Worst/Funniest Interview Experiences

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I'm thinking modesty at a Harvard interview doesn't go over too well. I told my faculty interviewer that one of my biggest weaknesses was that I get very self-conscious about selling myself, and he replied that if I wasn't going to do it, who would? Not that I was expecting an acceptance from there anyway, but another nail in the coffin.
 
Wanna_B_Scutty said:
If that ever actually happened, and if your school is in the USA, then your school is in violation of Federal law- specifically, the 1995 Medical Training Nondiscrimination Act. Regardless of what you may think, the Feds see forcing someone to violate their religious or moral beliefs as discrimination.

As I understand it, your institution could be stripped of Health & Human Svcs funds including Medicare, Medicaid, etc. So frankly, I doubt this ever happened. But if it did...

Here's a copy of the relevant law:

1995 Medical Training Nondiscrimination Act
(a) IN GENERAL- The Federal Government, and any State that receives Federal financial assistance, may not subject any health care entity to discrimination on the basis that--
`(1) the entity refuses to undergo training in the performance of induced abortions, to provide such training, to perform such abortions, or to provide referrals for such abortions;
`(2) the entity refuses to make arrangements for any of the activities specified in paragraph (1); or
`(3) the entity attends (or attended) a postgraduate physician training program, or any other program of training in the health professions, that does not (or did not) require, provide or arrange for training in the performance of induced abortions, or make arrangements for the provision of such training.
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Actually it did happen and I don't think my school was violating any laws. No one said anything about forcing anyone to perform or refer for abortion- we're talking about people who are applying to medical school. Rejecting an applicant who has worked at a crisis pregnancy center- for that reason alone- does not imply religious discrimination. Rather- the interviewer could have found it insulting and in poor medical judgement for someone to have worked at centers that have routinely been found to offer false medical information to people (ie abortion causes breast cancer). I'm not sure how you jumped to the religious bias conclusion unless you'e implying that all those who work at crisis pregnancy centers must be religious? Or that all people who are against reproductive choice must be religious?

My point was that I believe it's best to remember that you know nothing about the person interviewing you and you should choose your words carefully.

On another note- during one interview for a MD/PhD program I was asked if I was planning to have children and if so, how was I planning to balance that with my training. I'm assuming they asked because of the length of the program and perhaps because I was married? Programs can ask you almost any question for multiple reasons despite the intentions of the law. Very few people use the law to find out why they were regected from a program.

Ps. you may want to use your disclosure on all your posts.
 
Nomemory said:
My point was that both are intellectual handicaps (i.e., a lower than average IQ), which can manifest in several ways (including socially). The difference being that one is to a lesser degree. However, I was just in a poopy mood yesterday, so I was probably being inflammatory. My bad, I take it back. 😳
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No its ok. I don't know that mos people are referring to the people with truly low IQs though when we refer to stupidity.

Those who truly truly have low IQs are often times people who can't make it into college or even through college that well.

But when I refer to stupid people, I mean people who are too lazy to do a little research for themselves that they depend on people for every little thing. I.e. The other day I was working at the computer lab when this guy came in.

The guy is obviously not someone with a low IQ if he is a in a 3000 level class at the university. But so anyhow "what happened?" you ask.

He needed help printing so I referred him to the sign above the printer which I refer all students to. It clearly says "Go to File and Print. Choose SOC 279 Printer. and hit Print"

Then a screen comes up and shows to type in username. So I told him to do that and from there it should be easy to figure out because the little card machine is there to show that you put your ID card in the little reader and then choose the print job.

Instead what happened? Well first he was harrassing me when I told him to put the card in the machine and select his print job. Then he was so stupid he couldn't even figure out how to push a blue button that clearly says return card or hit the logoff x at the bottom of the screen. I mean once you've put your card in the machine its pretty straightforward and a 5 year old could probably figure out how to print and that you select the print job and hit print. Yet this grown 30 year old man was making an ass of himself before me and other lab attendants. he didn't have enough money on his card to print either so he went out of his way to try to beg me to walk him downstairs to put money on his card which I refused to do because it isn't my job to take people downstairs just to tell them where to go. That kind of stupidity and inability to follow the simplest of directions and use common sense is the kind of stupidity I refer to when I refer to stupidity. I'm sure other people here would feel the same way.

Another example is of those people who raise their hands in class to ask a series of questions even though the professor just answered those same questions by going over the same exact material just 2 minutes before.

Or yet another example. A friend of mine teaches physics up north and on her facebook wall she once wrote that she had students in highschool who would use a calculator to add a number to 0 or to add something as simple as 1 + 1.

Get the drift??
 
Interviewer: If you found out that a large percentage of the class cheated on an exam by using past exams, would you tell the professor?

Me: Um...did I cheat also?

Interviewer: No.

Me: Will they know that I was the one who told you?

Interviewer: Yes.

Me: Um...I think it would be difficult to do so, although I know I should.

Interviewer: So is that a yes or a no?

Me: I guess a No?

Interviewer: I see. I'm asking this because this scenario occurred last year with a class of 125. Only one person came to me and told me the truth. There was only one ethical person out of 125 future physicians.

Me: ...



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Interviewer: So what kind of people annoy you the most?

Me (without thinking): Bitter old people.. (I then realized that two of my three panel interviewers were old)... who drive slowly....



Needless to say, I have not been accepted to date.
 
kelaskov said:
Wow- there's a good chance that an answer like the one above would bring you a rejection letter from the medical school I attend. I know people on our admissions committee who have flat out rejected applicants who have worked at crisis pregnancy centers and applicants who are blatantly anti-choice when being interviewed.
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Are you serious? If so, that is atrocious. Our society has reached the point where if you are pro-life, you are not allowed to become a doctor?
 
WCGee said:
Interviewer: So what kind of people annoy you the most?

Me (without thinking): Bitter old people.. (I then realized that two of my three panel interviewers were old)... who drive slowly....
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Interviewer: Do you hate anybody?
Me: I hate people, but I love mankind.
Interviewer: So do you hate me?
Me: :scared: :scared: uhh... no it's just a saying you se-
Interviewer: uh huh. I get it. You just get irritated with people a lot?
Me: No, I meant um... well you see I think sometimes people do stupid things... (I use an example of people driving with the engine light on in their car and then finding out they ran the car in the ground)
Interviewer: I drive with my maintenance light on all the time.
Me: ...

We'll see how things turn out. I almost feel like my interviewer was screwing with me, but who knows.
 
Allie86 said:
HAHAHHAHAHAH... CRACKED me up dude.

Well anyway, I remembered one of mine. It was my first interview and I had suit issues.. I bought it while I was abroad, my pants were too big so I had to jam my thumbs into my pockets and keep them hoisted up during the whole tour/freakin hour long hike. Also, my shoes were a NIGHTMARE, my toes were all skinned cleanly across 10 minutes into it, and blood was practically pooling from the gash at my heel. So I hung at the back of the tour group so I wouldn't flash anyone while going up the stairs, and frankly I didn't concentrate on anything being said since I couldn't really hear from the back.

Anyhow, my first interview was with the head of the admission commitee (pressure anyone?) who'se been interviewing for over a decade..

Interviewer: So come in to my office.. you just came back from the tour ay? what'd you see..?
Me: **BLAAAAANK** ... Patients .. and.. ER.. and.. Shock trauma!
(Note.. this school didn't not have a shock trauma center)
INterviewer: oh really? what else?
Me: **nooo it's not over?!?!** Well the hospital is just amazing, really state-of-the-art, just wonderful, I loved it .. amazing.. amazing .. (and insert about 5 more 'amaizngs' .. Note that their hospital is actually pretty small and mediocre.. but it was my first interview so I was impressed)
Interviewer: **Pause.. bewildered look.. is this girl on something** .. OK, so have you ever been to a hospital in this country? (not really sarcastic, he knows I spent most of my life in another country)

Just in case you think it'd get better, Later on..

Interviewer: What is Medicine to you
Me: **oh baby.. I got this one.. I have 2 paragraphs practically memorizes.. alright GO!**... uhh.. independence? (No where in my rehearsed answer is there 'independence')
Interviewer: independence?... ok.. is that it?
Me: **Thinking.. .silence** Ya.



Oh. I got in.

and places where I nailed the interview and did no make a fool of myself?.. waitlist.. Logic clearly breaks down somewhere along th eline in this process.
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hilarious. 👍
 
gsmithers68 said:
Interviewer: Do you hate anybody?
Me: I hate people, but I love mankind.
Interviewer: So do you hate me?
Me: :scared: :scared: uhh... no it's just a saying you se-
Interviewer: uh huh. I get it. You just get irritated with people a lot?
Me: No, I meant um... well you see I think sometimes people do stupid things... (I use an example of people driving with the engine light on in their car and then finding out they ran the car in the ground)
Interviewer: I drive with my maintenance light on all the time.
Me: ...

We'll see how things turn out. I almost feel like my interviewer was screwing with me, but who knows.
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Hahahaha. Wow it seems like everyone and their mother keeps getting asked this question.
 
monkily_stealth said:
If you can muster the courage, give your worst interview response. Here's mine, the very last question from my first interview:

Interviewer: "Tell me, what is one of your weaknesses, if you don't mind?"
Me: *Pause* "Hmm... well, when I get really stressed out, I tend to eat lots of junk food...and, yeah..."
Interviewer: *bewildered chuckle* "Ok, well do you have any questions for me?"
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I think this will have a positive rather than negative affect.
 
Trismegistus4 said:
Are you serious? If so, that is atrocious. Our society has reached the point where if you are pro-life, you are not allowed to become a doctor?
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Kudos to you and scutty. I wanted to post something in response to kelaskov as well, but this seemed like a fun kind of thread which doesn't deserve to turn into a flame war 🙂 .
 
Interviewer: If you found out that a large percentage of the class cheated on an exam by using past exams, would you tell the professor?

Me: Um...did I cheat also?

Interviewer: No.

Me: Will they know that I was the one who told you?

Interviewer: Yes.

Me: Um...I think it would be difficult to do so, although I know I should.

Interviewer: So is that a yes or a no?

Me: I guess a No?

Interviewer: I see. I'm asking this because this scenario occurred last year with a class of 125. Only one person came to me and told me the truth. There was only one ethical person out of 125 future physicians.
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Ah....my theory about the ethical standards of future physicians gains support...... :meanie:
 
This is awesome!

Anyways, not a med school interview, but I was an interviewer for a volunteer internship program. One of the other interviewers asked a girl applying for a position to describe herself in one word. She said spaz. haha.
 
Just rememered this one:

Interviewer: What do you like to do on your spare time, you know, to relax?
Me: Actually I'm a big movie fan, especially foreign films.
Interviewer: Really? My wife is really into foreign films. Do you go and rent them? Or do you try to catch them in the movies? or In New York City?
Me: I download them...
Interviewer: Oh... Okay...

--> waitlist. It was my first interview of the season, and it was with the dean... i was nervous! lol
 
I love this thread. I can learn from other people's mistakes instead of having to learn from my own😀😀😀
 
Kfire326 said:
Just rememered this one:

Interviewer: What do you like to do on your spare time, you know, to relax?
Me: Actually I'm a big movie fan, especially foreign films.
Interviewer: Really? My wife is really into foreign films. Do you go and rent them? Or do you try to catch them in the movies? or In New York City?
Me: I download them...
Interviewer: Oh... Okay...

--> waitlist. It was my first interview of the season, and it was with the dean... i was nervous! lol
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
 
narc said:
Gave that exact same answer and got in. Dont tell people what you think they want to hear. I hate when people answer I would go to dentistry school of get my PhD if I couldnt get an MD. That is the worst answer in the world. Come up with something cool. Join the FBI, fish for crab, something much less BLAH!
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Mmmm, I dunno about that. . .

Yale: interviewer is a highly conservative Jewish pathologist who was >10 minutes late for the interview. Movie afficionado, not much of a music lover.

In response to the "if you couldn't do medicine" question I said "well, before I wanted to be a doctor I wanted to be a cake decorator. Maybe I'd become a pastry chef".

Never ending waitlist.

Of course, that might have also had something to do with me comparing Wagner to Pink Floyd, or saying that the last movie I saw was "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or maybe that he really hated the idea of me going straight from undergrad --> med school at the age of 21. Stupid Yale and their avg M1 age of 27. . .
 
umm. i'm obsessed with this thread. i just read all 5 pages, laughing hysterically. everyone, post your interview screw-ups!! i have several, but i'll post them later so the thread keeps getting bumped : D
 
can't even remember them all...

interviewer: so what do you hope to be your greatest accomplishment as a doctor?
me (had a major fever during this interview): ummm, well, I'd like to be able to say that I made a difference...
interviewer: ...

(I think I also pronounced the guys name wrong, because it sounded like he corrected me when I said his name, but I was delirious/incredibly nervous)

****another interview:

faculty dude: so do you have any questions for me?
(just stares at me)
(I think wildly for some time)
faculty: continues to stare at me
me: do you umm, have any more questions for me?

***** yet another

interviewer: so what did your hosts say to you about the new curriculum
me: (stammering hardcore)...(then trying to make a joke)umm actually, they were like saying it was a bit silly, because they had this problem set due monday, but then they had the lecture on the material today, so the lecture was totally useless since they had already learned it on their own monday
interviewer:...i see
me: (realizing that was not funny at all)

later on in this interview:
interviewer: so what would you do in this case?(little kid at like age 5 or something tells parents it is the other gender, parents ask for sex reassignment on birth certificate)
me: (goes on for 5 minutes along the lines of - well, assuming that it is legally ok, I think it is the right of the child to make his or her own decisions)
interviewer: (cuts me off) you know, sometimes its ok to admit that you don't have an answer
me: ...oh



all three ---> waitlists
 
At UW, being grilled on my vision for health care reform:

Intense Interviewer: Nice to meet you Mr. Belding. Let's get started. How would you reform the health care system to improve accessibility?

MB: [rambling]

II: Well, I guess I just don't see how that is going to improve access to care.

MB: I don't see how you don't see that.

II: ...
 
Interviewer: What would you say is your greatest passion?
Me: .......hmm.......cooking!!!
Interviewer: *puzzled look*: Cooking?
Me: I like to cook.
Interviewer: Ok. *looks down at her papers* So what's your plan B?

I probably caught her off guard since she was probably expecting some canned response about helping people.
 
bump
...for the upcoming interview season...
 
interviewer: "We have to sacrifice the males, there's a window within which their organs must be harvested."

me: "I would be fine with that. It seems like a humane way of killing them, injecting them with a toxin... that eventually kills them."
 
I am a non-trad and interviewed at a school that I hated from the moment I arrived in the city the night before. I thought the city was miserable, the school was run down when I saw it, and the student who lead our tour was seriously unusual and talked about Walmart at great length. I finally get to my faculty interview, and there is a girl in my group in there before me. I can hear that she and the female professor are in there chatting and laughing and running over time because they are now each other's best friends in the world, and I think "greeeat this is going to be a hard act to follow." So best friend in the world girl leaves and I go in. I am making jokes and trying to be charming, which has worked great with all my other interviews but this woman does not smile and starts in immediately with all these critical questions about bad grades I got 10 years earlier and why I want to be a doctor. She doesn't seem remotely impressed by anything I say, and she makes no comments and doesn't smile. Finally it comes to my turn to ask her questions, and all of my questions she doesn't know the answer to. She doesn't know about international health, and she doesn't know about any details of volunteer organizations, and she doesn't know about research. What she DOES know is that she used to be a professor at a much better and more prestigious med school in New York, where she is from, and apparently she moved to this med school in a different state because her husband got a job there, but she sounds super bitter and pissed off about it and wishes she were back at the other, far superior med school in New York, which is also a far superior state. Meanwhile she is getting annoyed with all my questions that she knows nothing about. Finally I downgrade into the old standby: "what is your opinion about how well non-traditional applicants do here" and she brightens right up and launches into a long explanation of how some do really badly and it definitely depends on the student, and how people who got a bad grade in chemistry when they first took it ten years previously probably will suck big time in med school and should not be doctors (I exaggerate but only slightly). We had nothing in common, and I am pretty sure each of us thought the other was a total loser. Needless to say I got waitlisted.
 
Kfire326 said:
Just rememered this one:

Interviewer: What do you like to do on your spare time, you know, to relax?
Me: Actually I'm a big movie fan, especially foreign films.
Interviewer: Really? My wife is really into foreign films. Do you go and rent them? Or do you try to catch them in the movies? or In New York City?
Me: I download them...
Interviewer: Oh... Okay...

--> waitlist. It was my first interview of the season, and it was with the dean... i was nervous! lol
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I love this thread. I think this one is my favorite:laugh:
 
The "Who, me?" contribution to this thread is possibly the funniest thing I have ever read in my life. Anyway, here's mine:

Interviewer: So, tell me about your experience volunteering at _____.

Me: blah blah blah...and you know, I don't really think of medicine as anything but a career, just a job, you know? I mean, there are plenty of ways to help people, plenty of other jobs that you can do if you're interested in human biology. It's just a career, really. I'd probably be happy doing plenty of other things, too...blah blah blah, back to topic.

Interviewer: I see.

Me: (Not sure why I was compelled to randomly talk about how medicine is not all that special, right in the middle of a perfectly good answer to a perfectly easy question.)

(Accepted)
 
oh, and some gems from my student interview:

Interviewer: I see you graduated three years ago.

Me: Yes, I grew up a lot in those three years. I don't think I would have been ready for med school right out of college. I don't know how or why these kids go straight to med school never having experienced the real world, at 22 years old...

Interviewer: I'm in one of those six-year high school to med school programs. I'm 20.

Me: ...for me, personally, of course. It was the best choice for me. For me. Personally.
 
Richspiders07 said:
Later in the interview:

Interviewr: So why do you think you've gotten so many interviews?

Me: [in a totally joking manner] I hope its not because i'm Hispanic.
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Hahahahah... hilarious! They need to lighten up if they didn't find that at least chuckle-worthy
 
My interview at EVMS went something like this (thankfully, I hated the school so I didn't really care)
Italics are what I was thinking, block is what actually came out of my mouth.

Interviewer: How do you react to stress?
Me: Okay, I'm ready for this. I try to meditate and think about positive outcomes. I have bad dreams about piloting a spaceship into the sun. What the hell did I just say?
Interviewer: (nervous laugh) Is falling into the sun hot?
Me: Make a joke! Make a joke! No, I usually wake up right after everyone else in the ship burns to death. Dear god, what is wrong with me?

later on..
Interviewer: Would you help a patient who wanted to end their life?
Me: Sure. I believe in the patient's right to choose. Who am I, Dr. Kevorkian?
 
Not an interview, but during a visit to a medical school I was speaking with one of the PhD professors and when he found out where I attend school he asked me what I thought of Dr ________ (our premed advisor). Mind you the assistant dean of admissions was standing next to me.

Prof: "So what do you think of Dr. _________?"
Me: "You know him?"
Prof: "You could say that...."
Me: "Do you want me to be polite or do you want my honest unabashed opinion of him?"
Asst Dean: "Basically you want to know whether you should lie or tell the truth?"
Me (in my head): "****"
Me (out loud): "No sir, I just was curious if I was being asked what I thought of him on a personal or professional level"
Prof: "Both. Give me your honest opinion."
Me: "Well, I find him to be a slimy and uncouth little bastard. He tends to browbeat anyone who doesn't kiss his feet and he lies incessantly."
Asst Dean: "Wow...."
Prof: "He was a grad school classmate of mine."
Me: "Oh...." *balls retract into my pelvis*
Prof: "Don't worry, I agree completely with your opinion"
*whew*

:laugh:
 
interviewer: so, what do you read for fun?
me: ummmm... uhhhhh.... read??? (with a deer in the headlights look) i uh.... read the newspaper sometimes? and i read textbooks... for school...

i consider myself minimally literate.
 
(The interviewer was very old and a Professor for 1st year med students in Biochem I think)

Interviewer: Can you tell me who did research on receptive fields with the cat retina?
Me: Yes, Steven Kuffler.
Interviewer (Impressed, starts smiling): Good job. So what are your long term goals?
Me: Well, while I'm young I'd like to be very active and work with my hands. But eventually I'd like to become a Professor, perhaps when I get old and start to lose my touch.
Interviewer (Smile instantly faded): ...
 
This one happened to me recently and may or may not end up having cost me a spot at a school I'd love to go to.

Interviewer (PhD Immunologist): So tell me about what you wanted to do as a kid when you grew up, and how that changed into you wanting to do medicine today.

Me: Well, when I was a little kid the very first thing I wanted to be was a virologist.

Interviewer: *Suddenly interested* A virologist?

Me: Yeah. This was around the time that a lot of the discoveries about the pathogenesis of HIV were being made, and My dad used to read all these articles in Science and his medical journals, then try to explain them to me. It was pretty simplified of course, but he told me about CD4 and T lymphocytes, macrophages and antigen-presenting cells: all that good stuff. Then I would think about it and try to come up with ways of going about curing AIDs, and the logic puzzle aspect of that was a lot of fun, so I decided I was going to become a virologist.

Interviewer: You're honestly telling me the first thing you wanted to do was cure AIDS?

Me: Actually I always imagined myself working for the Army or CIA or something, designing bioweapons. That seemed like it would be much more interesting.

*World's longest pause*

Me: What? C'mon, I was like six, I didn't know what I was talking about.

*World's second longest pause*

Interviewer: So... how'd you get from wanting to develop biological weapons to wanting to be a doctor?

I guess childhood aspirations of commiting crimes against humanity aren't the amusing anecdote that I thought they were. 🙄
 
Retro Virus said:
This one happened to me recently and may or may not end up having cost me a spot at a school I'd love to go to.

Interviewer (PhD Immunologist): So tell me about what you wanted to do as a kid when you grew up, and how that changed into you wanting to do medicine today.

Me: Well, when I was a little kid the very first thing I wanted to be was a virologist.

Interviewer: *Suddenly interested* A virologist?

Me: Yeah. This was around the time that a lot of the discoveries about the pathogenesis of HIV were being made, and My dad used to read all these articles in Science and his medical journals, then try to explain them to me. It was pretty simplified of course, but he told me about CD4 and T lymphocytes, macrophages and antigen-presenting cells: all that good stuff. Then I would think about it and try to come up with ways of going about curing AIDs, and the logic puzzle aspect of that was a lot of fun, so I decided I was going to become a virologist.

Interviewer: You're honestly telling me the first thing you wanted to do was cure AIDS?

Me: Actually I always imagined myself working for the Army or CIA or something, designing bioweapons. That seemed like it would be much more interesting.

*World's longest pause*

Me: What? C'mon, I was like six, I didn't know what I was talking about.

*World's second longest pause*

Interviewer: So... how'd you get from wanting to develop biological weapons to wanting to be a doctor?

I guess childhood aspirations of commiting crimes against humanity aren't the amusing anecdote that I thought they were. 🙄
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I just read this whole thread and god this is so funny. The who, me guy was pretty funny. And this dude im quoting is also hillarious lol.

I hope your not middle eastern dude :laugh:
 
At a state school interview this cycle:

Me: (I was talking about why I wanted to go to the school) Oh, and I know two med students who say that the school does well protecting it's students from scutwork -
Interviewer: Oh yeah thats a touchy subject for me personally. Last year we had to have meetings with several students to "change their philosophies" so to speak -

I didn't want to cut him off but I did NOT like where this was going, so

Me: Oh, yeah, and so anyway thats a great thing about the school, its something that can make or break the 3rd year (oh christ, i thought)
Interviewer: *looking at me*
Me: I know I should be careful bringing that subject up, I dont want anyone to get the wrong idea about me, I'm not averse to doing favors at all (oh sh1t now he thinks I consider routine 3rd year stuff to be "favors")... Uh WORK, i mean, I'm not averse to doing work. I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea.

Basically I think mentioning scutwork at all is a no win situation. All they hear is scut and they think this bastard is gonna make trouble.
 
wow. thank you for this thread so I am not bored at work.

A friends story: on an interview, there was a girl who looked a bit too made up for a medical school interview- but a very attractive and nice girl. apparently her interviewer asked "Do people think you're stupid because of the way you look?"

wow.

one of my own stories....

I: Whats the most difficult course you had in college?
Me: organic chemistry
I: why was it difficult for you?
Me: blah blah blah answer....
I: why do you think we make premeds take organic chemistry?
Me: <<uhhhhh.... *&$!, don't know... uhhhh>> uh, so that they're successful in biochemistry courses later on?
I: you really think that you need organic chemistry to be a doctor?
Me: .... no.....?
I: so why do we make you take it?
Me: because its a challenging course and it separates students who are willing to put in the work from students who arent?
I: not really, you're close though...
Me: To make premed students familiar with failure?
I: hahaha <glances at my application>. no. what else?
Me: uhh.... ummm.... because.... its a....? I don't really know...?
I: <<gives me his version of the correct answer>> You know, 20 years ago, if you didn't have straight A's in organic chemistry, you shouldn't even have bothered applying to medical school. no one would have accepted you.
Me: <<jaw drops, and I STARE>>
I: don't worry, its not like that anymore. <<looks at my app again>>

wow. still waiting to hear from that one...
 
As much as I have enjoyed reading these mightily amusing posts, I pray that none of us have noteworthy contributions to make this season!

Bioweapons to curing aids? Man!
 
I guess childhood aspirations of commiting crimes against humanity aren't the amusing anecdote that I thought they were.
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Could be worse, I am waiting to have one of my interviewers find out I wrote a play about the Wannsee Conference (for educational purposes) and starred in it as Reinhard Heydrich. It will be my luck it will happen at MSSM. :laugh:

I for some reason always wind up getting typecast in the role of the Nazi (went out for the role of Peter in Diary of Anne Frank and wound up as the Gestapo leader), or some other bad guy (the lead in Dracula, Iago in Othello, etc).
 
Man, all it takes is one bad answer then your screwed for the rest of the interview unless you have really good composure.
 
bumpity bump
 
Interviewer: So what do you think is the greatest health problem facing the U.S. in the near future?

Me: [launch into discourse about the exponential increase in the elderly population, implosion of social security/pensions, etc., but then I start going on a tangent discussing my research paper on cognitive changes in aging, particularly memory loss, lo and behold, I completely lose track of what my original train of thought was]

Me: So...oh boy, where was I going with this...

Interviewer: I bet psychoanalysts would be having a field day with you now.

Luckily we had a good laugh about it. I mean, we did start off the interview talking about Finding Nemo for a good 10 minutes.
 
So I was at an interview at one of the two state schools in my state. My first interview went really well (at least I think so) and the second one was going much the same way. The interview is winding down and I can tell the interviewer is making a few last notes.

Interviewer: So I see that you live in [city where other in-state med school is] and your dad attended [that med school]. I'm guessing that it will be your first choice school then, right?
Me: Well, no. Not necessarily. I really haven't decided between this school and that one yet. Honestly, I'm almost hoping to get rejected by one of you so that the decision is made for me!
Interviewer: *furious scribbles on the page, then flips the file closed* Well, thanks for coming in.

Geez. It wasn't until I was out in the hall by myself that I realized I had just about asked to be rejected for my convenience. Hope that one doesn't come back to bite me...
 
LikeClockWork said:
So I was at an interview at one of the two state schools in my state. My first interview went really well (at least I think so) and the second one was going much the same way. The interview is winding down and I can tell the interviewer is making a few last notes.

Interviewer: So I see that you live in [city where other in-state med school is] and your dad attended [that med school]. I'm guessing that it will be your first choice school then, right?
Me: Well, no. Not necessarily. I really haven't decided between this school and that one yet. Honestly, I'm almost hoping to get rejected by one of you so that the decision is made for me!
Interviewer: *furious scribbles on the page, then flips the file closed* Well, thanks for coming in.

Geez. It wasn't until I was out in the hall by myself that I realized I had just about asked to be rejected for my convenience. Hope that one doesn't come back to bite me...
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ahahaha, such arrogance, ouch!
 
Fiddlergirl said:
My interview at EVMS went something like this (thankfully, I hated the school so I didn't really care)
Italics are what I was thinking, block is what actually came out of my mouth.

Interviewer: How do you react to stress?
Me: Okay, I'm ready for this. I try to meditate and think about positive outcomes. I have bad dreams about piloting a spaceship into the sun. What the hell did I just say?
Interviewer: (nervous laugh) Is falling into the sun hot?
Me: Make a joke! Make a joke! No, I usually wake up right after everyone else in the ship burns to death. Dear god, what is wrong with me?

later on..
Interviewer: Would you help a patient who wanted to end their life?
Me: Sure. I believe in the patient's right to choose. Who am I, Dr. Kevorkian?
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dang girl! :laugh: your answer was completely random

Family Guy can sure use this :laugh::laugh:
 
Fiddlergirl said:
My interview at EVMS went something like this (thankfully, I hated the school so I didn't really care)
Italics are what I was thinking, block is what actually came out of my mouth.

Interviewer: How do you react to stress?
Me: Okay, I'm ready for this. I try to meditate and think about positive outcomes. I have bad dreams about piloting a spaceship into the sun. What the hell did I just say?
Interviewer: (nervous laugh) Is falling into the sun hot?
Me: Make a joke! Make a joke! No, I usually wake up right after everyone else in the ship burns to death. Dear god, what is wrong with me?

later on..
Interviewer: Would you help a patient who wanted to end their life?
Me: Sure. I believe in the patient's right to choose. Who am I, Dr. Kevorkian?
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HA!:laugh:
 
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