<p>Just wondering if anyone had any funny or awkward moments when they had been on any of their interviews. Personally, the first thing that comes to mind is some how I got off topic, well not really I had been talking about my job, and I randomly told him the process of making peanut butter, yea I know how odd, but the only thing that come to mind is he probably wasn't phased since all I can remember is him downing his matza ball soup and randomly spitting it in my face, so yeah. Plus, somehow I told him, and I'm a 17 yr. old male, that on occassion I enjoy going on the sight neopets, yes I know, what a messed up interview, but hey, funny how I'm actually going there now, life worked it's weird web on me apparently :).</p>
<p>Haha. I'm still a sophomore. But that's a funny/odd interview. I'm sure it was a great time haha.</p>
<p>my interviewer for Duke was really funny. He was about 30 and we got along great. The funniest momement for me was when we first met and I sat down and he asks "what color best describes you and why?". I stared at him blankly and was wondering if he was serious, and he had a very serious face. So I started, uhhh... and he went "JUST KIDDING!" and I knew from that point on it was going to be a good interview. We did it at Moe's too, which was funny because it is hard to look normal while attacking a burrito that is falling apart.</p>
<p>i had an interview at a starbucks closer to my house and my interviewer's... about 45 minutes into the interview, he saw his wife walk in! it was the first time she'd been to that starbucks, but she was in the area and just bumped into us! I thought that was pretty funny</p>
<p>awkward? 50 year old interview hitting on you at his house at a 9:00 pm interview. weirddd.</p>
<p>i've had many funny moments in interviews...for my yale interview, the woman was very very socially awkward. we were talking, and she asked if i had any questions, so i asked, "how's the social atmosphere at yale?" She responded, "i didn't have a social life at yale and was a nerd who studied all the time....." and that, was quite awkward...but i still had a good interview and got in...</p>
<p>for ucsd med scholar interview, one of the two interviewees was a really old guy, who i thought was going a bit senile. he answered two very different questions with the same answer and continued talking...but like all ass kisser, juss smile and nod...</p>
<p>the other interviewer was an ******* ER doctor that dissed my sister cuz she was going into plastics, saying how she's going in it only for the money (even though she's going into humanitarian work in 3rd world countries) and then he quized me about the bones in the body, to which i had no clue...so i was just like, i don't know...but i guess honesty worked? cuz got in there too...haha</p>
<p>i think interviews are mostly about your character, not as much as what you've done or how smart, but how well you can appear socially...cuz there will always be smart people, but will there be smart peope that fit into a social world...</p>
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my interviewer for Duke was really funny. He was about 30 and we got along great. The funniest momement for me was when we first met and I sat down and he asks "what color best describes you and why?". I stared at him blankly and was wondering if he was serious, and he had a very serious face. So I started, uhhh... and he went "JUST KIDDING!"
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<p>I actually LOLed, by myself, in the school computer lab.
Embarrassing...</p>
<p>haha...nice ;)</p>
<p>Tony88....that one cracked me up. Though I actually DID get the question...like 4 times! My WUSTL interview:</p>
<p>Interviewer: What color best describes you and why?
Me: Uh....blue? <em>Explains</em>
Interviewer: Ok, next question. What sound best describes you, and why?
Me: Hmm
Interviewer: And not Mariah Carey! (he had seen that I run a Mariah Carey fan club on my info sheet and gave me this really evil stare)
Me: <em>Explains</em>
Interviewer: What smell best describes you, and why?
Me: You've got to be kidding me.....</p>
<p>No joke that's how it went.</p>
<p>after talking about being interested in medicine, my interviewer (an experienced lawyer) started asking me about politics in medicine. sooo painful and awkward.</p>
<p>I went to talk to my admissions counselor (who had read my file in which I'd included a letter explaining the impact my mother's death had had on me) abd at the end of the talk she was like: "okay, thanks for coming in, is your mom with you does</p>
<p>Haha, I had a similar experience with those out there questions, but the question I got was, "If you could be any plant, which plant would you be and why?" For fun, I decided to describe an imaginary plant (I forgot the exact details I used, but it was a pretty neat plant), and I suppose my interviewer liked my creativity.</p>
<p>But my most fun interview was for UChicago. My interviewer and I talked about topics ranging from American politics, the history of the US Supreme Court, linguistics, to living in the Midwest. The interview lasted an hour and a half instead of the scheduled half an hour, but it was a great conversation.</p>
<p>I am terrible at interviews, hence these gems of awkwardness:</p>
<p>~ I mentioned a book (Nine Stories) that we read in book club a long time ago, and my interviewer had read it and wanted to discuss it. Them: "So what's your favorite of the stories?" Me: "Umm... I don't remember very well. The one on the beach where the guy kills himself at the end?"
~ They asked me about my favorite extracurricular activities, and I left out the four most important and spent the whole time talking about unimportant clubs like Math Club, in which I went to two meetings in three years.
~ I got an extremely liberal interviewer, and he asked me what I thought about welfare reform (after I told him that economics is my weakest point). I said that I wasn't informed on the topic, and he glared at me and then spent the next ten minutes ranting.
~ At a Hendrix scholarship interview, I said "I want to go to Beloit because..." AHHH! THE CARDINAL SIN OF INTERVIEWS!!!</p>
<p>I hate interviews.</p>
<p>Two memorable interviews:</p>
<p>My first with MIT, I was so nervous that I let it slip that I had heard something like "MIT grads often work for Harvard grads." Didn't get in, lol</p>
<p>My last one was with the University of Chicago-- known for weird interviews, so I thought I was ready. The guy didn't ask me any questions about myself. At all. He wanted me to ask him questions the whole time. Then I mentioned somethign about how I liked politics and he got into a huge debate about EVERYTHING with me. And we were both liberal. It entailed him questioning basically everything I said and me defending it, and if you know anything about the straw man fallacy... well that was the whole interview. I wanted to pee afterwards, and I've won awards in the double digits for debate. </p>
<p>I got in though.</p>
<p>yeah...for my Yale interview...I had an extremly liberal interviewer and he asked me if I watch the news or read the newspaper on a regular basis and I mentioned that I liked to watch Fox News...so, yeah...after I said that I knew it was a mistake lol.</p>
<p>damn.. I do not know what i'd answer to the question "What color best describes you and why"?</p>
<p>Brown because i'm south asian? hahahahh ... How would you guys justify a color that you pick?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>wazzup..how did I explain the color I chose? And the sound? And the smell? Much BS. :-D</p>