Worst/Funniest Interview Experiences

[SpecterGT260]

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What do they expect us to say? I was doing the same thing as a freshman.

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I think the point is to not be so candid.

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The best bet in these questions is to try to spin a positive. Id say you didnt take the schooling as seriously and werent being as responsible with your time. Spending time SOCIALIZING 🙂rolleyes🙂, and then flip it to highlight how you did better later on. Maybe even sprinkle in a dash of life lesson

 

[Laurlaur]

So this was not so much a bad answer, but still an awkward moment. I got to the interview site somewhat early, and I started walking toward the building that they told us the interviews would be in. On my way in, a lady asked if I was there for interviews and I said yes. She introduced herself as an M3 and led me into another building and took me and another couple of students into a lecture hall. Another lady in there asked our names and tried to find our folders. One guy's folder was there but another guy's and mine weren't. The lady asked if we had confirmed our dates, which we both had, and then she went off to try to figure out what was going on. While she was gone, we were talking to the student about how she was about to start her rotations. She started talking about how she was deciding which specialty she wanted to do, then mentioned how she really didn't want to do pediatric dentistry. The one guy and I looked at each other and then asked if these were the dentistry school interviews. Yes they were. Oops. We booked it to the other building and made it to our medical school interviews with plenty of time 🙂

 

[SpecterGT260]

So this was not so much a bad answer, but still an awkward moment. I got to the interview site somewhat early, and I started walking toward the building that they told us the interviews would be in. On my way in, a lady asked if I was there for interviews and I said yes. She introduced herself as an M3 and led me into another building and took me and another couple of students into a lecture hall. Another lady in there asked our names and tried to find our folders. One guy's folder was there but another guy's and mine weren't. The lady asked if we had confirmed our dates, which we both had, and then she went off to try to figure out what was going on. While she was gone, we were talking to the student about how she was about to start her rotations. She started talking about how she was deciding which specialty she wanted to do, then mentioned how she really didn't want to do pediatric dentistry. The one guy and I looked at each other and then asked if these were the dentistry school interviews. Yes they were. Oops. We booked it to the other building and made it to our medical school interviews with plenty of time 🙂

nice
Good thing you made it.

 

[kami333]

Interviewer: Have you failed at anything before?

Me: ... my entire undergraduate education

 

[phikapdoctor]

Interviewer: Have you failed at anything before?

Me: ... my entire undergraduate education

Obviously not if you are at an ii.


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[FSU2013]

My wife interviewed for a job recently and was asked "what is your biggest fault?" She gave some generic answer. Her new boss said: "That's a lot better than the last person. The last person said 'my friends would say I drink too much.' " Thought that wasn't a great answer, lol.

 

[augeremt]

My contribution:

Interviewer: What will you do if you don't get in this cycle?
Me: Try again. I'll probably get a clinical research position and go from there.
Interviewer: Do you know in what field?
Me (without skipping a beat): No.

Awkward silence ensued.

I eventually came up with something decently good, but my initial answer made it seem like I was just into checking the boxes to get accepted. Oops.

 

[member77077]

For a med school interview:

I: How should we fix the health care system
me: (Opening mouth without thinking) If I knew how to fix it, we wouldn't have a problem!
I: shocked look
me: but I think that blah, blah, blah

result: waitlisted (But overall, it was just an overall off day for me)

 

[unhappytnt]

Interviewer: Tell me about a time where you had to use your influence to get something you want
Me: Ummm... (thinks for a few seconds) I once told my roommate to turn down his music and he did.

Outcome: Accepted 😎

 

[Romz]

Wasn't a Med School interview, but rather for a research opportunity:


Interviewer: What do you usually do with friends during your free time?
Me: Well, I go grab a coffee and just relax at bars.
Interviewer:

Result: Waitlisted

The worst part is that I don't usually do that. At most i've done it twice and I made myself look like a complete bum/drunk. After I had been accepted, I was explicitly told to be vague with such questions asking about my private life and if the interviewer was persistent, to mention an activity in which my friends and I do demonstrating a love of science.

No effing clue what science related activity a group of friends would engage in during their free time, but I learned my lesson on this one...

 

[235009]

Wasn't a Med School interview, but rather for a research opportunity:


Interviewer: What do you usually do with friends during your free time?
Me: Well, I go grab a coffee and just relax at bars.
Interviewer:

Result: Waitlisted

The worst part is that I don't usually do that. At most i've done it twice and I made myself look like a complete bum/drunk. After I had been accepted, I was explicitly told to be vague with such questions asking about my private life and if the interviewer was persistent, to mention an activity in which my friends and I do demonstrating a love of science.

No effing clue what science related activity a group of friends would engage in during their free time, but I learned my lesson on this one...

While your answer was definitely not a good one the advice you got is equally bad, particularly for med school interviews and beyond. When med school interviewers (and most other interviewers) ask this question they want to make sure you're a human being who has interests outside of science and medicine. Definitely don't talk about alcohol or drugs but a genuine PG rated interest is definitely preferable to trying to tell them what you think they want to hear like saying you do/discuss/think about science in your free time. At the same time don't make it seem like you are a friendless loner who noone would want to be around. So even if you do spend hours online trolling message boards keep that to yourself.

 

[Procyon]

Interviewer: Tell me about a time where you had to use your influence to get something you want
Me: Ummm... (thinks for a few seconds) I once told my roommate to turn down his music and he did.

Outcome: Accepted 😎

Hahaha, that's a pretty weird question all around. I know I'm going to get some kind of weird curve balls at my next interview.

 

[Romz]

While your answer was definitely not a good one the advice you got is equally bad, particularly for med school interviews and beyond. When med school interviewers (and most other interviewers) ask this question they want to make sure you're a human being who has interests outside of science and medicine. Definitely don't talk about alcohol or drugs but a genuine PG rated interest is definitely preferable to trying to tell them what you think they want to hear like saying you do/discuss/think about science in your free time. At the same time don't make it seem like you are a friendless loner who noone would want to be around. So even if you do spend hours online trolling message boards keep that to yourself.

Thanks for the advice & I agree. Yeah I realized it too late. The thing that threw me off was "with friends"; I didn't expect to be asked that and my mind shot back to the most recent thing i had done. I had predicted alone in my free time which would have included spending quality time with my friends and family, however.

The interviewer had done his PhD in Ecology and I brought up I would be volunteering in an environmental restoration project which scored me some points. Pretty sure I would have been flat out rejected if I didn't manage to save my butt somehow.

 

[SpecterGT260]

Wasn't a Med School interview, but rather for a research opportunity:


Interviewer: What do you usually do with friends during your free time?
Me: Well, I go grab a coffee and just relax at bars.
Interviewer:

Result: Waitlisted

The worst part is that I don't usually do that. At most i've done it twice and I made myself look like a complete bum/drunk. After I had been accepted, I was explicitly told to be vague with such questions asking about my private life and if the interviewer was persistent, to mention an activity in which my friends and I do demonstrating a love of science.

No effing clue what science related activity a group of friends would engage in during their free time, but I learned my lesson on this one...

love of science? That may hurt you too. Adcoms are too used to seeing pre-meds at interviews who eat, breathe, and sleep pre-med science. They want PEOPLE. I agree you should be vague, but talk about doing things socially. Do you play an instrument? hiking? Biking? Chess club? Are you a lvl 80 Master wizard dwarf and guild master of your local competitive LARP league? Anything is better than saying "I like beer", but I have heard from interviewers that they arent interested in accepting pure science nerds devoid of personality or other passions. You could also tie in things that are semi-service oriented.

 

[Romz]

love of science? That may hurt you too. Adcoms are too used to seeing pre-meds at interviews who eat, breathe, and sleep pre-med science. They want PEOPLE. I agree you should be vague, but talk about doing things socially. Do you play an instrument? hiking? Biking? Chess club? Are you a lvl 80 Master wizard dwarf and guild master of your local competitive LARP league? Anything is better than saying "I like beer", but I have heard from interviewers that they arent interested in accepting pure science nerds devoid of personality or other passions. You could also tie in things that are semi-service oriented.

Exactly. Which is why I ignorantly thought that my answer would have been a refreshing one to hear. I was so flushed after I saw the interviewer's face... I got the position in the end so maybe it was just a much needed lesson on interview skills 👍 (which by the way I still have A LOT to learn and practice on)

 

[MedPR]

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The best bet in these questions is to try to spin a positive. Id say you didnt take the schooling as seriously and werent being as responsible with your time. Spending time SOCIALIZING 🙂rolleyes🙂, and then flip it to highlight how you did better later on. Maybe even sprinkle in a dash of life lesson

That's how I've answered it at my two open file interviews. We'll see how that turns out.

Interviewer: So what will you do if you don't get in this year?
Me: Reapply. Continue working/volunteering and further address my GPA (the weakest part of my app).
Interviewer: Yea, everything besides your first two years of undergrad looks good...
Me: (Continued talking.. don't know why, but I couldn't stop). Yea I decided that If I don't get in after 4 tries I'll try to become a teacher (completely forgetting that I've already been accepted). By the time I'm that age I feel like I will need to find a career and start contributing to my family. (WTF? I don't have any kids and I'm not married.)

 

[phikapdoctor]

That's how I've answered it at my two open file interviews. We'll see how that turns out.

Interviewer: So what will you do if you don't get in this year?
Me: Reapply. Continue working/volunteering and further address my GPA (the weakest part of my app).
Interviewer: Yea, everything besides your first two years of undergrad looks good...
Me: (Continued talking.. don't know why, but I couldn't stop). Yea I decided that If I don't get in after 4 tries I'll try to become a teacher (completely forgetting that I've already been accepted). By the time I'm that age I feel like I will need to find a career and start contributing to my family. (WTF? I don't have any kids and I'm not married.)

Lol. You sir have the worst luck it seems like.


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[Dmr6186]

That's how I've answered it at my two open file interviews. We'll see how that turns out.

Interviewer: So what will you do if you don't get in this year?
Me: Reapply. Continue working/volunteering and further address my GPA (the weakest part of my app).
Interviewer: Yea, everything besides your first two years of undergrad looks good...
Me: (Continued talking.. don't know why, but I couldn't stop). Yea I decided that If I don't get in after 4 tries I'll try to become a teacher (completely forgetting that I've already been accepted). By the time I'm that age I feel like I will need to find a career and start contributing to my family. (WTF? I don't have any kids and I'm not married.)

Lol short and sweet is the way I like to give my answers. Leaves no room for questioning and there's no way of botching it up by rambling on.

 

[Romz]

That's how I've answered it at my two open file interviews. We'll see how that turns out.

Interviewer: So what will you do if you don't get in this year?
Me: Reapply. Continue working/volunteering and further address my GPA (the weakest part of my app).
Interviewer: Yea, everything besides your first two years of undergrad looks good...
Me: (Continued talking.. don't know why, but I couldn't stop). Yea I decided that If I don't get in after 4 tries I'll try to become a teacher (completely forgetting that I've already been accepted). By the time I'm that age I feel like I will need to find a career and start contributing to my family. (WTF? I don't have any kids and I'm not married.)

Lmfao

 

[DrHa]

Interviewer: "If you could have lunch and talk to anyone alive or dead, who would it be?"
Me: *Crap*......silence......."Ummmmmm.... one of the founding fathers...."

I didn't even pick a person!!!! So really I didn't even really answer the question, and it was kind of a lame answer, not because it wouldn't be cool to talk to one of the founding fathers but because I couldn't explain what I would want to ask them. It was a clsguy fail. The worst thing was that several months before my interview at this school I had heard of someone else getting asked the same question! I was still unprepared for it. *Hits myself in forehead with hard object*

I got this question at two of mine, but the second time I was asked for three people. After choosing one I was a deer in head lights.
Oh and I also said a president, to which they asked which one? And I answered: Can't choose one right now.....

 

[SpecterGT260]

Interviewer: "If you could have lunch and talk to anyone alive or dead, who would it be?"
Me: *Crap*......silence......."Ummmmmm.... one of the founding fathers...."

I didn't even pick a person!!!! So really I didn't even really answer the question, and it was kind of a lame answer, not because it wouldn't be cool to talk to one of the founding fathers but because I couldn't explain what I would want to ask them. It was a clsguy fail. The worst thing was that several months before my interview at this school I had heard of someone else getting asked the same question! I was still unprepared for it. *Hits myself in forehead with hard object*

If anyone else gets asked this, make sure you say "Oh definitely someone alive! Much better conversation" 😀

 

[DrSnips]

If anyone else gets asked this, make sure you say "Oh definitely someone alive! Much better conversation" 😀

Or answer Schrodinger's cat.

 

[eatdrinkplay10s]

Not during the interview, but happened while the dean of admissions was welcoming us to the university and telling us about the curriculum.

Dean: So with our curriculum, we are changing how medicine has been taught for the past hundred years. Who can tell me who came up with the current system for medical education? How about you, eatdrinkplay10s?

Me: (blanking out, no idea) I'm not sure…uh…Hippocrates?

Dean: No, not quite. Let me put it a different way. Where have you spent a lot of time?

Me: (lost) Uhm…China?? (I have family there, but wtf brain?)

Turns out the answer was Hopkins. He had called on me because our nametags had our names and undergrad institutions. There it was – eatdrinkplay10s, Johns Hopkins University.

We laughed about it afterwards, and I sent him a thank-you note that ended with "I promise my science is better than my history!"

 

[Laurlaur]

Not during the interview, but happened while the dean of admissions was welcoming us to the university and telling us about the curriculum.

Dean: So with our curriculum, we are changing how medicine has been taught for the past hundred years. Who can tell me who came up with the current system for medical education? How about you, eatdrinkplay10s?

Me: (blanking out, no idea) I’m not sure…uh…Hippocrates?

Dean: No, not quite. Let me put it a different way. Where have you spent a lot of time?

Me: (lost) Uhm…China?? (I have family there, but wtf brain?)

Turns out the answer was Hopkins. He had called on me because our nametags had our names and undergrad institutions. There it was – eatdrinkplay10s, Johns Hopkins University.

We laughed about it afterwards, and I sent him a thank-you note that ended with “I promise my science is better than my history!”

I die. That is toooooo funny

 

[nalah]

At my very first interview:

Interviewer: So if you could have dinner with 3 people, alive, dead, or imaginary who would it be? Anyone, they don't even have to exist.
me: Iron man
interviewer: haha and why?
me: oh he's hilarious and a super hero. And I'd want to ask about the arc reactor technology because I would want a suit.
interviewer: ok next person..

result: accepted, I guess they were fans of Iron Man (and I mean who isn't)

 

[235009]

At my very first interview:

Interviewer: So if you could have dinner with 3 people, alive, dead, or imaginary who would it be? Anyone, they don't even have to exist.
me: Iron man
interviewer: haha and why?
me: oh he's hilarious and a super hero. And I'd want to ask about the arc reactor technology because I would want a suit.
interviewer: ok next person..

result: accepted, I guess they were fans of Iron Man (and I mean who isn't)

ummm that's an awesome/genuine answer ....definitely doesn't belong in this thread

 

[I'm No Superman]

At my very first interview:

Interviewer: So if you could have dinner with 3 people, alive, dead, or imaginary who would it be? Anyone, they don't even have to exist.
me: Iron man
interviewer: haha and why?
me: oh he's hilarious and a super hero. And I'd want to ask about the arc reactor technology because I would want a suit.
interviewer: ok next person..

result: accepted, I guess they were fans of Iron Man (and I mean who isn't)

*best* interview answer.

 

[Irish Football]

At my very first interview:

Interviewer: So if you could have dinner with 3 people, alive, dead, or imaginary who would it be? Anyone, they don't even have to exist.
me: Iron man
interviewer: haha and why?
me: oh he's hilarious and a super hero. And I'd want to ask about the arc reactor technology because I would want a suit.
interviewer: ok next person..

result: accepted, I guess they were fans of Iron Man (and I mean who isn't)

Who were your other two?

 

[nalah]

Who were your other two?

Tesla because I watched a documentary on him the week before on History channel and a friend of my brother's who had died.

 

[kimposibl]

Tesla because I watched a documentary on him the week before on History channel and a friend of my brother's who had died.

Was it "Men who built America"? Tesla was a very good man, though he became a bit of a crazy later in his life. My favorite quote in the "historical reenactment" between him and Westinghouse, "I work for free".

 

[TheShaker]

Talking about my restaurant job at Disneyland.

Interviewer: Oh, you were a waiter...that sounds exciting. 🙄
Me: 😕...Yeah...I guess...umm...(fumbles around to make something good of it for about a minute).
Interviewer: I was kidding...
Me: Well...at least it got me free admissions to Disneyland...so that was exciting. 😳

Never had a better whoosh moment.

 

[Tots]

Talking about my restaurant job at Disneyland.

Interviewer: Oh, you were a waiter...that sounds exciting. 🙄
Me: 😕...Yeah...I guess...umm...(fumbles around to make something good of it for about a minute).
Interviewer: I was kidding...
Me: Well...at least it got me free admissions to Disneyland...so that was exciting. 😳

Never had a better whoosh moment.

You worked at Disneyland? I may have worked in attractions there...not admitting anything. 😀

 

[seracus]

You worked at Disneyland? I may have worked in attractions there...not admitting anything. 😀

No confession necessary: Your profile picture says it all. (Though maybe replace the coffee with some liquor for mental health.)

 

[TheShaker]

You worked at Disneyland? I may have worked in attractions there...not admitting anything. 😀

It's ok, your avatar does the speaking for you. 😀

Yeah, I worked in one of the California Adventures hotels for a few months. I really wish I stayed longer! 🙂

 

[45408]

What do they expect us to say? I was doing the same thing as a freshman.

"I had some trouble prioritizing my social life with academics, but that semester was a wake-up call for me, and since then, I've focused myself to ensure that I address school first. It's important to have a work-life balance, and I think I was able to achieve that, which is why my grades improved blah blah blah."

me Well, I think it's impossible to judge another person based only on their alleged actions, and there will always be a legitimate argument based on the "good" of one's intentions, but on the flip side, he DID kill lots of people blah blah blah.

Right after the interview, I realized Al Pacino is an actor. I was talking about Al Capone.

That's pretty funny.

 

[skiing]

My Harvard interviewer made me read Chinese. I have a second grade proficiency in Chinese, although I speak fluently. Unfortunately, AMCAS makes no distinction... he stared at me blankly.

 

[YankyDoodle]

Not during the interview, but happened while the dean of admissions was welcoming us to the university and telling us about the curriculum.

Dean: So with our curriculum, we are changing how medicine has been taught for the past hundred years. Who can tell me who came up with the current system for medical education? How about you, eatdrinkplay10s?

Me: (blanking out, no idea) I’m not sure…uh…Hippocrates?

Dean: No, not quite. Let me put it a different way. Where have you spent a lot of time?

Me: (lost) Uhm…China?? (I have family there, but wtf brain?)

Turns out the answer was Hopkins. He had called on me because our nametags had our names and undergrad institutions. There it was – eatdrinkplay10s, Johns Hopkins University.

We laughed about it afterwards, and I sent him a thank-you note that ended with “I promise my science is better than my history!”

Was that at Pitt?

 

[Jas1360]

So at some point in our conversation I mention an opportunity I had to be a standardized patient for a class of first responders.

Interviewer: What was that like?

Me: *thinking, perfect tell him something good*

What do I actually say?

Me: Well, I learned never use ketchup as fake blood on a hot day. 😳

 

[dfib slim]

.

 

[SpecterGT260]

This could easily be split off into a "worst interview questions" thread

who the hell has everything for med school saved up ahead of time? 😕

 

[Geebeejay]

I had a little foot-in-mouth disease on one interview:

I: So, what are your favorite parts about working in the ER?
Me: Well, (good responses, good delivery. He agrees, and pauses...probably preparing next question).And there are a lot of male nurses working in the ED, and I think having a strong male presence in nursing is great! (Uh-oh. I'm a male, not a sexist, and do NOT want to come off as a sexist! Please, dear god don't ask a follow-up question)
I: Oh really? Why is that?
Me: (oh !@#$, dammit, jesus). Said something like Well, male nurses seem to approach caring for patients in a slightly different way than females, and I think the differing personalities and perspectives between genders only diversifies and improves the type of care we can deliver. (ok that was an okay answer...moving on?)
I: Interesting...what differences?
Me, visibly uncomfortable: (fumbled, sloppy response...probably came off as huge sexist a*shole)

I dunno what I was thinking. Patients often positively comment on the noticeably large male presence in nursing in the ED I work in, so I think that's why this one slipped out.

 

[TheShaker]

This could easily be split off into a "worst interview questions" thread

who the hell has everything for med school saved up ahead of time? 😕

I think it was more to see if the applicant actually looked into what they were getting into. I imagine there would be people out there who don't know just how much debt they're about to accumulate.

 

[ShenanigansMD]

I had a little foot-in-mouth disease on one interview:

I: So, what are your favorite parts about working in the ER?
Me: Well, (good responses, good delivery. He agrees, and pauses...probably preparing next question).And there are a lot of male nurses working in the ED, and I think having a strong male presence in nursing is great! (Uh-oh. I'm a male, not a sexist, and do NOT want to come off as a sexist! Please, dear god don't ask a follow-up question)
I: Oh really? Why is that?
Me: (oh !@#$, dammit, jesus). Said something like Well, male nurses seem to approach caring for patients in a slightly different way than females, and I think the differing personalities and perspectives between genders only diversifies and improves the type of care we can deliver. (ok that was an okay answer...moving on?)
I: Interesting...what differences?
Me, visibly uncomfortable: (fumbled, sloppy response...probably came off as huge sexist a*shole)

I dunno what I was thinking. Patients often positively comment on the noticeably large male presence in nursing in the ED I work in, so I think that's why this one slipped out.

That's a hard one to work your way out of.

 

[bortenson]

Not so much an answer as a random one-off statement...

Don't really remember how it came up, but:

Interviewer: "For example, our Men's Health rotation is done at the Planned Parenthood Clinic across the street."
Me: *Men's* Health?
Interviewer: Yes, men's health, a lot more goes on there than most people realize.
Me: Oh of course, but the way some people talk about Planned Partenthood, they managed to convince me it was just an abortion factory! (obviously sarcastic)
Interviewer: *Delalyed, generous chuckle*

So yeah, I told an abortion joke during a medical school interview.

Result: Low Priority GFY waitlist.

 

[idontcaureuknow]

Oh man I was good today with dumb responses:

I: "Why did you apply to X COM?"
Me: "Well, a family member went here for his/her masters degree and obviously cause it's instate. Actually, come to think of it, I really didn't apply to many instate schools. Sooo uhh actually that doesn't count."
I: 😕
Me: "But I liked (went on to my reasons for applying to said school)"

I: So how are your support groups?
Me: (standard family response to start) and I have amazing friends. Ya know, this whole application process is brutal. I hate to say this, but it's very hard to not be bitter every now and then. But I have friends who have called me and contacted me who I honestly never thought would be there to support me. So that's nice"
I: "This process is kind of brutal"
Me: "haha I know, honestly I'll go anywhere who takes me at this point" (WHERE DID MY FILTER GO!?!?!?!)

Me: (discussing an experience of mine) "and yea, they have electric shock obstacles."
I: "So you actually get shocked"
Me: "yea like *imitiates being shocked* bzzzz" 😕
I: 😱

Results I'll post when I get them. Needless to say i'm expecting wait-list now lol. I honestly have no idea where my filter went.

 

[myactualname]

Oh man I was good today with dumb responses:

I: "Why did you apply to X COM?"
Me: "Well, a family member went here for his/her masters degree and obviously cause it's instate. Actually, come to think of it, I really didn't apply to many instate schools. Sooo uhh actually that doesn't count."
I: 😕
Me: "But I liked (went on to my reasons for applying to said school)"

I: So how are your support groups?
Me: (standard family response to start) and I have amazing friends. Ya know, this whole application process is brutal. I hate to say this, but it's very hard to not be bitter every now and then. But I have friends who have called me and contacted me who I honestly never thought would be there to support me. So that's nice"
I: "This process is kind of brutal"
Me: "haha I know, honestly I'll go anywhere who takes me at this point" (WHERE DID MY FILTER GO!?!?!?!)

Me: (discussing an experience of mine) "and yea, they have electric shock obstacles."
I: "So you actually get shocked"
Me: "yea like *imitiates being shocked* bzzzz" 😕
I: 😱

Results I'll post when I get them. Needless to say i'm expecting wait-list now lol. I honestly have no idea where my filter went.

Was the shock that bad? I'm assuming you're talking about the tough mudder. I've been debating doing it...

 

[idontcaureuknow]

Was the shock that bad? I'm assuming you're talking about the tough mudder. I've been debating doing it...

DO IT!

Honestly, it depends on the course. For the most part I've been ok (electric eel left me disoriented once 😵 ). Maybe I just resist electric shock, it normally doesn't bother me. But what had happened in the story was my teammate fell down after getting shocked in electroshock therapy (we were running through together), so I stopped and helped her get back up and get through it. I definitely got shocked, but to me it wasn't too bad. She just got knocked on her butt from it apparently though.

 

[teslaph]

Interviewer: I hope this doesn't come across as racist because it's not meant to, but why are 10 of the 13 doctors you've shadowed Chinese? Do they just all happen to be Chinese, or are a bunch of doctors Chinese?
Me: (I'm Korean) Uhh, most of them are actually Korean, . I just approached them, asked them, shadowed them *attempts to change subject and talks about how being exposed to different aspects of medicine was interesting*
Interviewer: Do you know them all personally, I know Pakistanis who have huge get-to-gethers and most of them are doctors, is it a similar situation? Is, is it like a Korean thing, to become a doctor? Do you know a lot of these Koreans personally, is that why you've shadowed them all?
Me:.............

I was accepted.

 

[scruggs92]

Interviewer: So why did you chose medicine?
Me: Seriously? That's the most cliche question in the book... Can we move on to the next question?
Interviewer: Uhhh sure (really caught him off guard), what makes ___ medical school stand out over other schools?
Me: Hmm, to be honest, there isn't anything that makes it stand out. I just applied because my MCAT and GPA are higher than the averages. So it's basically a guarantee that I'll get in here.
Interviewer: (Looks at me funny) You do realize that MCATs and GPAs aren't the only things that determine whether you get accepted right?
Me: Yeah... That's why you're interviewing me. Before we move on, can I ask you some questions?
Interviewer: (Getting a little frustrated) Suuure why not.
Me: Why kind of scholarship will I be getting?
Interviewer: None.
Me: I'm done, see ya later.

I got accepted, and I declined.

 

[teslaph]

So I'm at an out of state interview sitting with a 4th year male med student (I am male). We sit down and make brief introductions then he says:

Interviewer: So basically I'm here to get you into __ medical school. You just need to relay to me how to present your file in the best way possible to the admissions board. Now I've never done an interview before, so I think it would be good to start off with a joke. Do you have one?

Me: Well I'm not one to really tell jokes, but here's my favorite one. It's a story, so I'll try to tell it quickly.

Three men are lost in the jungle and are trying to return to civilization. During their journey they come across a tribe of cannibals. The cannibal king, feeling quite gracious that day, says to the men, "We will only let you live if you pass a series of tests... the first phase is to go your separate ways in the jungle and collect ten pieces of the same kind of fruit." The three men feel obliged to cooperate as they see no other way to survive, so they go their separate ways. The first man comes back with ten apples and presents them to the cannibal king to which he says, "the second phase of the test is that you must shove all ten pieces of fruit up your rectum without wincing in pain or else we will eat you." So the first man attempts to do so, but he shows pain on the second apple and subsequently they eat him. The second man comes back with ten grapes and presents them to the king. After telling the man what to do he begins: 1, 2, 3...7, 8, and on the ninth grape he bursts into laughter so the tribe kills him. Now the first and the second man meet in heaven, and the first guy is really confused and enraged. He says to the second man, "Why did you laugh? You could have gotten away with it so easily?" The second man replies, "I couldn't help myself, I saw the third guy coming with pineapples."

Reflection: I can't believe this really happened. I look back upon it and I'm just like - this is the most important day of my life and I'm telling a stupid joke about people shoving fruit up their butts. At the time it was hilarious (or so I perceived), and we both laughed and just went on with the interview. At the end of the day I felt that I did quite well, but seriously wtf what I thinking!?

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