how bad was my answer...

[Ninomiya]

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sry guys, this is more of a rant than a question, it's been bugging me for weeks, especially when i won't find out the real outcome for another 2 months (canadian school system sux...)

so i had this interview (my only one this yr) last week and got asked this question "what would ur friend say about ur strength and weakness", i prepared for strength and weakness question, but somehow i slipped out the "i sometimes undermine my own confidence" crap cuz my friend actually told me that a few weeks before the interview......i managed to say something along the lines of "i try to be humble and modest and not over-arrogant for further personal development" as my strength in attempt to balance it.....but that just seemed way too screwed up and i was too freaked out by wut i said and didn't elaborate on how to "fix" the weakness....

so how bad is this in ur opinion? i just can't stop thinking about it, especially when my only backup is to complete a two years in master before reapplying again....i just feel hopelessly stupid that i managed to screw up with some stupid answer like that in my one and only interview which will cost me another two years........

k done ranting, if this doesn't belong here, mr. mod feel free to remove it🙁

 

[GoSpursGo]

Fear not, everyone's allowed a random rant during this incredibly stressful process 🙂

In any case, I think your answer wasn't great, but I don't think it was damning in-and-of-itself either. Most likely the rest of your interview will be more important than one slip of the tongue; one answer isn't going to make or break you.

Just try not to beat yourself up too much about it; what's done is done.

 

[chemnerd89]

I definitely said some weird stuff during my first couple of interviews.

 

[BoneMachine]

If you made it this far in the process, be proud of yourself! Everyone is allowed a few nervous errors.

 

[phospho]

sry guys, this is more of a rant than a question, it's been bugging me for weeks, especially when i won't find out the real outcome for another 2 months (canadian school system sux...)

so i had this interview (my only one this yr) last week and got asked this question "what would ur friend say about ur strength and weakness", i prepared for strength and weakness question, but somehow i slipped out the "i sometimes undermine my own confidence" crap cuz my friend actually told me that a few weeks before the interview......i managed to say something along the lines of "i try to be humble and modest and not over-arrogant for further personal development" as my strength in attempt to balance it.....but that just seemed way too screwed up and i was too freaked out by wut i said and didn't elaborate on how to "fix" the weakness....

so how bad is this in ur opinion? i just can't stop thinking about it, especially when my only backup is to complete a two years in master before reapplying again....i just feel hopelessly stupid that i managed to screw up with some stupid answer like that in my one and only interview which will cost me another two years........

k done ranting, if this doesn't belong here, mr. mod feel free to remove it🙁

haha.. you remind me of my interview at ohio state... it was the student interviewer who was interviewing me, and she was using the F word after every other word.

Now, our friends here on SDN always tell us that no matter how much our interviewer uses profanity, never go along with that. So, I watch my words, and I am extremely polite at that interview until she asks me that one question: " what would your friends say about you"? without thinking, I blurted out "they think I'm ****ing crazy!" she laughs, and I start getting worried that i might have screwed that interview up. She then wants to know what my friends mean when they call me crazy, and so i just told her that i like to cram for my exams, as in I spend 2-3 days with no sleep till I get everything done. I was basically digging myself a deeper hole (because we all know that this method is frowned down upon in medical school!).

she then tries to take the pressure off me by saying that she understood what my friends mean and that how I was a perfectionist and needed to get everything done quick (i was thinking to myself, who? me? perfectionist? whatever floats your boat miss MS3).

In short, it was a horrible interview, but I got in, and that's all that matters. So keep your head up!

 

[Ninomiya]

haha.. you remind me of my interview at ohio state... it was the student interviewer who was interviewing me, and she was using the F word after every other word.

Now, our friends here on SDN always tell us that no matter how much our interviewer uses profanity, never go along with that. So, I watch my words, and I am extremely polite at that interview until she asks me that one question: " what would your friends say about you"? without thinking, I blurted out "they think I'm ****ing crazy!" she laughs, and I start getting worried that i might have screwed that interview up. She then wants to know what my friends mean when they call me crazy, and so i just told her that i like to cram for my exams, as in I spend 2-3 days with no sleep till I get everything done. I was basically digging myself a deeper hole (because we all know that this method is frowned down upon in medical school!).

she then tries to take the pressure off me by saying that she understood what my friends mean and that how I was a perfectionist and needed to get everything done quick (i was thinking to myself, who? me? perfectionist? whatever floats your boat miss MS3).

In short, it was a horrible interview, but I got in, and that's all that matters. So keep your head up!

o yea that reminded me.....i got a question on my study method........and i said "i keep reading until it gets stuck in my mind and memorize everything" w/o thinking...when i should have gone for the problem-solving route!!

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

done another ranting....now i need to sulk myself to sleep...🙁

 

[GoSpursGo]

o yea that reminded me.....i got a question on my study method........and i said "i keep reading until it gets stuck in my mind and memorize everything" w/o thinking...when i should have gone for the problem-solving route!!

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

done another ranting....now i need to sulk myself to sleep...🙁

I'm relatively certain that won't help you get in...

I mean, by all means start thinking about how you'd re-tool your application if you wind up being in that position. But nothing you've said here is particularly damning. I think we all think of "perfect" answers that we could've said after the fact, but that doesn't make all of the answers we used "wrong."

I literally answered something to the effect of, "I think medical education is pretty much the same at every school," in response to, "Why are you applying to our specific school," at one of my interviews. Life goes on.

 

[Ninomiya]

true.....i guess i'm overload w/ anxiety from the wait and other crapload of things i have to do yet cannot focus on....wut happened to my poise *sniff*

 

[zayka]

Don't worry about it. What's done is done. Nothing you can really do now. Just hope for the best!

 

[Red Leader]

See, questions like this is exactly why I cleverly don't have friends.

Adcom: "What would your friends say about you?"
Me: "hmm a trick question eh? Guess what, I don't have friends! The trick's on YOU"
Adcom: "Security."

 

[Ninomiya]

i didn't give the details to that particular friend when he asked me how my interview went, didn't wanna sound like i was accusing him of anything 😛

but i do wish we nvr had that conversation to begin w/...🙁

 

[mbe36]

I don't think it was that bad of an answer or anything to lose sleep over. That's a pretty standard question and they just want you to come up with an answer.

It's not like you drew a blank for "Why medicine?"
lol Good luck- if this is your biggest worry, then you will be just fine!!

 

[aphios5]

Adcom: "What would your friends say about you?"
Me: "hmm a trick question eh? Guess what, I don't have friends! The trick's on YOU"
Adcom: "Security."