Mixed Salad

Thanks to an overly aggressive, short, squat snot monster, I have been feeling a little out of sorts. Something attacked my head and has been holding on for dear life for the past week. I’m pretty sure it’s allergies, or it might be a vicious cold, but whatever it is, it’s made me lose my voice and left me sounding like I’ve been eating rocks for the past five months. It’s attractive.

Thus, the blogospheric absence.

Some neat things have happened, though. Last week, despite my charming voice dripping right through my nose, I scored a super saweet internship for the summer. Woot! I will be working with a local food magazine in an editorial position. Yeah, I’ll let you digest that for a second, as I still can’t believe my Aladdin-like fortune. SO pumped to get to try my hand at writing for the magazine, as well as learn some components behind administration and daily workings of a magazine. Psyched!

I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day at a double 30th birthday party, where crawfish and cocktails were on the menu. I haven’t participated in good ol’ fashion day drinking in a while, so this was truly a gem of an afternoon. The crawfish were finger-lickin’ delicious and the company was excellent as well.

I’ve been doing a lot of prep work for final paper writing. This is without-a-doubt the most thrilling part of my life. It involves scouring the bookshelves for interesting books to beef up my paper, and if you are lucky enough, you can be really sick while you’re doing it and annoy the pants off of everyone in the vicinity as you sniffle your way through the aisles, pawing all the books with your germy hands.

I went to the beach on Friday! I was about 80% through an assignment and my bum just would not sit on my desk chair anymore. So I packed up my dusty beach bag and headed to the beach for an hour and a half. It was amazing. I can just feel long summer afternoons at the beach right around the corner.

And, just because I love you, I’ll share this video with you. This is 100% Adam’s share, and I found it in my inbox this morning. Please give it a watch. It will blow your mind. I mean, once you get past minute 1, it’s game over. Let’s try to coordinate a flash mob to this effect. Our locations will be severely limited, as it has to be done in the dark, but I’m thinking movie theaters, parks at night, those restaurants that are blacked out so you can learn what it feels like to be visually impaired…

 

 

 

Could You Repeat The Question?

Apart from not even knowing exactly what kind of job to look for, one thing that makes me nervous about jumping into the market is the interview process. How do I make myself sound like the missing link in your über-successful company without bordering on cocky? Which materials are essential to bring? Will an employer even want to see the Portfolio I spent hours upon hours creating?

The best interview I had was for K-State Orientation Leader. It was, for the most part, a group interview. At one point we were required as a team to come up with a product to use on K-State’s campus and make a commercial trying to sell said product. Effectively, they wanted to see how well we could think on our toes and market positive aspects about the university. This job was one of my favorites. I loved sharing all the amazing things I love about KSU. GO CATS!!

On the flip side, the worst interview I ever had was with what turned out to be a highly-fundamentalist Christian summer camp. The interview started off well, then took a sharp turn toward uncomfortable, and finally ended with me being incensed at the hideous woman questioning me. I will spare you the gory details, but I quickly removed myself from the interview.

While checking out the “Freshly Pressed” on wordpress.com I came across this insane list of interview questions compiled by glassdoor.com. I’m all for spicing up the process and veering away from the drone of, “Tell me about a time when you had to be a leader,” but some of these are ridiculous! I have a feeling I would be walking out of any one of these interviews a little stumped.

 

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And you, my friends. Have you had absurd, baffling or perhaps hilarious questions asked to you during an interview?