<p>I'll start--</p>
<p>My older sister's Harvard interviewer neglected to tell her that she had turets until the end of the interview (of course my sister found out the hard way). When my sister described how greatly she enjoyed the writing of Virgil, she was interrupted by being called a [profanity]!"
bbbaad.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!!</p>
<p>That totally just made my day!</p>
<p>I remember my interview for the 9th grade when I was transfering schools.</p>
<p>There were three people in there and I was really nervous. Then one of them asked me:</p>
<p>"Why did you choose to go to this school instead of your old school?"</p>
<p>There could not have been more stupid an answer!
I said:
"Because they accept a minimum of 60% from the 8th grade!"</p>
<p>Of course they were surprised and asked me: "omg! How much did you get?"</p>
<p>I said: "85%"</p>
<p>"okay, then what's the problem?"</p>
<p>I wanted to say that the kids who go there would be a bad influence on me. But it came out like this:</p>
<p>"Well, because they're all worse than me."</p>
<p>They just started looking at me like I was crazy. But in the end I was accepted.</p>
<p>But what really ****ed me off was the fact that when school started, all the stupid teachers would come up to me and say:"Are you okay? Feeling fine? Have you made any friends yet?"</p>
<p>That made me really really angry. But i refused to say anything,</p>
<p>THE END.</p>
<p>^^^ That story totally confused me.</p>
<p>I know. I was typing while not looking at the keyboard so I was concentrating on the individual words rather than the sentences.
In a nutshell:
I answered their questions completely wrong - according to them.</p>
<p>I had a job interview for a newbury comics and they asked me what I liekd about the place and i told them "this place is just so emo I love it."</p>
<p>At my interview for a boarding school, my new high heels were pinching my toes, so as soon as the interview started I said "Can I take these off? They really hurt." I took off my shoes, sat in seizu on the couch, and just chatted with my interviewer.</p>
<p>Apparently she loved it and I got in. But I don't reccomend this to anyone.</p>
<p>My sister flew out - on her nickel - to a well-respected state university on the West Coast for a graduate program interview/tour around '94. When she arrived on the prearranged date, she found that the school was <em>closed</em> for a holiday. </p>
<p>She was very disappointed, and called the professor that she was supposed to meet. He seemed clueless at first, then he realized the situation and apologized profusely. So she met him and was able to meet a few more people connected to the department. And the first words that came out of his mouth during the face-to-face meeting were along the lines of "You may have heard some bad things about the department, but don't worry about that." She liked the school and area and was offered a decent grad assistant salary, and went home with mixed feelings.</p>
<p>A week or so later the prof called her back and apologized for quoting her a salary that was higher than what they would actually be able to offer. I think that was the final straw for her, and she attended another highly-ranked program on the East Coast.</p>
<p>what are turets?</p>
<p>Tourette's syndrome.</p>
<p>in a college interview I had, I was talking about using research to test new drugs like anxiety drugs. She said she played paddle ball with a friend who was taking anxiety drugs. I laughed and asked how that went.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Well... she's taking anxiety drugs because her father passed away.</p>
<p>I felt so stupid and bad. I laughed right before also...</p>
<p>Tourette's is an inherited neurological disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by the presence of multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic. Tourette's was once considered a rare and bizarre syndrome, most often associated with the exclamation of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks (coprolalia). However, this symptom is present in only a small minority of people with Tourette's. Since the incidence may be as high as one in a hundred people, up to 530,000 U.S. school-age children may have Tourette's, with the more common tics of eye blinking, coughing, throat clearing, sniffing, and facial movements.</p>
<p>one of my friends when I was younger has tourettes, and had to blow air out of her nose. It wasn't too bad, but she thought it would make everyone annoyed...but it didn't.</p>
<p>I had an interview at a small liberal arts school which shall remain nameless. The interviewer, who was a student, could barely function, and about 5 minutes into the thing, she was like "I'm so hung-over, I need coffee", and just got up and left. After she came back, the interview only lasted like, another 10 minutes of her trying to think of what to ask, then I left and didn't bother taking the tour that was supposed to follow.</p>
<p>A few years ago my oldest daughter applied to Columbia University. We live about 20 miles from Manhattan and can actually see the Manhattan skyline from where we live. My daughter was interviewed by a Columbia alumnus and was asked - "so, what do you think of the Columbia campus?" My daughter had never been to the campus and told him so. Given our proximity to the campus and her never having visited, that ended the interview!</p>
<p>that ended the interview? the guy just left?</p>
<p>I was interviewing for a Top 10 b-school and was asked, as an opener: What do you do in your current job? My mind blanked for a moment and I answered with what I think was an irritated tone: "A little bit of this, a little bit of that."</p>
<p>I recognized that this was an extremely weak opener, so tried to pass it off as a joke and explain myself. Though really I was just annoyed at the whole interview process at the time.</p>
<p>Later in the interview I was asked the most fun I had in the last year, a question I hadn't anticipated, and I quickly said "I went scuba diving in the Bay of Pigs on New Year's Day." (Truth). The interviewer seemed dumbfounded.</p>
<p>I got in.</p>
<p>College Interview for Penn: We had the interview at Starbucks. I got there first and ordered a drink. I never offered him a drink but I think he said he didn't want one before we sat down. During the interview he said something like I was the type of kid to explore topics outside of school and write programs and teach myself Java (we were talking about favorite classes and I said AP Programming). Instead of just nodding my head and making up some BS I told the truth and said "Not really. I don't use my free time to program at home." Then he kept telling me to go for the legacy interview and I kept beating around the bush that my parents didn't believe in spending a day in Philly for me to have an interview that may have no affect on admissions (it didn't). Then at the end, we just sat there for a few minutes without talking before we parted ways. I still got in, so I think the interviewer just tried to make me look good rather than trying to portray me in a bad way.</p>
<p>Interview for Internship: After I talked to a lab chief, I talked to one of the post docs who was working at the lab. He was a recent immigrant (East Asian) and I couldn't understand his accent. He decided to explain the immune system to me, but not just the basic stuff.. All of it. So in 1 hour he tried to tell me as much as he could. I dozed off half way through and woke up and he was still going. I didn't get the job at the lab, but it was probably for the best.</p>
<p>this didn't happen to me, but it happened to a friend of mine.</p>
<p>so, she was at this interview with a columbia alumnus. so she went on for a bit talking about herself and what she did and all the like. so after maybe 15 minutes, the guy asks her why she wanted to go to columbia in particular and she said...
"wait, columbia? i thought this was the yale interview!"</p>
<p>oooooooh my god that is the worst</p>
<p>My interview for a large upstate private university in New York with a fabulous journalism program was hellacious. First of all my mom drove 1 and half hours through the rain to get me there. When I introduced myself to the freshly graduated interview, the first thing she did was check out my shoes. No joke. She seemed annoyed that I hadn't memorized the itinerary of my summer trip to Israel and she kept asking me the kinds of questions that one would expect from a job interview. She didn't make eye contact with me once. I totally got a bad vibe from her.</p>