<p>So today, I got to the interview for a small Northern liberal arts school (not naming names!) and the man interviewing started out by saying “um…so…do I ask you questions or…um do you ask me?” I was just like “um…a little of both, I think.” Hmm. </p>
<p>I mispronounced Bowdoin (thankfully not the school I was interviewing for today) and he called me out on it. Then I said, “I’m generally not very good at math” and he said, “You might not want to advertise that.”</p>
<p>Awkward…</p>
<p>I finally have stories for this thread:</p>
<p>Today, I had an interview for a small engineering school. </p>
<p>Interviewer: Did you you run your own research or did the PI’s tell you what to do?
Me: <em>Thinking Ill bring in my awesome research knowledge and how smart I am</em> Starts blathering on about how I found this one thing in my research. It goes nowhere.
I: Is this going anywhere? You basically worked by your self?
Me: Yes… >.<</p>
<p>Interviewer: Do you have any weaknesses?
Me: Procrastination. Like yesterday for example, I got home at 4 PM and didn’t start my homework till 9.
Interviewer: 
Me: But I didn’t have very much homework… >.<</p>
<p>I did a lot of research about the school but I didn’t have any questions… :(</p>
<p>Oh well, the interview went okay but we didn’t click. Oh well…</p>
<p>RootBeer: That’s just messed up, so the interviewer didnt even know what he was supposed to do ? weirdd… I dont see anything grossly wrong if you mispronounce…</p>
<p>Hitman: yea, i get the same idea too somethimes… hearing people on CC where interviews last for 3 hours and all, I get the feeling my interviews were just not good enough :'(.</p>
<p>This thread is so funny! I hope I don’t have too many embarrassing stories to tell. I have four interviews coming up in the next three weeks - Colby, Bowdoin, Conn College, and (if everything works out) Carleton. There ends my interviewing, for now. I played phone tag with one of my interviewers, though. She emailed me, I emailed back, thanking her, called her, left a message, she called me. A bit awkward.</p>
<p>What do you do when they let YOU pick the location? An interviewer said I could pick anywhere I wanted, because she wanted me to be comfortable. I listed three places, saying she could pick what would be easy for her to get to. Then she assured me she wanted me to feel “safe” - so I picked Place A, which was a bit far from her (20 min.) Is that okay?</p>
<p>Also, should I bring a resume for my interviewers? I haven’t turned any of my applications in yet, so they don’t have anything about me.</p>
<p>I made interviewer come close to crying. We were talking about historic sites and Birmingham, Alabama was mentioned, and he teared up. The interview was great and they guy was AWESOME, but I did think that was awkward.</p>
<p>bump 
keep the awkwardness alive!!!</p>
<p>I had the most awkward interview for a small LAC. We went to a little coffee shop. I got there fifteen minutes early because I wanted to decide what I was going to order. I decided on herbal tea. They only had one kind, with a really long and awkward name (it was for Breast Cancer Awareness) so I was going to order it myself.</p>
<p>I’m waiting for the interviewer… I have no idea what she looks like. A couple women walk in, and they are talking. None of them appear to be looking for anyone. Turns out, one of them was my interviewer. She asks if I want anything, I offer to pay, etc. Then, SHE tells me to sit down and she will order it. I blank on the name of the tea, so I sputter that I want English Breakfast Tea. I HATE English Breakfast Tea.
So she brings back the tea (she gets the same) but immediately takes the tea bag out. I was thinking “What the heck is she doing? It hasn’t had more than 20 seconds to steep!” I don’t think that I should probably do the same, because interview last around an hour to an hour and a half. <em>head desk</em> I barely drink my tea, because by the end, it tastes like pure tar. </p>
<p>So, she asks three questions for the entire interview, which lasted for an hour and fifteen minutes. And the first question is the most awkward: “Where else are you applying?” I try hard not to gape. Seriously, I basically said, “I’m applying to various colleges similar to college X in size and location.” Then she asks me why I’m applying to X college. Third question was “How could you handle getting Cs and Ds at college because X college is really hard.” Most of the interview was me asking HER questions. Because she would say, “we have 15 minutes left… anything to ask me?” So I had to think quickly, lol. She didn’t take any notes, and simply said, at the end, “I’m going to highly recommend you. You seem like a great match for X college. You’re going to be very surprised in the spring at how many options you will have.” That really surprised me.</p>
<p>Overall, it was the most awkward of my four interviews. I hope I didn’t reveal too much about the college or interviewer… I just was startled at the composition of this interview. My English teacher has helped me prepare for interviewers (she almost takes the place of a guidance counselor) and she laughed so much when I told her this story.</p>
<p>Not really that awk but trying to keep this thread alive!
My interviewer had asked me a bunch of Qs about myself and then he asked me to ask him some Qs about himself, the college, whatever. So I started off asking him stuff, and then something in his answer would trigger another question, and it was going pretty well. But after this had gone on for like 25 minutes I was really struggling to come up with Qs, waiting for him to end the interview. I’d avert my eyes, staring at a spot several feet above his head, being like “… uh… hmm… … … how’s the food…?” and stupid stuff like that. Eventually I realized that since now I was asking the Qs, I should end the interview. So I go, “I don’t think I’ve really got anymore Qs.” And he says, “Oh, that’s absolutely fine. You’ve asked really a lot already.”</p>
<p>Uh… Ooops. Lol.</p>
<p>On the whole the interview actually went pretty well though.</p>
<p>Not a college interview but…
Interviewer: So, what is your favorite TV show?
Me: I… I don’t really watch TV
Interviewer: You don’t seem like the type, you’re very serious for your age
I could’ve just said The Simpsons for Friends, I’m now this stoic teenager</p>
<p>My guy asked my SAT subscores… I didn’t know them becaues I took the SAT once and never looked back… He thought I was a ■■■■■■</p>
<p>Well, I’m bumping this up what with the EA/ED deadline now passed. I’m sure I’ll finally be able to add my own story to this thread next week when I have my Yale SCEA interview. =P</p>
<p>My whole interview went really well I think. 
But RIGHT after we shook hands and said goodbye, I picked up my phone to call my parents to tell them to pick me up, and out of habit, I redialed the last dialed number without looking at it. I ended up calling my interviewer when she was still about 10m away from me. 
UGH!</p>
<p>It was a walking around the campus sort of discussion interview, and she showed me this tiny room and we went in and had to get out and I was too close to the door to open it properly and she was super close behind me. So I managed to squeeze through but kind of annihilate my pinky toe in the process (flip flops…) and then she kept asking me if I wanted ice or to sit down or something.</p>
<p>Hahaha I was just freaking out in my mind like IT’S NOT A BIG DEAL OH GOD IT’S NOT CAN WE PLEASE NOT DISCUSS MY FEET.</p>
<p>Everything else went really well. I just wish I wasn’t so clumsy all the time…</p>
<p>Oh, the ED deadline hasn’t passed for everyone! November 15 is also a common ED app deadline. I’m scrambling around like mad.</p>
<p>Well, here’s a pretty awkward Swarthmore interview I had. </p>
<p>Interviewer: So what do you like to do?
Me: Oh, I love reading! <em>goes on about reading and my many books</em>
Interviewer: <em>nodding</em> So what have you read lately?
Me: I just finished Siddhartha and Little, Big. (which is a nerdy fantasy book)
Interviewer: What’d you think about Siddhartha?
Me: I didn’t really like it…<em>goes on to explain why I didn’t really like it</em>
Inteviewer: I love Hermann Hesse…I was actually a German Literature major.
Me: Oh. OHHH. Well, I mean, it’s a good book if you like that kind of thing, lots of spiritualism, flowing word choice, it’s a great book to read out loud!
Interviewer: Let’s move on…</p>
<p>The interview went downhill from there. She was the assistant dean of admissions too, which made everything worse. I don’t think I’m getting into Swarthmore…</p>
<p>I had a bit of an awkward moment at my MIT interview… My interviewer asked me what I thought about the future of computers and, basically, whether or not I thought they were going to take over the world. I replied that no, I didn’t. He responded, “Well, some people think that the human race is eventually going to become silicon-based life forms, sort of like in Star Wars.” </p>
<p>Of course, geeky me had to correct him that he probably meant Star Trek. Bit of an awkward pause, and a quick subject change. ><</p>
<p>lolz haha i crack under pressure too during interviewss</p>
<p>Well I have my first interview on Thursday with WashU so I’m certain I’ll have some pretty interesting stuff to contribute to this thread after that :)</p>
<p>My interviewer’s name was Anya, and I’m Russian, so I casually asked her if she was Slavic. And she goes, “I HATE when people ask me that. I’m not Slavic!!!” and proceeds to tell me about how much grief she’s gotten from other people about it for 5 minutes straight.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>“A friend of mine agreed to have her Duke interview at a Starbucks. She gets there a little early and decides to sit down and wait for her interviewer. As she is waiting, a homeless woman sits down next to her. My friend gets a little flustered by this and tells her that she is meeting someone. The homeless woman leaves and her interviewer eventually arrives. As she is being interviewed, my friend sees the homeless woman outside, mocking her every movement as she is being interviewed. If my friend would raise her arm to emphasize something, so would the woman. Because the window was behind the interviewer, only my friend could see this going on and she was freaking out. At the end, she asked her interviewer to escort her to her car.”</p>
<p>This “crazy” woman has stolen my heart.</p>
<p>I did a skype interview for Bard and as soon as the lady began talking my dog started yapping like CRAZY. It took me a while to calm him down.</p>