<p>What do you think were the toughest questions that you got? And did you get the feeling, in general, that they were trying to rip apart your thesis/assertions or just try to get you to expand on your ideas?</p>
<p>It wasn’t agressive at all. It was more, expand upon my ideas. But one of my essays was really weak, so its thesis is now dearly departed.</p>
<p>Obstinate, now I worry that my Long interview means the worse.</p>
<p>That’s because y’all are worriers. I swear, if your interviewers even told you “Great job, you’re in!” you’d worry that the interview never happened and you’d just been speaking to a hologram instead of the human version of your interviewer…</p>
<p>Relaaaax! (:</p>
<p>you guys. i can’t wait til may. this is just mean.</p>
<p>^me either. I can’t even wait for my interview…which is in ~20 days.</p>
<p>Gah, my interview is in exactly one week. I googled my interviewer and I’m now very terrified/in awe of him, haha.</p>
<p>oh, decisions
my heart quakes in fear.
embeezy, you are right about the worrying. When I got my finalist status email- I was in shock so I had to call the office to make sure it was true. Then I started believing TASP was just a made up program. I believed that for exactly four days. Then, I was convinced I was a finalist accident and they hadn’t actually meant me, but some other person. It wasn’t until the interviewer contacted me that I actually believed I was a finalist.Haha.</p>
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<li>^damn. </li>
<li>^^don’t worry about that. i was terrified of my interviewer too, but he turned out to be really easy to talk to. Also, since interviewers tend to be incredibly intelligent, you learn a lot from the interview too, which is fun. =)</li>
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<p>Hey everyone!
So, my best friend and I are both finalists, but neither of us has been contacted about an interview yet (and its almost april!). Should I be worried about this? And is there anyone else from texas with this problem?</p>
<p>I just got back from my interview! It was so much better than the TASS interview last year. And the interviewers were extremely nice. The pussycat dolls were playing during the interview, it got kinda awkward lol. But anyway, they said that notifications were going to be sent out by April 27th.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone! And don’t forget to make eye contact during the interview :D</p>
<p>That. Is. So. Soon!
panic panic panic panic</p>
<p>@ anyone who’s had an interview already:
Did the topics discussed in your interview veer off a lot from the essays you wrote? Like into current events or into something really obscure?</p>
<p>@andrea33</p>
<p>I’m from Texas (Houston area), and I was contacted about a week ago, which I thought was pretty late in the game. You may want to call.</p>
<p>So guys I had my interview yesterday. I was originally supposed to have it April 4th but because I was going out of town I had it moved up. It was one of the worst experiences in my life. I was definitely over prepared. I had gotten a nice formal suit and heels and even gotten a haircut. I reviewed through my application and gone back and forth with my brother and sister, and they played the role of the interviewer. I get out of my home early, and I’m at Starbucks (where the interview was being held), and I realized that I had given the interviewers the wrong address to another Starbucks where I didn’t know where it was. So then I start panicking and then we ask the women inside the Starbucks where the other one is and they tell me the wrong thing and at the same time I’m trying to call him and some lady picks up and then she’s like no I’m not him,etc. Mind you, the women at Starbucks kept thinking it was for a job at Starbuck’s, and I’m like no, we’re just doing it at Starbucks! And they kept asking what it was for, and I said it was for a summer program, and they were so confused like “starbucks has a summer program?” Lord, help me. So I call his number again, no answer. So we’re driving around and my brother’s trying to find the directions from his friend on the phone who’s being really dumb with the directions so we end up at the wrong place and we keep driving, then finally I get a call from my interviewer. I realize when I get home that I switched two numbers in his telephone number, had not even given him my telephone number and he instead called my home number to get my cell phone number. So we drove over to that Starbucks and I was in this whole frantic mood. And I see my interviewers in converse shorts/jeans. I think my interviewer was kind of awkward, I went in to shake is hand and he was like oh oh oh yeah. So the actual interview was terrible they really tore two of my essays apart, and also misinterpreted them as well. I feel like the only good response was my last one where they were like “hmm, that makes sense.” And I was like ohh Thank God. Luckily my interviewers were actually late themselves, so yeah, but everything that could’ve gone wrong, did go wrong. And at the end they were pretty eager to head out, i dont know maybe because my interview was about an hour and fifteen minutes. Good luck, you guys. Hopefully you won’t be as embarrassing as I was.</p>
<p>Well, thats weird. I’m from college station (which is about an hour away), so i sort of figured that my interview would be in houston or austin. I’ll probably call sometime next week.</p>
<p>aw, cheeekysunshine, I’m sure it didn’t go as badly as you thought it did. Being over-prepared is definitely better than being under-prepared. And I’ve heard that they always pretty much tear everybody’s essays up.</p>
<p>Wow ANOTHER year of potential TASPers are doing interviews already?</p>
<p>I’m old. Cherish this.</p>
<p>@Parallelular Thank you for your kind words. How did your interview go?</p>
<p>^It hasn’t yet, actually. But it’s soonish and I’m pretty jittery. </p>
<p>^^“cherish” might not be exactly the right word for what I’m feeling right now. :P</p>
<p>I had mine Saturday. It was absolutely fine, other than me getting there a few minutes early and the interviewer still needing time to look over my application, so I just sat nearby and waited lol. </p>
<p>There was only one interviewer (apparently ideally there are two so one can ask questions while the other writes up a report), so there were a few pauses while the interviewer wrote down stuff, but nothing awkward. We pretty much just ran through my application and essays, expanding on my theses and trying to pin down answers to questions I had posed but left unanswered. It took almost exactly an hour.</p>
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<p>^This (minus the personal details from the original post). Exactly this.</p>
<p>@Paralellular
Oooo goodluck.
I wish I could give you some tips, but who knows how your interview will be like. I definitely didn’t anticipate my interview to be anything like the way it was. Also, the person I stayed in contact with didn’t exactly tell me there were two interviewers. Fun, fun, fun for me. There were also random hobos/thuggish people screaming and being obnoxious right next to us and it was pretty windy outside, so there were a lot of annoyances/distractions.</p>
<p>Thanks! I will try very hard not to be an embarrassment, but no promises 
That really sucks, a distracting atmosphere always makes it harder to think clearly. </p>
<p>^^yay for non-awkward interview stories!</p>