Thursday, October 4, 2007

Interview, frisbee, and random thinking

My first interview can't be worse. The interviewer is a middle aged woman from mayo clinic named Ms Fett. She said 6 years ago she changed from technique position to a management position. She let me introduce myself a bit first. So I began to talk my background and experience in using software. She then stopped me, asked how many interviews I had had and said she wanna I just answer her questions.

Then she asked my to give an example of overcoming some tough problems. I began to describe a theoretical problem and she asked the practical use. I gave some ambiguous guessing and she's not happy.

Then she asked me to give an example of avoiding some problems by paying attention to details. I had no clue how to answer that and came up something she said which is totally not at the point.

At last she want me to give an example again, about I did something above my motivation level. I gave an example during my teaching assistant experience. She's finally satisfied with me once.

Surprisingly she gave me a lot of feedback and interviewing tips. It seems someone in career services talked with her and she did it as charity. I at least realized the improving space of my interview skill is much much wider than I thought.
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Yesterday there's a campus Frisbee game, and I surprisingly saw Stu in the opponent team. I did not wear my glasses then, but I realized more and more familiar faces in that team: Jessie, Missy, Danial, Jason and more. I played with them all June and July in Grand Field! I thought I can hardly see them after the summer ended. Now I saw them again. I felt so happy. I know them better even than my own teammates.

They had a big and up beating team. They had a team song, they all wore short skirts(including guys of course, Jason even gave a round dance when I praised his nice shirt), they even had a ceremony during the middle which reminded my some religious gestures.

Our team adore simple and neat. We just play as hard as we can. We scored first and they caught up closely. I knew how good they are, but I underestimated my teammates. We were even better. We were always 1 or 2 points ahead of them.

During the second half, they fought back. They scored consecutively and was 2 scores ahead. We scored again. And the game ended as 9:10. But we will definitely meet them again. Since both of our teams never lost. And they said they never win that hard.

On the way back, Karla suggested me enter her team in spring. I told her I will be done in December. I had never felt that regretful for leaving the campus soon. I finally found my game here, but I had to leave. And those friends, I hope I can stay here for tens of years and play Frisbee with them. A little blue.
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I just decided to show my birthday including my birth year in the facebook and something happened. Some guy who used to sent me messages stopped doing that. I was not sure whether he suddenly became busy or he just found out I'm older than he expected and lost interest to talk to me. I never hide my age. He just made bad judgments from my appearances. I don't wanna be bothered by some guy who's bothered by my age.

2 comments:

Cee~ said...

Hi W, I also got interviewed by her twice. She's something isn't she? She does give a lot of feedback and I like her for that. Although I also thought she's a bit intimidating. But I kinda want to be like her in the future.

PS: I also lack the ability to explain in details... :P

Ms. W said...

Ya, she's capable and aggressive. I was embarrassed but I like her.