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Oh I remember another one - this was an elder social worker (super sweet so I wasn't too sure how to read her)

Interviewer: You are so pretty
Me: Uh... Why thank you... You flatter me
Interviewer: Really. Hows your personal life and how will you balance that? (Reworded - can't remember exact words)
Me: I understand it may be put on hold for a while. Plus, freedom in being single right?
Interviewer: What a pity
 
moisne said:
Oh I remember another one - this was an elder social worker (super sweet so I wasn't too sure how to read her)

Interviewer: You are so pretty
Me: Uh... Why thank you... You flatter me
Interviewer: Really. Hows your personal life and how will you balance that? (Reworded - can't remember exact words)
Me: I understand it may be put on hold for a while. Plus, freedom in being single right?
Interviewer: What a pity
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Please send pics to pm to verify validity of statement.
 
Pm? Sorry bad with acronyms - private message? Keep in mind, I'm not stating I'm pretty. She was about 60-80 year old social worker that like to say things like "oh you are a sweetheart" etc.

I interviewed today and wasn't sure how to answer half of their questions.
 
Reckoner said:
Finally getting around to posting this. The night before my first interview I was browsing a reddit thread on great one-liners. The next day, I'm wrapping things up with my last interviewer - a professor emeritus who is 80+ years old.

Him: Before you go, what's a good joke you've heard recently?
Reckoner: (Immediately starting the first joke I could remember from the thread): What do you get when you mix human DNA and goat DNA?
Him: ???
Reckoner: (WHY WHY WHY DID I PICK THIS JOKE) Kicked out of the petting zoo...
Him: :lame:..... (30 seconds pass)..... Well, good luck!

Result: won't know until early spring
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Result of the bestiality joke debacle: accepted.

This process is truly unpredictable.
 
moisne said:
Pm? Sorry bad with acronyms - private message? Keep in mind, I'm not stating I'm pretty. She was about 60-80 year old social worker that like to say things like "oh you are a sweetheart" etc.

I interviewed today and wasn't sure how to answer half of their questions.
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I was trolling. I believe you tho 🙂

Congrats on the acceptance! I saw your post on the school specific thread! I was accepted as well back in early January!
 
This is what I was asked in the last interview at the State lab:

Interviewer: "What do you think public health is?"
Me:"....hmmm that's an excellent question, wow that was a good one....ahhhhh public health is healthcare for the public, um ya so wow that was good."
Interviewer: :uhno:

Still cant believe I answered that.
 
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Reckoner said:
Result of the bestiality joke debacle: accepted.

This process is truly unpredictable.
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I think the interviewer and I are in the same page.... I still don't get the joke....... Someone help me.....
 
One of my professors talked about the grad school interview for a student he knew.

Interviewer: "So you took many upper-level biology courses. Do you know what GPCR stands for?"
Student: "Well, I know how to do PCR and qRT-PCR. I don't know how to do GPCR."
Interviewer: "It stands for G protein-coupled receptors."
Student: ".........................(Why did I not just say I don't know)"
Interviewer: "Do you have any questions for me?"


Result: Rejected
 
Utah interview

Interviewer: why are you here (why you want to practice medicine

Me: I'm here to interview for a position at this med school and be a doctor

Interviewer: ....

:3
 
Lya said:
One of my professors talked about the grad school interview for a student he knew.

Interviewer: "So you took many upper-level biology courses. Do you know what GPCR stands for?"
Student: "Well, I know how to do PCR and qRT-PCR. I don't know how to do GPCR."
Interviewer: "It stands for G protein-coupled receptors."
Student: ".........................(Why did I not just say I don't know)"
Interviewer: "Do you have any questions for me?"


Result: Rejected
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That's a ridiculous question. There's always the possibility that your professor never used that acronym.
 
moisne said:
Utah interview

Interviewer: why are you here (why you want to practice medicine

Me: I'm here to interview for a position at this med school and be a doctor

Interviewer: ....

:3
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I think that would have been funny.

interviewer: so why are you here today?
student: well, you invited me!
 
Worst question I heard a student say ask a few weeks ago at an interview: "Are there like, no homeless people here?" word for word

Me (in my head): WHY WOULD YOU EVEN THINK TO ASK THAT TYPE OF QUESTION?

no joke. You should have seen my eyes when I overheard the question.
 
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LuciusVorenus said:
I was doing an MMI and when I walked into the room I was kinda still thinking about the question so when the interviewer extended her hand for a handshake I just handed her my pen and sat down. She couldn't stop laughing :/
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This actually ended up being my first acceptance! I guess you never really know.
 
This is by far my worst response:

Interviewer: What would be the cons of a new law that requires HIV+ individuals to disclose their condition prior to engaging in sexual intercourse with a partner?
----(For some reason, I imagined having to tell a person right before sex 😱.. it went downhill from there)----
Me: Well, being so straightforward would be difficult becuase it might decrease their chances... (did I just say that?!)
Interviewer: :wideyed::laugh::laugh:
Me: *blushes* I mean, their chances of continuing the relationship, of course. If you tell them on a first date, they might hesitate to call you back.. (I need to stop talking!!)
Interviewer: *uncontrollable laughter that lasted more than a minute*

Did I mention it was an 8 minute MMI? That minute was valuable.. :bang:
 
Nena01 said:
This is by far my worst response:

Interviewer: What would be the cons of a new law that requires HIV+ individuals to disclose their condition prior to engaging in sexual intercourse with a partner?
----(For some reason, I imagined having to tell a person right before sex 😱.. it went downhill from there)----
Me: Well, being so straightforward would be difficult becuase it might decrease their chances... (did I just say that?!)
Interviewer: :wideyed::laugh::laugh:
Me: *blushes* I mean, their chances of continuing the relationship, of course. If you tell them on a first date, they might hesitate to call you back.. (I need to stop talking!!)
Interviewer: *uncontrollable laughter that lasted more than a minute*

Did I mention it was an 8 minute MMI? That minute was valuable.. :bang:
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Lol lol decrease their chances hahahaha
 
Ncognito13 said:
This was a couple weeks ago:

Interviewer: tell me something that you sacrificed during your undergrad

Me: Dating (I blurted it out immediately)

Interviewer: umm, can you please explain?

Me: Well, I did date during this time but not as much as I wanted. Like if I had a big midterm coming up, I would blow off a date to study instead. (what sucks is that "blowing off" can be interpreted as cancelling without letting the person know. What I meant to say was that school was my priority during this time.)

Interviewer: Ok... Any more questions for me?

Me: .....No


In hindsight I would have simply said that I missed out on hanging out with friends back home (my campus is 40 minutes away). This would have been a lot less awkward :/
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Best answer would be to not skip a beat and say "mice"
 
LuciusVorenus said:
I was doing an MMI and when I walked into the room I was kinda still thinking about the question so when the interviewer extended her hand for a handshake I just handed her my pen and sat down. She couldn't stop laughing :/
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I also had pen issues during an MMI interview. The rooms had slanted benches for the interviewees to sit on and we were given a pen and scratch paper to write on. In no fewer than three rooms, I put the pen on the bench and it dropped to the floor and slid underneath the bench. I spent the first 20 seconds of three mini-interviews on my hands and knees searching for my pen on the floor. I can just imagine them at the adcom meeting discussing me as the least coordinated and most spastic person they encountered.
 
Q: What do you do when you aren't studying or working?
A: Excuse me?
Q: What do you do for fun? Like hobbies? To relax?
A: ... uh.... uh... I like bubble baths

LOL just a week ago, I watched a microbiology lecture for fun right before bed - but I didn't want to sound like a nerd with no life.

By the way, if you let an E. Coli bacteria replicate once every 12 minutes for 24 hours... the volume the bacteria (0.6 cubic microns) would take up approximately 7.3 times the Earth's volume 😀
 
During an interview they asked me what I'd do if a homeless veteran asked me for some change for food but I suspected it was for something else. I said I didn't care. A beer or a pack of cigarettes is a drop in the bucket if they had an addiction, but if I felt strongly about it going for food it I could just buy him some. Yes, I was rejected.
 
AlbinoHawk DO said:
During an interview they asked me what I'd do if a homeless veteran asked me for some change for food but I suspected it was for something else. I said I didn't care. A beer or a pack of cigarettes is a drop in the bucket if they had an addiction, but if I felt strongly about it going for food it I could just buy him some. Yes, I was rejected.
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Hook the vet up with pharma grade lab EtOH and a 'thank you for your service'.
 
AlbinoHawk DO said:
During an interview they asked me what I'd do if a homeless veteran asked me for some change for food but I suspected it was for something else. I said I didn't care. A beer or a pack of cigarettes is a drop in the bucket if they had an addiction, but if I felt strongly about it going for food it I could just buy him some. Yes, I was rejected.
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I was asked this and I said that's why I carry around 5 dollars gift cards to mcdonalds or other fast food places.
 
LabratABQ said:
I was asked this and I said that's why I carry around 5 dollars gift cards to mcdonalds or other fast food places.
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It's really easy to pawn off gift cards. Just collect a few and sell them for 50% of face value, then you have cash for booze and cigarettes. Happens all the time.
 
Euxox said:
It's really easy to pawn off gift cards. Just collect a few and sell them for 50% of face value, then you have cash for booze and cigarettes. Happens all the time.
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all that for 5 bucks?
 
AlbinoHawk DO said:
During an interview they asked me what I'd do if a homeless veteran asked me for some change for food but I suspected it was for something else. I said I didn't care. A beer or a pack of cigarettes is a drop in the bucket if they had an addiction, but if I felt strongly about it going for food it I could just buy him some. Yes, I was rejected.
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Yes, the interviewer at Marian did not like that answer when I answered it the same way.

Rejected as well haha
 
One of my recommenders wrote that I had a really dry sense of humor (which is usually expressed in conversation). So my interviewer asked me to tell him a joke. I'm not a stand up comedian, so I can't just tell a joke on command like that but I had to say something....

Me: What did the Dalai Llama say to the hotdog vender?
Interviewer: What?
Me: Make me one with everything.
Interviewer: **stares at me blankly**
Me: Yanno.. cause he's meditating.. and umm.. yanno?
<<five minutes of awkward silence>>
Interviewer: OOOOHHHH!!!! That was clever.
Me: Yeah, it's a real thinker (sarcastically)
Interviewer: No, it's not. It was your delivery.
>_<


but I got that acceptance letter though!
 
1badmamajama said:
One of my recommenders wrote that I had a really dry sense of humor (which is usually expressed in conversation). So my interviewer asked me to tell him a joke. I'm not a stand up comedian, so I can't just tell a joke on command like that but I had to say something....

Me: What did the Dalai Llama say to the hotdog vender?
Interviewer: What?
Me: Make me one with everything.
Interviewer: **stares at me blankly**
Me: Yanno.. cause he's meditating.. and umm.. yanno?
<<five minutes of awkward silence>>
Interviewer: OOOOHHHH!!!! That was clever.
Me: Yeah, it's a real thinker (sarcastically)
Interviewer: No, it's not. It was your delivery.
>_<


but I got that acceptance letter though!
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Ohhhhh ya!!!!! Wait what I don't get it. Lol
 
1badmamajama said:
One of my recommenders wrote that I had a really dry sense of humor (which is usually expressed in conversation). So my interviewer asked me to tell him a joke. I'm not a stand up comedian, so I can't just tell a joke on command like that but I had to say something....

Me: What did the Dalai Llama say to the hotdog vender?
Interviewer: What?
Me: Make me one with everything.
Interviewer: **stares at me blankly**
Me: Yanno.. cause he's meditating.. and umm.. yanno?
<<five minutes of awkward silence>>
Interviewer: OOOOHHHH!!!! That was clever.
Me: Yeah, it's a real thinker (sarcastically)
Interviewer: No, it's not. It was your delivery.
>_<


but I got that acceptance letter though!
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Five minutes... really? Buddha...
 
Warnerade said:
Yes, the interviewer at Marian did not like that answer when I answered it the same way.

Rejected as well haha
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He didn't seem upset when I said it, but I figured that was my only "controversial" answer which did me under. When I asked the school, they gave me a vague BS reason like "it was body language" and refused to specify what it was.
 
My friend is really into research and was interviewing for Yale's MSTP program. Him and the interviewer had very similar research topics and they were really vibing. My friend starts getting nervous because he's late for his next interview. Towards the end of the interview my friend gets up to shake the guy's hand, and intending to say "I love your research", accidentally blurts out "I LOVE YOU." He tried to make up for it by following up with "your research is awesome." Awkward goodbyes and the interview ended. I died of laughter when he told me this story.
 
AlbinoHawk DO said:
He didn't seem upset when I said it, but I figured that was my only "controversial" answer which did me under. When I asked the school, they gave me a vague BS reason like "it was body language" and refused to specify what it was.
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I "didn't seem excited" enough....I just laughed when I read the email.
 
It was one of those moments when my mouth was moving and my brain was screaming, "What are you doing? Stop!" I went off on a small tangent about how I always tell my dad I'm only 85% sure I want to be a doctor because the thought of committing myself to something forever scares me.

If someone told me they were only 85% sure they'd want to go to med school, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be recommending them.

I also asked a tour guide if I could "derail" her... Which sounded oddly sexual. I meant her chain of thought -- but whatever.
 
chillaxbro said:
According to him, it's bad in the Korean culture to look superiors in the eye and a lot of korean interviewees wouldnt make eye contact during interviews
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As a Korean myself, I can confirm this lol.
It is considered rude if you look at superiors in the eyes directly.
 
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brood910 said:
As a Korean myself, I can confirm this lol.
It is considered rude if you look at superiors in eyes directly.
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I think it applies to all the Asian cultures, I know it is the same for Native Americans, too. My best friend is Navajo.
 
AlbinoHawk DO said:
During an interview they asked me what I'd do if a homeless veteran asked me for some change for food but I suspected it was for something else. I said I didn't care. A beer or a pack of cigarettes is a drop in the bucket if they had an addiction, but if I felt strongly about it going for food it I could just buy him some. Yes, I was rejected.
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I watched a documentary a few weeks ago on the connection between homelessness and heroin addiction. They seemed to assert that in modern society, people will tend towards drugs that take them away from reality until they are chemically/psychologically addicted to the substance. All the programs in the world won't help if after they leave they are still homeless and have nothing else to turn to. These people will do anything to get their fix. If it isn't using donated money for drugs, it would be stealing-- in the end there is no reason to give food instead of money. The solution is to support these people and get them a home and a job first, then focus on the drugs second.

I think you had a good answer and some people are naive to the actual situation.
 
1badmamajama said:
One of my recommenders wrote that I had a really dry sense of humor (which is usually expressed in conversation). So my interviewer asked me to tell him a joke. I'm not a stand up comedian, so I can't just tell a joke on command like that but I had to say something....

Me: What did the Dalai Llama say to the hotdog vender?
Interviewer: What?
Me: Make me one with everything.
Interviewer: **stares at me blankly**
Me: Yanno.. cause he's meditating.. and umm.. yanno?
<<five minutes of awkward silence>>
Interviewer: OOOOHHHH!!!! That was clever.
Me: Yeah, it's a real thinker (sarcastically)
Interviewer: No, it's not. It was your delivery.
>_<


but I got that acceptance letter though!
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Hahaha please tell me you've seen this

 
1badmamajama said:
One of my recommenders wrote that I had a really dry sense of humor (which is usually expressed in conversation). So my interviewer asked me to tell him a joke. I'm not a stand up comedian, so I can't just tell a joke on command like that but I had to say something....

Me: What did the Dalai Llama say to the hotdog vender?
Interviewer: What?
Me: Make me one with everything.
Interviewer: **stares at me blankly**
Me: Yanno.. cause he's meditating.. and umm.. yanno?
<<five minutes of awkward silence>>
Interviewer: OOOOHHHH!!!! That was clever.
Me: Yeah, it's a real thinker (sarcastically)
Interviewer: No, it's not. It was your delivery.
>_<


but I got that acceptance letter though!
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Someone help me.... I still don't get it...................................

Edit: That video about one pizza with everything also doesn't make any sense................ I seriously need to take joke 101.....
 
Lya said:
Someone help me.... I still don't get it...................................

Edit: That video about one pizza with everything also doesn't make any sense................ I seriously need to take joke 101.....
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I watched it too and it didn't make any sense either. I got even more confuse.
 
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