I walk into the office shake hands and the interviewer starts with, "so what in the world was [she] doing in a canoe pregnant?" (The question stemmed from a story in one of my essays)
So I say, "well, I'm sure she'll never do that again and she was only in her first trimester."
Apparently he had read all my essays and activities because he follows up my answer with a story about a pregnant person dying after jumping out of a plane. Well if you read my app you would know that I jumped out of airplanes. He follows he story up with "anyone who jumps out of a perfectly good aircraft is crazy." And "we must be opposites."
He then asks the typical, why medicine question in an atypical manner. "Looking at your file, I'd have no idea you were applying to medical school, except for the fact that we are sitting in a medical school, so why medicine?"
When things are getting good he tells me, " my grandfather served in one of the wars..." At this point I start to think, finally! We have something in common.
Well, that thought was short lived because this is how he finished his statement, "and [my grandfather] taught me to avoid the military at all costs."
Sooo... He made lots of these kinds of statements that made many of my "good" activities seem totally bad and he rarely followed these statements up with a question.
Yep, that was my most difficult interview.
I remember sitting there wondering what in the world is going to come out of my mouth next....
...they really asked you...well we're you prepared?
