met, talked, was fucking GRILLED for more than an hour on everything including things from my UNDERGRAD that i havent touched for more than THREE YEARS.
also gave me a problem to solve and present to him for a SECOND MEETING next week.
but overall i think it went pretty well and is PROMISING!
update: 2nd interview DONE
again was GRILLED like barbecue but good thing is not roasted like rotisserie chicken…
啊啊啊啊啊教授我求你撈我求你了求你了我什麼都會學什麼都能幹求求了我真的很好的你選我吧把我推薦給committee吧求你了
update: 3rd interview DONE
被架在火上炙烤。。。已經麻木了,習慣了,求求了。。。postdoc告訴我prof準備招2個新phd,求求了招我吧求求了求求了⋯⋯
OK HAD THIS INTERVIEW!!! i think it went pretty weeellllll????!!!!!!!!
possibly the first(????) applicant hes interviewing? he says hes conducting interviews until next monday and then he will make the decision to admit one (or two, if a grant gets approved later) student and send out unofficial offer/rejection emails to all interviewees by the first week of feb.
love the vibe of this prof. FINGERS CROSSED!!!!!!
今天腦中復盤昨天的面試想起來prof在講到他這幾天面試學生的安排時不僅僅說了下週一是他安排的面試最後一天,他還offhandedly說”assuming they all show up”,昨天我聽了就聽了,今天突然回想到這裡然後覺得不對,難道「prof郵件發面試邀請➡️學生積極回覆並set up時間」這個過程後還會有學生ghost掉prof的嗎???在美國工科phd申請一年比一年地獄的情況下真的會有人不show up嗎???開始好奇準時參加面試的比例大概是多少⋯⋯
還是說prof講這句話真的純粹就是開玩笑活躍氣氛,不具有分析價值⋯⋯🤔
哈?哈?哈?哈?接上回:
jan 22與此校prof no.1面試了一小時,我以為我表現得很好,並且他承諾二月第一週結束之前會給所有面試過的applicant發郵件告知他的錄取decision。我本週每天都沈浸在無法調理的焦慮中,隨著日子一天天過去,今天週五了我還沒hear back,於是焦慮得馬上要爆炸了,暗暗下定決心下週發郵件去問問。
結果!!!結果!!!!!反轉:
剛剛收到此校prof no.2(去年線下open house跟他當面聊過,他不僅自己是pi,並且還是phd admissions chair)的郵件,約我meeting。我???啊?所以現在是兩個prof來搶人嗎?他們之間互相通了氣所以prof no.1暫時沒辦法給我發郵件錄取/拒絕我???或者另一個可能是他找我約meeting不是為了收我當他的學生specifically,而是作為committee的代表來進行面試?
ANYWAY,我又活了!!!!!!
高興得太早了:是pi interview,只是這個prof no.2每年都很晚才來撈學生搞面試。感覺聊得還不錯,並且說後續還會找我chat,甚至可以線下見面聊。我現在已經習慣性把這種話當客套了,不管聽起來說得多麼真誠,總是不能全信的!就像之前prof no.1說好了二月第一週會給所有面試過的applicant發郵件告知面試結果一樣,這都第二周了我還沒hear back,並且現在也不太敢發郵件去問了,因為現在我算是也在prof no.2的魚池裡,哪裡好意思再去問我在prof no.1魚池裡的status。
就算no.1想要我,他現在也沒辦法給我哪怕informal offer,因為萬一後面no.2也要我而我也選no.2,那no.1豈不是浪費了一個名額;如果no.1想拒我,那我現在還不如不去問而是牢牢抓住no.2的後續面試機會。
我真不知道現在這情況該怎麼搞了,甚至覺得兩個pi都對我有興趣的局面十分尷尬,萬一他們都顧忌著對方而不敢100%選擇我怎麼辦(因為他們不是一個方向的,感覺他們互相不是很熟。
煩死了煩死了煩死了!
補兑,我這個spiraling心態要不得!這個情況應該挺常見的,只是我沒遇到過而已,太正常了!我不應該覺得這是一件值得焦慮的事,而是應該慶祝啊!這麼牛的學校裡這麼牛的program中這麼牛的兩個prof都選我面試了,我多牛啊!
所以這麼多面試什麼時候給我轉化成個offer看看⋯⋯
went, met, talked, toured lab (i think it’s just pure courtesy)
prof says he’ll try and finalize his decision by the end of this month so that’s like…in the next 3 days?? by this saturday??? he says i’ll hear from him.
i updated him on my other applications, he says it’s always good to have options which, obviously yes, but it’s no indication of how he thinks about my interviews with him…
真的太沒底了,我沒招了,現在人很麻,完全不知道他到底什麼態度,也不知道現在他池子裡有幾個人,不過按照他說的可能下週之前就能給我個痛快了吧。
@dreamball 也面了這麼幾個pi了,不管老登小登從來沒人跟我講我的排序(除了那個給我發遲來的rej email的prof,其他的要麼ghost要麼一直吊著不給準信(informal offer都沒有),就看這個prof能不能過幾天給我個痛快了。。(最好是給我offer嚇死我!
以及此校和之前那個新ap校的offer應該都是rolling在往外發,我已經在小紅書看到好幾個已經拿到offer的人。。
THANK YOU