Many programs pieichdi before accepting you, you are invited for a weekend to "know the faculty." There are several breakfasts and lunches, tour of the laboratories / offices, presentations. It is extremely useful, both for faculty and for students. For example, last year came a boy who went to mourn at a meeting the next night and made some jokes about killing Californians. Not accepted. Before coming to Northwestern University, I went to a prospective students' weekend at another school. I arranged an interview with one teacher, who was not even very interested in what interested me. No I went to that school.
Well, now in eight Chicago Applicants to the program, and last night we went for a drink. The idea is that talks with them, identify potential psychos, sell a little program, and make them feel welcome. In those conversations, after discussing what they studied, they would like to investigate, and talk a little, very little, in your research, often a silence. It is natural: we are unknown, we do not necessarily fall well, and we need not be a topic of conversation. But it is uncomfortable: you are a bar, each standing with his beer in hand, go is violent means, and does not give to be left alone or only to return to prospie while chatting with your classmates. Well, in those silences, at least three
prospies told me-You know, I have a college buddy living in Argentina.
there too I do not know what to say: wait who knows? make a comment about the country? that makes me happy? then asked: "What is
she / he doing?
and the answer is
-oh, just chilling.
(not doing anything)
killing
This ends the conversation. I do not want to talk about Argentina, we can not talk about the activities of their friends (who are long-term tourists), and not want to seem unfriendly.
But I thought the perfect answer:
"Yeah, I Have a bunch of college buddies living in the States, too”.
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