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The discussion in the 2013 Match Rank List Help Thread put this idea in my head. What was the absolute best pre-interview dinner that you went on?
As the poster who served as the inspiration for the aforementioned idea - Columbia. Good food, endless sangria, then tequila shots. Legend has it that not too long ago one of the applicants got so drunk that he failed to show up for the interview next morning. Upon hearing this, the PD reprimanded the residents who subsequently continued to order endless sangria and tequila shots on following preinterview dinners.
Best dinner I had was at BI...we went to a Japanese restaurant. 4 courses. Started off with some delicious salmon-thingy that one of the residents referred to its addictiveness to that of crack. 2nd course was every vegetable you could imagine tempura fried. 3rd course was a wooden boat with 20 different types of sushi. 4th course was 4 different desserts, including probably the best tiramisu I've ever had. Plus all kinds of wine and beer.
I'm salivating just thinking about it again...
Best dinner I had was at BI...we went to a Japanese restaurant. 4 courses. Started off with some delicious salmon-thingy that one of the residents referred to its addictiveness to that of crack. 2nd course was every vegetable you could imagine tempura fried. 3rd course was a wooden boat with 20 different types of sushi. 4th course was 4 different desserts, including probably the best tiramisu I've ever had. Plus all kinds of wine and beer.
I'm salivating just thinking about it again...
That is so awesome I can only hope it is true,
Quality of restaurant obviously matters, but the key was being able to order any food or drink off the menu as opposed to limited selection. Very few places offered this
The tequila shots part is true. I witnessed that myself - didn't indulge in it because I am a lightweight when it comes to alcohol. The one about someone getting too drunk is second hand info. I did see some candidates dunking down six sangrias and then doing shots so there 'maybe' some truth to it. Dunno fo sho.
I'm not doubting the tequila shots. I just think it is hilarious that some one could be so dumb as to drink so much the night before their interview that they couldn't even make it to the program the next day!
What did the restaurant screw up at the OU interview?
Without question the ABSOLUTE BEST pre interview dinner I went to was....
THE LAST ONE.
Little did I know that I would be on the other end interviewing residents later on.
At that point, the best pre interview dinner was....
THE LAST ONE.
This x1000000.
UK and Stony Brook come to mind as best dinners.
Stony Brook also put us up at a sweet hotel the night before. Another place that comes to mind was UTMB Galveston which paid airfare, hotel and took us to lunch at the yacht club. A shame about the location since it was one of my favorite programs that I interviewed at. My favorite though was Jackson Memorial.. dinner in south beach AFTER the interview and I had food and liquor coming out of every pore by the end of the night.
PS. On a related note, I will never forget the coordinator from Shreveport suggesting, in her thickest Louisiana drawl, that I stay at the motel 6 the night before the interview. Needless to say I passed.
Without question the ABSOLUTE BEST pre interview dinner I went to was....
THE LAST ONE.
Little did I know that I would be on the other end interviewing residents later on.
At that point, the best pre interview dinner was....
THE LAST ONE.
Wow, Galveston paid for a grand total of nothing last year and took us to some fairly crappy soup and sandwich joint in town whose oven was broken.Another place that comes to mind was UTMB Galveston which paid airfare, hotel and took us to lunch at the yacht club.