Inter-Views

My interviews always remind me of the joke where the interviewer asks the candidate, 'what is your weakness' and the candidate responds with ‘honesty’. Interviewer goes like, I don’t think being honest is a weakness and the candidate replies, 'I don’t give a shit to what you think'. Anyhow, here I am, stating some of my not-so-required honest encounters. 

The one where I didn't know it’s an interview:

This was the one where I thought I was having a meeting with a coach and I spoke my heart out about the subject I specialized in, my teachers, my institution and everything I could possibly talk about. I could have simply not said the names when he asked me if there are any teachers that I don’t like but Noo.

The one where I kept on talking about the things I can't do:

I had to fill a form which had 4 spaces to mention one's weaknesses, and I filled all of them. WHO DOES THAT!!

The one where I was told it’s just about interests and hobbies:

Interviewer: So you have got 4 GPA in both micro and macro economics, were you really good in these subjects?

Me: I was just okay, umm, our teacher was really good, um in terms of giving good grades.

Interviewer: And what about statistics?

Me: (In my head: O God, how do I explain it was the same teacher) I was okay. Umm the teachers were really good, we had short courses and they would just give good grades.

Interviewer: This essay, you wrote only 2 paragraphs. Why is that?

Me: I ran out of time, left essays for the last and started off with English portion with marking random options. (And I went quite after this)

Interviewer: One of your references said, you are an all rounder. So what interests do you have apart from academics?

Me: What? Me? All rounder. One of MY references said that? Oh I have no Idea. (I did tell him about my interests later, but the phase where I started thinking about who would have said that. phew)