I’ve been having absolutely loads buckets oodles of fun revising my post-doc and job applications. But it occurred to me that, despite that each sort of application has many requirements and wants you, as a candidate, to answer many different kinds of questions, there are a few they appear to have left out. Here are some such questions, with my answers (where appropriate) following, should anyone desire to know.
1. What is simultaneously the most delicious and the most disturbing thing you have ever eaten?
2. What is the one place you would never want to visit (again, or for the first time)?
3. Name an invention which does not (as yet) exist, but which you feel would benefit mankind immensely.
4. Whom do you consider your greatest nemesis, and why?
5. Invent a cocktail.
6. Suggest a headline for “The Onion.”
7. You’ve killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die. How did you do it?
8. Applications: Great invention, or greatest invention ever?
Answers
1. Poutain. (E.g.)
2. The bug-infested dorm room in the American House, adjacent to the Sorbonne.
3. Personality-stealing machine.
4. LJ; knows why already.
5. One part wine (any color) to one part bourbon: The banshee bomber. (Taster’s note: I think this would be irredeemably disgusting.)
6. WOMAN BECOMES PRESIDENT: HOLY FUCK.
7. Papercuts.
8. No comment.
1 Comment
September 25, 2008 at 3:57 pm
If only everyone I know who is “on the market” was having as much fun as you are… I hope they follow your example!