I was also in the UMich one. You guys weren’t ditzy girls and macho men—you were smart, interesting individuals who I learned a lot from in the short time we spent together. Though I liked all of the other students, I personally hated every second of the program and was ecstatic when I got to leave. The program (both in the house and in class) felt simultaneously like a prison, the initiation process of a cult, and a Soviet re-education camp… a friend of mine, encapsulating my experience of it entirely, called it “a combination of 1984, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and the lower levels of Dante’s Inferno.” You probably know who I am from that, lol, unless I hid my utter misery last summer better than I think I did. What about it did you like? Did you feel stifled, inundated with propaganda, constantly emotionally manipulated, like opinions/hypotheses were simply presented as facts and we weren’t allowed to discuss them, and like you were purposefully deprived of privacy to make your brain more pliable? I know I did.
Well, I’m glad you had a good experience even though mine felt like being cast into the worst circles of hell with a slowly constricting noose around my neck.
I had mine last Saturday and most of my peers have had them in the past 2 weeks. I would not worry about it because I know some interviewers are busy at the moment because of everything going on rn. Maybe try to email tasp-queries again or if you haven’t already. Good luck!
@yallpleasehelp@bigstickenergy My interview was 1 hour long and I had 3 interviewers. The structure varies for everyone. Mine was barely on my essays and more about current events and my experiences. Some people had short interviews(30 mins) and it was only on essays. My friend had a lot of questions asked about the “Favorites” section. The only way to really prepare is to be yourself lol. (practice with a friend maybe) The questions are not the typical job interview questions. It rlly is about critical thinking
@mid123 Some say it’s based on how many Telluride Associates are in the area. I was surprised to even get a different interviewer than I did last year for TASS, but apparently there are a lot where I’m from. Mine were professors at the nearby universities and one was a grad student.
Hey! Has everyone here had there interviews? I finished my TASS interview last week and now I’m eagerly waiting for results! My interviewer said late April/early May but I just can’t wait, fingers crossed!