i can’t believe that i am spending my saturday night lying on the bed! thanks to my dearest sister for the infection of stomach flu – it suck balls to be having this damn sickness – you just have no mood to eat or do anything – you just want to lie down and roll around so that you can get this unnecessary air in your tummy out – while i was cleaning my room i saw the interview forms i had when i was being called for concurrent or double degree programme for law – haha!
it was definitely one of the best interviews i’ve ever sat through!
to clarify, when i classify an interview as fantastic, it’s only because i felt that the interviewers were thorough and doing their job, i.e. the interview was very intense. not because everything went smoothly. in fact if everything went smoothly, i’d consider the interview to be way too boring.
anyways, there were two rounds of interviews, the first being conducted by the teaching staff and the latter being conducted by school alumni and lawyers. the former round of interview was simple enough, although i caused a stir when i mentioned my interest in medicine. haha! i was asked three times, in three different ways, what brought about my interest in the field. apart from that, i handled the most grueling interviewer with ease and was in control for almost the entire interview.
the second round of interview was more interesting. i swear that my interviewers were extremely smart people and i could tell straight away that every single action of mine was not only scrutinized, but psycho-analysed. i suspect one of them was actually a practising psychiatrist. hahah like what is he there for right – in any case, they really grilled me on all my opinions – on whether i thought abortion should be legalised, on whether i think stem cell research should be condoned. for most of the interview, i managed to smoke consistency, and i also suspect they could tell that smoking is an art not to be frowned upon. one of them commented that i came across as a cynic, and while i agreed, i said that i don’t impose changes on unwilling people.
the final bonus round came when i had to defend my place in the school when there were 3000+ applications but only 250 places. and while i knew that any answer i gave would be shot down with the response of “so does every student who applied”, i had to think fast and chose to take a risk. one that portrayed a highly self-confident image. and if i get rejected? only because they didn’t want people with too high of an opinion of themselves
hahah – the PAST
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