<p>My awkward interview went like this…</p>
<p>Me shopping with my dad
Dad: Hey, what time is your interview again?
Me: Oh it’s at four.
Dad: Are you sure?
Me: Yeah but I can check again if you want…(Looks at email)
Me: Oops, it’s at two.
Dad: It’s two ten.</p>
<p>A butt load of cursing ensues, followed by a call to my interviewer telling her I’d be at least another 25 minutes.</p>
<p>Soooo I had to drive another thirty minutes to get the Starbucks where my interviewer had been waiting. I also had to change in my car and subsequently flashed at least 3 drivers (and my dad…awkward). Oh, and I hadn’t showered or brushed my teeth for the day yet. Awesomeee</p>
<p>My interview for UPS (small LAC in Washington) was going really well, until we were talking about the state schools (I’m in California) and I mentioned CSU Chico, which has a reputation as a big party school.</p>
<p>Me: Yeah, well, I think almost all the people who go to CSU Chico are kind of just there to party for four years…
[silence]
Her: Actually, my husband when to Chico, and then on to Harvard for grad school.</p>
<p>…you can’t really recover from that. I tried with, “well, I hear they’re really good for construction management…?”.</p>
<p>Hahaha, yep, some things are not recoverable. That’s why you got to be careful when talking about another school.</p>
<p>yeah, i know. but really, out of all the schools i had to pick…</p>
<p>Remember that the interview won’t break your chances. And, there are many more great colleges out there. Best wishes.</p>
<p>This wasn’t really awkward, but embarrassing.</p>
<p>I was interviewing with a Tufts alumni, she was taking the occasional note on a legal pad, and we got to talk about speech & debate. I said something along the lines of, “I just love the feeling when we’re all still practicing at the high school at like midnight, and I walk down the hall and see all my fellow dedicated speech kids.” A stupid thing to say in itself, but she evidently took something else from it…</p>
<p>I watched her take notes, and what she wrote just said “stays at school until midnight.” Tufts, I promise I’m not that much of a loser!</p>
<p>Skidmore interviewer:So tell me something about yourself that I wouldn’t know just by looking at you
Me: Uhhhhhhhhhhh once a coconut fell on my head
interviewer: Oh… ok</p>
<p>^ ROFL. I love your answer.</p>
<p>as a parent vicariously reading through these …I think there could be a book here…It is the thread to come to for belly laughs. You kids display great humor and positive attitude…best of luck…I think you may remember these funny “bad” interviews until the day you share them with your own kids as they go out the door for their interviews…</p>
<p>i told my interviewer that i like to tinker with the software on my comp on weekends, like the tech industry, and want to work there but am majoring in econ because i want a more social job than coding in front of a computer screen for hours, and she told me that stanford would be a better fit for me. she also told me that if i don’t get into harvard for my bachelor’s, i can always apply to graduate school there like she did. and the interview only lasted for half an hour. how bad was my interview, and how much could it affect my admissions decision?</p>
<p>^Hard to tell, without seeing her facial expression, tone, etc. and knowing her interview MO. Those are pretty thoughtless things to say to an applicant! Hard to tell, too, from the interview length; some interviews only last half an hour and are not bad. I saw that you had posted this in the Harvard forum. For Harvard the interview has to be really bad to break you, so I would not worry about it. Luckily, you won’t have to wait too much longer for the decision. Good luck!</p>
<p>Interviewer: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?
Me: Ive read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media
Interviewer: But what ones specifically? Im curious.
Me: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.
Interviewer: Can you name any of them?</p>
<p>Really could have gone better…</p>
<p>^Haha did you get caught in a lie or do you actually read newspapers</p>
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<p>I betcha, Sarah :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I think I must have used every vague colloquialism in the book…</p>
<p>Not really awkward moment but almost was… my interviewer asked me what my two favorite books were and I hadn’t prepared for that. I said Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, then Elements of Style. I then panicked because I thought those sounded awfully nerdy, but her face totally lit up when I said EoS… turns out she loves it too. And then we had an awesome nerdy conversation about the book. :D</p>
<p>@Omega: Sarah Palin, is that you?</p>
<p>This wasn’t at an interview but at a competition for “confidence champion” which was sponsored by a very popular milk powder brand.</p>
<p>Interviewer: So, what do you like to do?
Me: Reading, writing, swimming, singing and travelling
Him: Travelling, how?
Me: By plane
Him: Why by plane? Why not on foot?
I’m thinking, because I can’t travel 4000km on foot duh!
Me: Because you get to draw on the air sickness bags in planes.</p>
<p>I won the competition. This was during freshman year btw.</p>
<p>I got arrested the day before for robbing a bank. I went into the interviewers house, and it was the police officer who arrested me. Awkward or naa???</p>
<p>I scheduled my Princeton interview for 2 on a sunday afternoon. The day before, at about 2:10, I get a phone call. It’s my interviewer, sitting at Caribou, wondering where I am. I promptly freak out, wondering if I got the date mixed up, and assure her that I can come right away. Turns out she had switched two of her interviews around.</p>