Zhanga: September 25, 2007

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 (2 comments)

I biked to East today for an interview. The biking really sucked. When you bike around on main campus where there are lots of obstacles, turns, and people, top speed is not that big a deal because you rarely hit it. Biking on a long stretch of straight road, though, really makes me impatient with the speed of the crappy bike I have. I think I could go a full three times faster (peak) with my crappy Walmart mountain bike.

The interview was for becoming an econ tutor. I walked in and the lady asked me some general questions, like "What is the worst thing that could happen during a tutoring session and how would you handle it?" and "What do you expect to gain from tutoring?" and more. The routine for each question basically went like this:

  1. I would begin my answer and talk for 15 seconds to a minute. ("Well, I think one thing I'd gain from tutoring is that I would know the material better myself.")
  2. Before I'm anywhere close to being done with my answer, she'll start talking about stuff that's kind of related... and go on for 15 minutes.
  3. Rinse, repeat.

So my interview was essentially me giving very vague, uninformative answers followed by the interviewer talking endlessly about... things. It was entertaining to me though, and I guess I learned a lot. For example, apparently some kid asked her (the tutoring program coordinator), while crying, whether he/she could meet with his/her tutor again later.

I did get the job though, but that's only because she was really desperate for more tutors (that was one of the things I learned from her random talking).

3:47AM

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how many utils did you gain from your interview?

Gene on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 8:58 PM

less bikes, more computers

pat on Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 1:48 AM

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