most bizarre interview moment?

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brooklynblunder said:
you are missing out, cornbread is the ****
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I mean it's not that uncommon right? It's not like Naan or something...you wouldn't know if you haven't had Indian food.

But seriously??? You have never been to an American buffet? They almost always have some corn bread....you need to go to the grocery store, but some corn bread mix and make some...
 
Ilvcurst said:
Okay I can finally add something to this site. Some of you will know where this was at some won't. I'm a Chinese female and it will help you understand.

Him: So what ECs are you involved in?
Me: Well I swim, surf, snowboard, volleyball..basically a lot of sports since both my parents were college athletes.
Him: Yeah and you aren't like 80 lbs.
Me: (WTF did he just call me fat, then it came to me) Actually that is a stereotype of Asian people, that they are all 5'0" and 100 lbs. People from the South part of China tend to be smaller but I'm from Northern China, all my male relatives are over 6'0". (To be honest, I said this in kind of a stern manner cuz I was pissed).
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You know what, you should have acted flattered and responded "that makes both of us 😉" hehe
 
Ilvcurst said:
I mean it's not that uncommon right? It's not like Naan or something...you wouldn't know if you haven't had Indian food.

But seriously??? You have never been to an American buffet? They almost always have some corn bread....you need to go to the grocery store, but some corn bread mix and make some...
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I have had Naan. I have never had cornbread.
Funny how the world revolves huh.

Looks like Imma have to get some cornbread making-friends.
😛 (Much easier than going to the grocery store, getting cornbread mix, and then having to make it all myself, and not knowing what I am supposed to taste 😛)
 
Ilvcurst said:
I mean it's not that uncommon right? It's not like Naan or something...you wouldn't know if you haven't had Indian food.

But seriously??? You have never been to an American buffet? They almost always have some corn bread....you need to go to the grocery store, but some corn bread mix and make some...
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Hmmm, but the cornbread they usually have at those places is super sweet. ...which may actually be typical of how most people are eating it, but I prefer the savory stuff. Naan is also delicious.😀
 
Myuu said:
Hmmm, but the cornbread they usually have at those places is super sweet. ...which may actually be typical of how most people are eating it, but I prefer the savory stuff. Naan is also delicious.😀
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Ya I think usually the buffet cornbread isn't very good. The best cornbread I've had was at this BBQ place owned by a couple. The BBQ was the best I've ever had and it's been like a family secret for ever. The wife just told her husband the recipe like after 25 years of marriage....mmmmmmmmmmm their cobblers are good too...many this thread is making me really hungry.
 
bannie22 said:
I have had Naan. I have never had cornbread.
Funny how the world revolves huh.

Looks like Imma have to get some cornbread making-friends.
😛 (Much easier than going to the grocery store, getting cornbread mix, and then having to make it all myself, and not knowing what I am supposed to taste 😛)
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Tell your friends to throw in some diced jalepenos (no seeds unless you want it really hot).
 
Haha, never having had cornbread is a tell-tale sign that one is a yankee.

Also, I think alot of people are too thin skinned about "cultural insensitivity"
 
Ok, I don't know if this really qualifies, but I kind of need some help, so:
I feel lucky to have this problem, BUT:
2 schools have offered me interviews on the same date. Neither one is my first choice, but I don't want to throw away a potential offer. Any advice as to the best course of action without burning a bridge?

P.S.: if this question is addressed in another thread, please guide me? Thanks.
 
healthpsy said:
Ok, I don't know if this really qualifies, but I kind of need some help, so:
I feel lucky to have this problem, BUT:
2 schools have offered me interviews on the same date. Neither one is my first choice, but I don't want to throw away a potential offer. Any advice as to the best course of action without burning a bridge?

P.S.: if this question is addressed in another thread, please guide me? Thanks.
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Not exactly the right thread for this question, but just call one of the schools and reschedule! Most schools allow you to reschedule interviews if you have some other conflict with the date. 👍
 
walked into interviewer's office and he had his small dog sitting on his office desk. i like dogs so asked about a name and if i could pet. interviewer said sure, go ahead. was just about to start the behind-the-ear scratch when i got a whiff of the pup. whew! i must have stopped in mid motion because interviewer said, "oh yeah he really smells and is filthy, i haven't given him a bath in a while." oyyy no kidding! thanks for the heads up :laugh: (only thought my response, not outloud. i probably laughed nervously).
 
RunningDiva said:
walked into interviewer's office and he had his small dog sitting on his office desk. i like dogs so asked about a name and if i could pet. interviewer said sure, go ahead. was just about to start the behind-the-ear scratch when i got a whiff of the pup. whew! i must have stopped in mid motion because interviewer said, "oh yeah he really smells and is filthy, i haven't given him a bath in a while." oyyy no kidding! thanks for the heads up :laugh: (only thought my response, not outloud. i probably laughed nervously).
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did you still pet it? and was it there stinking up the room throughout the whole interview?

That would have thrown me so of balance
 
casillas said:
did you still pet it? and was it there stinking up the room throughout the whole interview?

That would have thrown me so of balance
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i think because i was already mostly there, i gave a light pat. definitely no scratching, didn't want to disturb any inhabitants/dirt.

and yes, dog stayed in office and every so often i got a whiff of rank dog. oh i just remembered, dog started dreaming during the interview and would faintly bark and make other guttural sounds. it was strange but i just tried to roll with it. maybe its a interviewing technique to see how you respond...
 
RunningDiva said:
i think because i was already mostly there, i gave a light pat. definitely no scratching, didn't want to disturb any inhabitants/dirt.

and yes, dog stayed in office and every so often i got a whiff of rank dog. oh i just remembered, dog started dreaming during the interview and would faintly bark and make other guttural sounds. it was strange but i just tried to roll with it. maybe its a interviewing technique to see how you respond...
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lmao that is hilarious, poor doggy! :laugh:
 
BBender716 said:
lmao that is hilarious, poor doggy! :laugh:
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haha, he seemed fairly content. dog ate carrots as a treat. i think i might have commented how healthy that was and it could reduce cavities compared to the milkbones 🙂smack: what am i applying to vet school?!?). all around, the most entertaining interview i've had.
 
One of my interviewers was VERY high energy and enthusiastic. But while we were talking I must have asked her something that REALLY made her eyes light up, and in her exuberant attempt to reply, along with her words out ejected a big ole gob of spit across the table, landing between us. Luckily I maintained eye contact and didn't make it obvious that I noticed she was saying it and spraying it (but we both knew). So she continued talking and kind of nonchalantly put her folded arms over it and wiped it away. Awwwwwwkward.
 
Marcus Brody said:
One of my interviewers was VERY high energy and enthusiastic. But while we were talking I must have asked her something that REALLY made her eyes light up, and in her exuberant attempt to reply, along with her words out ejected a big ole gob of spit across the table, landing between us. Luckily I maintained eye contact and didn't make it obvious that I noticed she was saying it and spraying it (but we both knew). So she continued talking and kind of nonchalantly put her folded arms over it and wiped it away. Awwwwwwkward.
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hahahahahaha love the arm wipe technique, however, it falls short if the person on the receiving end noticed the initial flight.
 
Weeble said:
My very first interview, at Columbia:

Interviewer: So what books are you reading now, and please don't say The World According to Garp.

Me: (thinking, What's with the Irving grudge?) I'm reading the Lord of the Rings just to read it before the movie comes out.

Ouch! I'm taking a year off, but if I was interviewing this year and was asked the same question, I might have talked about an Irving novel because he's one of my favorite authors and I haven't read any fiction in months! Guess I have to find something esoteric to read during this application season 🙂
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chucktown said:
Haha, never having had cornbread is a tell-tale sign that one is a yankee.

Also, I think alot of people are too thin skinned about "cultural insensitivity"
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No idea why you would consider me a yankee.😕
Is that some southern pride I sense? 🙄
 
plauto said:
I drove to my first interview about 3 weeks ago. The school is about 2 hrs from my house and I didn't want to get my suite wrinkled so I just wore sweats in the car and had everything ready to get changed once I was in the parking garage or parking lot. Anyway, once I got there I parked right on the side of a building of the school and starting getting changed. I got my pants off and as I was starting to button my white shirt the school police pulls right next to me. I lower the window, show them the letter for the interview and they kinda were cool about me not having any pants at the very moment. They pull away and I kept dressing. Now I am sweating like a pig and moving all over my bench seat so that my pants wouldn't touch the dirty floor. After struggling a little longer I get out of the car all proud for not having any wrinkles. As I am standing out of my car I wearl my belt, pull my socks up and use one of those rubber toothbrushes that you slip on your fingers since I had had breakfast in the car. Once I was done I went on to my interview. I get into the room and and saw that the interviewer's room was fricking on top of my car. He basically made it clear he saw the whole thing and mentioned something about me having striped underwear or something. The only thing I was able to tell him is that they were new for good luck for the interview.
I have not heard from this school yet.
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While taking a study break I was reading these stories and I forgot I had posted this 2.5 years ago. I thought it'd be interesting to know that, despite the incident, I did get an acceptance from that school about 2 weeks later.
 
bannie22 said:
No idea why you would consider me a yankee.😕
Is that some southern pride I sense? 🙄
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Ha, just a joke, I was bored in the library and thought I could troll some north/south debate
 
Ilvcurst said:
I mean it's not that uncommon right? It's not like Naan or something...you wouldn't know if you haven't had Indian food.

But seriously??? You have never been to an American buffet? They almost always have some corn bread....you need to go to the grocery store, but some corn bread mix and make some...
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Naan bread is soo good! With a lot of calories!

But yeah can't imagine that you haven't had corn bread, try Whole Foods (they sell expensive corn bread by pieces =) )
 
beebee0 said:
Naan bread is soo good! With a lot of calories!

But yeah can't imagine that you haven't had corn bread, try Whole Foods (they sell expensive corn bread by pieces =) )
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OMG. Whole Foods cornbread has crack in it!!!! So delicious! :hijacked:
 
bannie22 said:
No idea why you would consider me a yankee.😕
Is that some southern pride I sense? 🙄
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😕

I think Bannie is Canadian, right? This would explain why you wouldn't get the "considering you a yankee for not having had cornbread" bit.

BTW, Jiffymix = 👍
 
n618ft said:
Prison rules.

230609prison_soccer.jpg
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Blesbok said:
Its the only sport that you don't have to worry about dropping the ball. :eyebrow:
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LOL :laugh:
 
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Yes. Im from the colder North. Not technically so. but for all intensive purposes.

thats why I was clueless. I didnt sense the joke though, thought it was just southern pride😛

So I take back my slightly sarcastic response😉
 
bannie22 said:
Yes. Im from the colder North. Not technically so. but for all intensive purposes.

thats why I was clueless. I didnt sense the joke though, thought it was just southern pride😛

So I take back my slightly sarcastic response😉
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Would anybody like an eggcorn?
 
bannie22 said:
Yes. Im from the colder North. Not technically so. but for all intensive purposes.

thats why I was clueless. I didnt sense the joke though, thought it was just southern pride😛

So I take back my slightly sarcastic response😉
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wow bannie you are going soft on us huh? making amends?
;P
 
Wow... cornbread and eggcorn. I dont know whats eggcorn. Is this a private lesson for me on food sources in parts of North America that I have barely been to???

lol tatstrophy. ure supp to be on my side 😉
 
bannie22 said:
lol tatastrophy. ure supp to be on my side 😉
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lol I don't think I made any indication that I am not.
US has some interesting(in many cases extremely delicious) foodstuffs. I am sure you will enjoy the local cuisine of where-ever you end up at 🙂...but cornbread is definitely up there on the deliciousness list.
 
I had this in the worst interview answers thread - but I think it fits in better here!

At one of my schools I had a tele-interview (or whatever it's called) -- I was in a large conference room, where the doctor from a different campus was interviewing me while displayed on the large screen. Problem: the camera wasn't above the screen! It was to the corner of the screen, so to make it appear I was looking at the interviewer I actually had to look away from the interviewer!! Soooo awkward because I couldn't gauge her reaction. Oh and I could see myself on the screen as well - stumbling in the awkward situation, so that was fun too. I wonder if the awkward set up was part of how I dealt with it?

One other interview moment I did enjoy:
(as I walk in we somehow start off by discussing cookies and milk, and chocolate, which leads to a discussion of the great wall of chocolate cake at PF Changs which you must have with milk)
Interviewer: So why aren't you stressed right now?
Me: Well if I was stressed, I wouldn't be accurately representing who I am as a person now would I?
Interviewer: It's like the catcher at the world series last night! (gets up and proceeds to describe/ act out how this was the most important moment of the game ever, and the guy was so calm)

That was def random 🙄
 
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MDtobe31311 said:
I had this in the worst interview answers thread - but I think it fits in better here!

At one of my schools I had a tele-interview (or whatever it's called) -- I was in a large conference room, where the doctor from a different campus was interviewing me while displayed on the large screen. Problem: the camera wasn't above the screen! It was to the corner of the screen, so to make it appear I was looking at the interviewer I actually had to look away from the interviewer!! Soooo awkward because I couldn't gauge her reaction. Oh and I could see myself on the screen as well - stumbling in the awkward situation, so that was fun too. I wonder if the awkward set up was part of how I dealt with it?

One moment I did enjoy:
(as I walk in we somehow start off by discussing cookies and milk, and chocolate, which leads to a discussion of the great wall of chocolate cake at PF Changs which you must have with milk)
Interviewer: So why aren't you stressed right now?
Me: Well if I was stressed, I wouldn't be accurately representing who I am as a person now would I?
Interviewer: It's like the catcher at the world series last night! (gets up and proceeds to describe/ act out how this was the most important moment of the game ever, and the guy was so calm)

That was def random 🙄
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That actually sounds kinda cute.
 
bannie22 said:
Yes. Im from the colder North. Not technically so. but for all intensive purposes.

thats why I was clueless. I didnt sense the joke though, thought it was just southern pride😛

So I take back my slightly sarcastic response😉
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I'm not usually "that guy" and it was hinted at early, but as more of a PSA rather than a guffaw, just wanted to make sure that it's known that it's technically "for all intents and purposes." One of my pet peeves. I know I know, definitely a stupid thing. 🙄
 
bannie22 said:
I have had Naan. I have never had cornbread.
Funny how the world revolves huh.

Looks like Imma have to get some cornbread making-friends.
😛 (Much easier than going to the grocery store, getting cornbread mix, and then having to make it all myself, and not knowing what I am supposed to taste 😛)
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It's really not hard. You buy Jiffy cornbread mix (in the baking section). It costs like $.50 and is pretty much foolproof. I use it to make cornbread muffins.
 
FuturaDocta said:
That actually sounds kinda cute.
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It was ^_^

Funniest thing was that both of those interviews were at the same school! First = extremely awkward, second = random/ cute. I'm hoping the second interviewer has more pull at the school than the first one!
 
chucktown said:
Haha, never having had cornbread is a tell-tale sign that one is a yankee.

Also, I think alot of people are too thin skinned about "cultural insensitivity"
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Now hold on there! I'm a Yankee and I sure as hell, know and love cornbread!

Cornbread is authentic American. How can anyone be in the States and not have it?
 
I absolutely love cornbread, and I'm pretty Yankee. lol
 
I had never heard of corn bread until my sophomore/junior year of undergrad, and never had any until after I graduated!😱 (Grew up in Maine, went to school in Mass)
 
One of my interviewers said, "How am I going to prove to the committee that you aren't some kind of hippie?" (lots of travel, India, lots of yoga, music..)

I was a little taken aback for a second and said, "I'm not really sure that will be possible."

Then he asked me how my friends would describe me, and I told him they would all say I'm some kind of hippie. It was a fun interview but he asked a lot of deep, probing questions so I had to think a lot and consider my responses carefully...

I signed my thank you note "insert name here, hippy chick"
 
Interviewer: What type of artistic endeavors are you interested in? Do you play an instrument?
Ktl: No, no instrument, but I do love to get creative in the kitchen.. baking, cooking, blah, blah, blah..
Interviewer: Oh I love to cook, as you can tell (he's a large guy and proceeds to rub his belly)
Ktl: Very cool (um)
Interviewer: Just the other day, my wife brought home a duck in a plastic bag that someone had shot. Have you ever cooked a duck before?
Ktl: No..
Interviewer: Well first you've got to pluck it and then get rid of the down.. You hold the duck by the neck and dip it into a bucket with hot water and paraffin. Then take it out and put it in a bucket of cold water, pull off the paraffin and the down comes with it.
Ktl: Oh, interesting.
Interviewer: Next you've got to get rid of the gaminess. You can stuff it with sauerkraut or apple or lemon....
Ktl: (wtf?)
He proceeded to go on and on about the different types of duck you can eat.. how the Chinese prepare duck...
It was extremely odd.
 
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