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QTLyss said:
No there is nothing wrong with pearls. I think they are very classy. I have no clue what that question was about
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You might have a lawsuit if he asked about ....other pieces of jewelery made of pearls....
 
I manage to leave my purse behind in either interview rooms or conference rooms. I've done this for 2 different schools. It always results in me scurrying around schools I don't know, while trying to not be seen by any interviewers, admissions people, or other VIPs. I didn't want them to think I was forgetful!
 
Lew said:
I manage to leave my purse behind in either interview rooms or conference rooms. I've done this for 2 different schools. It always results in me scurrying around schools I don't know, while trying to not be seen by any interviewers, admissions people, or other VIPs. I didn't want them to think I was forgetful!
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I lost my phone in the admissions office in one school, and they had to help me find my phone 😛 Still got accepted...so I guess it's no big deal.
 
breeak said:
Priceless. Maybe you subconsciously associate pregnancy with being imprisoned. 😉
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Entirely possible, haha. However, a more likely scenario is that I was blowing my nose when he asked the question. I was feeling SO. SICK. during that interview I could barely remember what I had just said myself.
 
So one of my interviewers asked me a question, and it led to me talking about being organized.

Me: Yeah, I always have to have my school stuff really organized. You should see my binders, everything is color coded and in a specific place so I always know where everything is.

Interviewer: Oh, so would you say you're OCD?

Me: uhhh, :scared: no....*then I went on about how I don't think I'm OCD, but she made me so nervous, I don't think I explained it very well*

I'm really not OCD, I'm just organized about certain things. My room is a complete mess, but my school stuff is organized.

Oh well, they said I'd hear around the holidays, so I'll find out then if it affected me, haha. 😳
 
pianola said:
***I must have heard "in prison" instead of "pregnant" in the initial scenario. Whoops!
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Okay. I like reading this thread and the "bizarre interview moments" thread, because you know they're going to be good for some laughs. But I have to say, this may be the funniest thing I've read in either of the threads. Reading it over again from the beginning just makes it even funnier. That is hilarious!
 
silverhorse84 said:
So one of my interviewers asked me a question, and it led to me talking about being organized.

Me: Yeah, I always have to have my school stuff really organized. You should see my binders, everything is color coded and in a specific place so I always know where everything is.

Interviewer: Oh, so would you say you're OCD?

Me: uhhh, :scared: no....*then I went on about how I don't think I'm OCD, but she made me so nervous, I don't think I explained it very well*

I'm really not OCD, I'm just organized about certain things. My room is a complete mess, but my school stuff is organized.

Oh well, they said I'd hear around the holidays, so I'll find out then if it affected me, haha. 😳
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WOW... That is the reason I am afraid of being interviewed by psychiatrists... I wonder what kinds of things they will find wrong with me.
 
silverhorse84 said:
So one of my interviewers asked me a question, and it led to me talking about being organized.

Me: Yeah, I always have to have my school stuff really organized. You should see my binders, everything is color coded and in a specific place so I always know where everything is.

Interviewer: Oh, so would you say you're OCD?

Me: uhhh, :scared: no....*then I went on about how I don't think I'm OCD, but she made me so nervous, I don't think I explained it very well*

I'm really not OCD, I'm just organized about certain things. My room is a complete mess, but my school stuff is organized.

Oh well, they said I'd hear around the holidays, so I'll find out then if it affected me, haha. 😳
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I actually think mild ocd could be considered a plus, especially depending on how it manifests. Besides, psychiatrists like to be inscrutable, they can't help themselves. I bet you're alright. 🙂
 
breeak said:
I actually think mild ocd could be considered a plus, especially depending on how it manifests. Besides, psychiatrists like to be inscrutable, they can't help themselves. I bet you're alright. 🙂
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Haha, I'm actually not too worried. The other interview that day went well, and he outranks her :meanie:. She was actually not a psychiatrist, she was in internal medicine. She may have just been joking, but the manner in which she said it made me nervous so I kind of stumbled over the answer. 🙄
 
Interviewer: Do you think the candidates educational background is an important factor when deciding who to vote for?

Me: Yes...then I went on to say some short explanation blah blah blah

Interviewer: Good, well then what do you know about the candidates education backgrounds?

Me: silence...busted...I had no idea
 
My first interviewer of my first interview was right away, first thing in the day. I was super nervous. He asked me this complicated hypothetical about being the head of the hospital's committee for ____ and two people need treatment, but only one can get... how do you make the choice?

I sat there for a minute and said something like, "Shoot, that's a tough call... So there isn't like an ambulance service to ship them to a different hospital?"

I fumbled through the rest of it, but apperently it worked b/c I got my acceptance in the mail yesterday.
 
lildoc said:
Interviewer: Do you think the candidates educational background is an important factor when deciding who to vote for?

Me: Yes...then I went on to say some short explanation blah blah blah

Interviewer: Good, well then what do you know about the candidates education backgrounds?

Me: silence...busted...I had no idea
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Oh man, they set you up for that one! :laugh:
It would have been the jackpot if you knew though.
 
I had this one interviewer ask me about what I know about the 2 candidates healthcare programs:
I: So what do you know/think about the healthcare polies of the 2 candidates n which one is better?
(I had no clue..or very lil idea of either one's policies, and I didnt know which one the I'er liked)
Me:Well, uh *nervous laugh*, those candidates are not even clear about anything these days, their policies are not even clear or put out in the open...*tehehe..hmm ..uh ya..*..but we all know that something has to change in the system
I: Ya, i know totally, its hard to even tell what they really stand for..and...(he goes on to ramble for like 10 mins on his own opinion of the candidates policies lol)
I was like sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
 
lildoc said:
Interviewer: Do you think the candidates educational background is an important factor when deciding who to vote for?

Me: Yes...then I went on to say some short explanation blah blah blah

Interviewer: Good, well then what do you know about the candidates education backgrounds?

Me: silence...busted...I had no idea
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if memory serves me right,

obama columbia undergrad followed by harvard law school

mccain west point? or some sort of naval academy
 
GloryField said:
if memory serves me right,

obama columbia undergrad followed by harvard law school

mccain west point? or some sort of naval academy
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Yep. Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983, then went on to get his law degree from Harvard in 1991.

John McCain graduated FIFTH FROM THE BOTTOM of his class from the US Naval Academy in 1958. To his credit though, he doesn't try to hide, deny, or make excuses for it. It is what it is, and he owns up to it.
 
pianola said:
OK, so against my better judgment, I'll be posting again in this thread:

Interviewer: Suppose that you're a doctor and you have just told one of your patients (a woman) that she has [insert terminal illness here]. She has a daughter who has been in prison for seven months and the patient begs you to guarantee her that she will be alive to see her daughter's baby born.

Me: Wow that's a complicated scenario. I would promise to do everything in my power to help her, but I probably couldn't guarantee anything...[blabs for a little bit]...maybe I could ask about prison visits?

Interviewer: 😕😕😕 Gives me a look that says "Are-you-all-right-in-the-head?"

Me: [embarassed] Well, how long did you say she was in prison for?

Interviewer:...I didn't.

Me: I mean, the daughter. How long is she in prison for?

Interviewer:...no one's in prison.

Me: Oh. Ok. [Long, deafening pause] Wonder where I got "in prison" from.

Interviewer:...Thinking, "no idea, sport" Maybe I should read the scenario over again...

Me: Oh no! no! I think I understand now...

***I must have heard "in prison" instead of "pregnant" in the initial scenario. Whoops!

Result: No verdict as of yet.
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almost peed my pants from this one. love this thread! <333 😍

and for books, i would say "Twilight," although no interviewers have asked me that one yet. i did end up explaining twilight to one of my professors though...that was interesting...
 
Sarg's kid said:
My first interviewer of my first interview was right away, first thing in the day. I was super nervous. He asked me this complicated hypothetical about being the head of the hospital's committee for ____ and two people need treatment, but only one can get... how do you make the choice?

I sat there for a minute and said something like, "Shoot, that's a tough call... So there isn't like an ambulance service to ship them to a different hospital?"

I fumbled through the rest of it, but apperently it worked b/c I got my acceptance in the mail yesterday.
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I like it.

most of those scenarios are bunk b/c the situations where resources are so limited that you have to pick who lives and dies are essentially limited to organ transplantation and there are some pretty strict guidelines to determine the priority of patients on those lists so it's rarely a single person making the decision.

Your "can't we ship 'em to a different hospital?" response is probably the closest thing to a right answer there is to that... I consider those BS questions traps. They want you to choose who lives or dies when you really shouldn't be valuing one life over the other.
 
This thread is hilarious!!!!!! I looooooove it :laugh::laugh:
 
This happened at my interview about a month ago. Kind of threw me off.

Interviewer- (sneeze)

Me- (nothing just sat there)

Interviewer - Thanks for saying God Bless You. Didn't you say that you were a caring person.

Me - Uh... Sorry, I forgot.

Waitlisted
 
helt4257 said:
This happened at my interview about a month ago. Kind of threw me off.

Interviewer- (sneeze)

Me- (nothing just sat there)

Interviewer - Thanks for saying God Bless You. Didn't you say that you were a caring person.

Me - Uh... Sorry, I forgot.

Waitlisted
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Haha, all of these are great.

Interviewer - So I see you have virtually no research experience.

Me - (I don't know how this happened, maybe I breathed funny or lost my train of thought, but I answered with a loud, long "NO" followed by a loud, short "MAM" *awkward*)

She made me feel better by mentioning she had no research experience before medicine either.
 
qmcat said:
another time, we were in the waiting room for interviews (at the end of the day, so when you finish, you just go home). one of the guys finished his interview and was leaving going to the elevator. then the faculty interviewer yelled out like "wait, you forgot your leather binder". and the guy rushed out of the elevator... but right when he stepped out, the elevator door closed and he got the leg of his pants stuck between the elevator doors.

and next thing you hear, he screams the F word really loud.

i wonder if he will get in :/
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hahahahahahahahahahaha:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
 
This was for a research position:

Interviewer: "My team does a lot of research on erectile dysfunction...."
Me: *smirk*

I swear, I'm not one of those people....most of the time.
 
Brydmd said:
This was for a research position:

Interviewer: "My team does a lot of research on erectile dysfunction...."
Me: *smirk*

I swear, I'm not one of those people....most of the time.
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After taking the better part of a week to read this whole thread from top to bottom, I will say that the "who, me?" post from the first page is still the funniest thing I have read in a long time.

I haven't had any med school interviews yet (first one is Thursday so we'll see if I can't contribute to this thread then 🙂) but the previous poster reminded me of an experience I had when I was interviewing for an internship at a research lab at my undergrad during freshman year. This was a lab studying the mating habits of female mice who had their ovaries removed, so their estrogen levels were much lower than normal. My friend and I were getting a tour at the same time as the PI was explaining the study to us. We were supposed to code the behaviors as they occurred (I forget what they were specifically, but there were different ones, like grooming, ignore, hostile action, mounting, etc.)

As soon as he said "mounting," I started giggling and internally fighting my urge to laugh while my friend was kicking me because I was causing her to laugh as well. Then he turned around and saw me biting the inside of my cheek to keep from laughing and he said "I guess it is pretty funny, right?" I wound up getting the internship anyway though 😀
 
interviewer: So what's the best medical school in the country?
me: uhhhhh....*squirming* ummm....according to news ratings?
interviewer: No, no. What do YOU think the best medical school is?
me: (never thought about it)...Uh, Hopkins?
interviewer: Nope.
me: School X?
interviewer: No...the first school you get into! (laughs heartily)
me: *visibly relieved* laughed nervously
 
Crb717 said:
interviewer: So what's the best medical school in the country?
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That is possibly the worst question I have ever heard in my entire life. I mean, that is really. bad.
 
Depakote said:
well clearly you haven't heard of Stewart University, the #1 leader in US Medical Education. Failing to demonstrate this knowledge when asked such a simple factual question = instant rejection.
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Yeeeaaaahhhhhhh👍
 
pianola said:
OK, so against my better judgment, I'll be posting again in this thread:

Interviewer: Suppose that you're a doctor and you have just told one of your patients (a woman) that she has [insert terminal illness here]. She has a daughter who has been in prison for seven months and the patient begs you to guarantee her that she will be alive to see her daughter's baby born.

Me: Wow that's a complicated scenario. I would promise to do everything in my power to help her, but I probably couldn't guarantee anything...[blabs for a little bit]...maybe I could ask about prison visits?

Interviewer: 😕😕😕 Gives me a look that says "Are-you-all-right-in-the-head?"

Me: [embarassed] Well, how long did you say she was in prison for?

Interviewer:...I didn't.

Me: I mean, the daughter. How long is she in prison for?

Interviewer:...no one's in prison.

Me: Oh. Ok. [Long, deafening pause] Wonder where I got "in prison" from.

Interviewer:...Thinking, "no idea, sport" Maybe I should read the scenario over again...

Me: Oh no! no! I think I understand now...

***I must have heard "in prison" instead of "pregnant" in the initial scenario. Whoops!

Result: No verdict as of yet.
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No offense pianola, but this is the worst, and also most hilarious interview answer given! It should win a prize!
 
tianac2 said:
Yep. Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983, then went on to get his law degree from Harvard in 1991.

John McCain graduated FIFTH FROM THE BOTTOM of his class from the US Naval Academy in 1958. To his credit though, he doesn't try to hide, deny, or make excuses for it. It is what it is, and he owns up to it.
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And wasn't Barack Obama the first African American elected President of the Harvard Law Review? Just sayin . . . 🙂

Seriously though, I am glad I am not applying til next year . . . even though I have plenty of opinions about the candidates, I would NOT like to be put on the spot and talk to interviewers about it. Yikes. It's like a lose-lose situation. You either be vague so as not to offend, and sound like you don't know anything- or you voice your opinion and of course your interviewer probably has the opposite opinion . . . :scared: I know the point is just to HAVE an opinion that you can back up, but I'd still worry that if an interviewer personally disagrees with you, their bias may subconciously affect them even if they are trying to be objective.
 
While my response is not nearly as funny as other posts here... I still smacked my head with my fist after leaving the interviewers room.

Interviewer: So if you could have dinner with anyone living or dead who would it be?

Me: (Thinking for about 5-10seconds)...umm... Richard Nixon?

I spent the next 5 minutes explaning why he would be interesting to have dinner with. At first I think my interviewer was about to write me a rejection on the spot...but after stumbling around trying to explain how I don't necessarily agree with his politics and how I find him interesting as a human, I think I only slightly damaged my chances of getting a fat acceptance...

Ohhhh well....guess I will find out soon
 
Nomemory said:
Him: So why medicine?
Me: Well the only other thing I'd want to do is teach and I don't know that I'd be a remarkable teacher but I'm certain I could be a great doctor.
Him: So why wouldn't you be a remarkable teacher?
Me: sweat and silence (oh my GOD!!! why did i just SAY that?!)
Him: Being a doctor is a lot like teaching.
Me: More sweat and more silence (great, I just told this guy I'd be a crappy doctor)

Next interviewer for the day:
Him: How would you go about changing a patient's self-destructive behaviors?
Me: (like a ranting lunatic) Well I'd just lay it on the line! (pounds desk with fist)
Him: Do you think that would work?
Me: *slaps forhead* No! But I couldn't think of anything else to say.
Him: You're right. It wouldn't.

Later that interview:
Me: I hate doctors.

Who DOES that?!!!!!? I seriously couldn't have done worse at this interview if I'd taken off all my clothes, farted and walked out. 😱
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I read this a year ago, and its still freakin hilarious. best post ever!🙂
 
funkydrmonkey said:
No offense pianola, but this is the worst, and also most hilarious interview answer given! It should win a prize!
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Man. And I'm still hoping for acceptance to this school. I hope the otherwise-good answers I gave will make up for that stupid blunder 😳.

Yeah, I just got ALL RED when he was like "No one's in prison." I hope he doesn't think I'm some sort of criminally-obsessed freak-of-nature. Whoopsy.
 
sankondbest said:
While my response is not nearly as funny as other posts here... I still smacked my head with my fist after leaving the interviewers room.

Interviewer: So if you could have dinner with anyone living or dead who would it be?

Me: (Thinking for about 5-10seconds)...umm... Richard Nixon?
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on my interview day, one of the interviewers was asking this question, although the person had to be dead. i was talking to one of the kids who interviewed in the morning who mentioned this question and i immediately freaked out because i had no idea what i would say if asked, figuring i would say someone and then be informed that the person was alive. Thankfully, i wasn't asked this and managed to have a good interview day.
sorry i don't have anything more creative 😎
 
sankondbest said:
While my response is not nearly as funny as other posts here... I still smacked my head with my fist after leaving the interviewers room.

Interviewer: So if you could have dinner with anyone living or dead who would it be?

Me: (Thinking for about 5-10seconds)...umm... Richard Nixon?

I spent the next 5 minutes explaning why he would be interesting to have dinner with. At first I think my interviewer was about to write me a rejection on the spot...but after stumbling around trying to explain how I don't necessarily agree with his politics and how I find him interesting as a human, I think I only slightly damaged my chances of getting a fat acceptance...

Ohhhh well....guess I will find out soon
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I was asked this and I said Jesus Christ. My interviewer looked a little puzzled, and then I was like "Well, I mean, he could clear up so many things...the whole son of God thing for one...and if he says that he IS the son of God then that just opens a whole other line of questioning..."

I stand by my answer, although I wish my interviewer hadn't frowned quite so much.
 
^ Heh, LET, I read it funny and mentally I heard you saying "Jesus Christ!" in response. I got an e-kick out of that.
 
Lady Marid said:
Yes, I normally don't swallow gum because my mom told me I would get appendicitis if I did that when I was a kid. 😉 But I wasn't about to take it out right in front of my interviewer, so I swallowed that sucker, lol!
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I wouldn't worry about that...try chewing the same piece of gum for 6-8 hours sometime. The combination of heat and salivary amylase will liquefy it in your mouth, so you will almost definitely digest it.
 
ButImLETired said:
I was asked this and I said Jesus Christ. My interviewer looked a little puzzled, and then I was like "Well, I mean, he could clear up so many things...the whole son of God thing for one...and if he says that he IS the son of God then that just opens a whole other line of questioning..."

I stand by my answer, although I wish my interviewer hadn't frowned quite so much.
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Beautiful answer LET. You know that is the same answer I would have given!
 
Ok, it might not of been that bad after reading some of the answers here, but here's mine:

Interviewer: So, we've talked about your [x] activity, tell me another activity where you demonstrated service.

Me: Talked for a few minutes about [y] activity.

Interviewer: Great! Any other service activities.

Me: Talked about [x] activity again 🙁

I was nervous, oh well.
 
Interviewer: Give me an example of a time when you stepped outside of your comfort zone.

(I saw an opening for humor and I took it.)

Me: Once, on a dare, I went to my local YMCA and took a beginner Yoga class. There were 25 women and 5 men (I am a dude). The best part about the experience is that the teacher thought I was "very flexible in the hips".

Interviewer: I guess I was looking for something a little more, um, challenging?

(Humor bombed)

Me: Oh ok. That was a joke sort of. I mean I really actually did that but that is not what I would say as a serious answer to your question. Seriously, I once had to....(insert serious answer).

Ugh. I would like to see my interviewer walk into a Yoga class. It was intimidating and I guarantee he would suck big time.
 
liquid8r said:
Interviewer: Give me an example of a time when you stepped outside of your comfort zone.

(I saw an opening for humor and I took it.)

Me: Once, on a dare, I went to my local YMCA and took a beginner Yoga class. There were 25 women and 5 men (I am a dude). The best part about the experience is that the teacher thought I was "very flexible in the hips".

Interviewer: I guess I was looking for something a little more, um, challenging?

(Humor bombed)

Me: Oh ok. That was a joke sort of. I mean I really actually did that but that is not what I would say as a serious answer to your question. Seriously, I once had to....(insert serious answer).

Ugh. I would like to see my interviewer walk into a Yoga class. It was intimidating and I guarantee he would suck big time.
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I dunno about your story but your avatar=👍👍👍
 
Yeah, I can see why the humor bombed. As with most of the answers in this thread, I have no idea where it came from.
 
liquid8r said:
I have no idea where it came from.
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Hey, you know what? The yoga scenario actually answered the question. I didn't think it was *such* a bad answer.





Besides, you didn't introduce the word "prison" into the conversation unnecessarily. :smack:
 
This question came out of nowhere.


Interviewer: 'Do you have a girlfriend?'.

Me: ' Not currently, no.'

Interviewer: 'Why do you think that is?'

Me: '.............I don't know.'
 
chemnerd89 said:
Interviewer: 'Do you have a girlfriend?'.

Me: ' Not currently, no.'

Interviewer: 'Why do you think that is?'

Me: '.............I don't know.'
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Wow, yeah that IS the worst interview answer in the history of interviews. C'mon man, why don't you have a girlfriend? What's wrong with you, anyway?






...Just teasing 😉

Sounds like the interviewer was a little out of line.
 
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