</em> and then finally said I really like S</em></strong>_ and Harvard is like it in that blahbahjlblahblah" I almost said Stanford, but saved it with my school's name, which starts with an S. It was funny for me.</p>
<p>I had a Tufts interview last week and I was using unintentionally condescending language the entire time. I prefaced every statement with "well, basically,..." no matter what even though I tried to stop myself.</p>
<p>Some gems:</p>
<p>(about drama) "Well, basically I go on stage and entertain people."
(about research) "Well, basically <em>Einstein's theory of special relativity</em>"</p>
<p>My Rice interview asked if i had any questions, </p>
<p>"how are the fraternities and sororities??"</p>
<p>---- awk silence...</p>
<p>umm.. there's no greek life at Rice, it's all residential colleges...</p>
<p>I didn't know what to ask but i wanted to ask something... and i don't even care about greek life!! ahh.. i was mortified to say the least. i wish i had done more research, i looked so stupid.. and i was a tad bit over dressed</p>
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<p>I was 2 and a half hours early for my cornell interview.. i though there would be more traffic getting from Ann Arbor (where i was staying that night) to Detroit.. so i slept in my car..</p>
<p>I love this thread :)</p>
<p>During my cornell interview my phone rang and i blew it off saying it was my mom and not important.. ya.. awk..</p>
<p>during my carnegie interview, I said that UMICH was my safety and completely bashing their arch program... i find out later she's in the umich arch program (grad-school).. no wonder the interiview was in Ann Arbor...</p>
<p>My Berkeley Regents interviewer asked me why I got a 3 on my AP bio exam when I applied as a bioengineer. I should have told him that I took the exam as a freshman in HS and didn't study for it, but I was too caught off guard =P</p>
<p>The same interviewer then asked me to prove that the harmonic series diverges. Crazy EECS professors.</p>
<p>^^ OMG... i feel like a such nerd.. i know why harmonics diverge...</p>
<p>I walk (on time) for my interview, and the Alumni is interviewing my ex-boyfriend.</p>
<p>Awkward.</p>
<p>noinspiration, I had the same Reed interviewer as you!</p>
<p>For my Reed Interview:
"I have never had an interview with anyone in shorts, much less purple!"
As for my favourite colour, I told them that I really appreciated a certain shade of teal, that can be manipulated based upon the colours associated with it to portray a varying array of meaning... and the such.</p>
<p>My Brown interviewer asked something regarding how I was different
"Well I only grow chest hair on half of my chest...."
...
"want to see?"
(laughter?)</p>
<p>Oh and for my Deep Springs interview they had a large graduated cylinder of water. It was rather intimidating. None of the fellow applicants on my trip dared to drink from it.</p>
<p>haha, these are so funny. :)</p>
<p>during an ivy interview the dude asked me the awkwardest question:
"do you have any friends?" </p>
<p>i had to restrain myself from saying no **** dude</p>
<p>instead i settled with the polite yet still awkward "yea quite a lot actually"</p>
<p>and to meugenio why the hell are u applyin to deep springs loll isnt that the college where a bunch of naked dudes prance around a ranch?</p>
<p>during an ivy interview the dude asked me the awkwardest question:</p>
<h2>"do you have any friends?" </h2>
<p>If you apply to medical school be prepared for this question.</p>
<p>My favorite awkward interview story was by a guy who lived in my hall at MIT. </p>
<p>His Tufts interviewer asked him what he would major in, a perfectly innocuous question.</p>
<p>He answered,"I'm going to major in physics, not something totally pointless like French poetry or something like that." </p>
<p>His interviewer replied, "I've been a professor of French poetry for the past 30 years."</p>
<p>Needless to say, my friend didn't get in. I'm convinced he was the original carrier of Tufts syndrome.</p>
<p>tufts syndrome?
collegealum314, why do med school interviews ask that question?</p>
<p>Tufts syndrome is when a relatively less selective university (like Tufts) rejects a candidate that can get into a much better university (HYPMSC) because they think the candidate won't accept the offer to the less selective university.</p>
<p>Med schools ask that question to figure out whether you are social and hence can deal with patients.</p>
<p>Bbll76er</p>
<p>Deep Springs is a ranch, and the students are oft naked, however you also failed to mention that is among the greatest experiences available to any post-adolescent boy. The valleys voice changes people and I certainly hope to be fortunate enough to witness/undergo the transformation. </p>
<p>Oh, and they prance quite a bit. Prancing is my biggest (and favourite) EC.</p>
<p>I'm bumping my favorite thread.</p>
<p>bumpity bump bump</p>