Interviews

[jethrien]

Works like this. If you want questions of your own to answer, comment on this post.

From shnayder -

1. Are you going to let me read your thesis? You can upload it to the same place as the draft :)

Not until after Dean's Date. It's huge, and my computer is dying by degrees and no longer seems capable of opening the file. So I can't convert it to pdf. I'll try to get it converted and into my public folder or something in a few days, but right now I'm still too busy. Sorry.

2. What are you most looking forward to after graduation?

Being able to spend the entire weekend doing fun stuff and not feeling guilty for not doing homework.

3. What are you most dreading after graduation?

I'm terrified that I'm going to find out that my job is unrewarding and has bad hours and hate the commute. I'm worried that I'll never really find a job that I actually enjoy, and that I'll spend the rest of the mornings of my life not wanting to get out of bed.

4. Stealing from Pat again: What was your first impression of me?

I'm not sure I totally remember, honestly. I had you and Todd lumped in my head together for the first week or two, since you were both geeky engineering types who seemed like nice guys and hung around each other a lot.

I get the feeling that most people don't really remember first impressions that well.

5. Should I come to Princeton for dead week or go hiking until wednesday?

I don't know. I've never actually done all the band activities, so you know better than I whether these things interest you. I'm going to be in and out, and I'm not really sure I can offer you my floor for more than a day or two. Do you have somewhere else to stay?

Comments

[shnayder.livejournal.com]

1. Ok, fair enough :) But I do want to figure out how clocks work eventually.

5. I could always camp out in the institute woods, or in the equad :) But I'm sure I could find someone to let me crash with them.

[saxbabe.livejournal.com]

Ooo, another interview to commit to...

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

1. What have you been up to recently?
2. Are you coming to Reunions?
3. What is one of your favorite pieces to perform (voice, sax, whatever)?
4. What was the worst mistake you made at Princeton (that you're willing to admit semi-publically)?
5.What advice do you have for my first year in the real world?

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

I'll sign up...interview me! It will distract me from my work!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

1. Stealing from shnayder, who stole from Pat - what was your first impression of me?
2. If you were choosing a major now, what would you pick?
3. If you could tell your 13-year-old self one piece of advice, what would it be?
4. If you were going to choose another instrument to start playing, what would you choose?
5. What year has been the best year of your life so far?

[dushai.livejournal.com]

my computer is dying by degrees and no longer seems capable of opening the file

You do have it backed up somewhere else, right?

-dushai, Disaster Prevention Squad

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Yes. Twice, actually. Once on the University servers, and burned to a cd as well.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

So do you want questions, or are you just kindly looking out for my welfare?

[dushai.livejournal.com]

Well, my intention was just to kindly look out for your welfare, but if you have some questions in mind, then fire away! (Or if you're too busy to think up some good ones, then there's no need.)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

1. Given that you've been out in the real world for a bit, what's some advice you wish you'd known when you graduated?
2. What was your favorite Princeton memory?
3. Why did you choose Princeton?
4. What was the last cd you listened to?
5. If an asteroid was going to hit the Earth tomorrow, what would you spend the last day doing?

[dushai.livejournal.com]

Responded in my latest post. Thanks for the fun questions!

[fairylane.livejournal.com]

I might as well ask for questions...it's at least an active form of procrastination.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

1. What is your favorite musical?
2. (The perennial favorite) What was your first impression of me?
3. If you had to live in one city, anywhere in the world, for the rest of your life, where would it be?
4. What would you like to be remembered for 10 years after you die?
5. What's the most detailed, strange dream you remember having?

[fairylane.livejournal.com]

1. Is amazingly difficult. I love so many musicals. I guess I'd go with The Last Five Years, because it's so simple (two people!) yet has a really interesting concept and is gorgeous. Ragtime, I also have to mention.

2. Weirdly, I can't remember first meeting you. I have a feeling it was at my first Wildcats audition, which I bombed because I had no idea what sound anyone was looking for. So, I'm sure my first impression must have been "oh my god they're all judging me I'm so scared." Thankfully, I believe I've gotten to know you a lot better this year especially, and while I never quite succeeded in becoming a Wildcat, I see you as a good friend, not as a judge. :)

3. Toronto. New York would be okay, and I guess I would be happy in London or Paris as well, but Toronto is my home. It's a wonderful city in a wonderful country, and I think in my heart it's where I'll always want to be.

4. I want to be remembered as a good person who liked to give, a good friend and (hopefully) wife, a wacky, creative, funny person who was more often happy than not. And I want to be remembered as the writer of the best musical and/or play of my generation. (Little ambitious, but it's what I want).

5. You know, I have a ton of strange dreams. I think at the moment I'd say either that dream I had in eighth grade about a school shooting in my class, mostly because I remember it from grade eight, and because it had a role for every single member of my class. (Weirdly enough, it was both scary and funny). More recently, there was a dream I had before the 2000 Presidential election. Al Gore and GWB were having the final debate, and the moderator was asking questions, and it was normal. But then, the moderator said, "Mr. Vice President, why do you wear your sunglasses at night?" and Gore pulled out a pair of sunglasses and started singing the Corey Hart song, with GWB harmonizing after the first verse. Mondo weird. I should probably stop now or I could keep going for a long time. (Final note: one of the funniest random details in one of my dreams to me was going to a museum opening with a band, but the museum wasn't rich enough to get The Who, so they hired The What).

Back to work!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

2. I'm glad.
4. The idea is to be ambitious.
5. I love it. I may steal the What for a story some day, with your permission. It's so very Terry Pratchett.

[moooshy.livejournal.com]

me me me

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

1. What's your favorite ride at Disney World?
2. What's your first memory with me in it?
3. What's your favorite thing about Penn?
4. If you could write for any publication in the world, what would it be?
5. What was your favorite class in high school? In college?

[moooshy.livejournal.com]

Oooh. I'm taking a break from reading the 12 books for my 8:30 am final to answer these.

1. I guess I'm partial to Mr. Toads. When Disney destroyed Mr. Toad, I was really upset. It's the first ride that I remember and also - your hand stamps glow in the dark on it.

2. Jr. High Band. I remember you at the winter concert, because you sat up front. I also think I went over your house to work with James on a project, so I met you then.

3. I really really like being in the city. I realized from being here that I don't like the 'burbs [Cherry Hill, Rochester] and I truly enjoy being able to SEPTA offcampus to basically do anything I want to do. Really, I am sooo happy I transferred and can't think of a better school for me.

4. I'd like to replace Miss Dowd at the Times. The timing would be right, if things plan out the way I'd like them to. Having the op-ed space there would be amazing. Or..um...the Joel Stein position at Time.

5. High school - Ms. Rochhino's English 2H. She taught me how to write [and not certain words in my writing] and I listen to her advice to this day, though I hated it at the time. Or band, which shaped me. College - I wrote a documentary last semester. The teacher won the National Book Award - he's like, the most involved person I've met here and I truly value having been able to work with him.

[moooshy.livejournal.com]

that should read [not USE certain words in my writing]

Ironic, considering.

1. Where will you be in 5 years?
2. What's your first memory with me in it?
3. What's your favorite thing about Princeton?
4. If you weren't an engineer, what would you be?
5. Why are there so many song about rainbows - and what's on the other side?

[moooshy.livejournal.com]

Oh, and what I don't like about Penn: Everyone knows who I am. It was nice, at first, but now it's like - sometimes you're at a party and you don't want people to come up and inquire into your personal affairs. I get stopped most days on the walk. I guess it's a big school, but not really, because everyone seems to fall into the same patterns.

Also, too many people who just seem to have jobs in Daddy's company when they graduate Wharton. They suck.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I've been out two years and I'm still waiting for that no guilt on the weekend thing to happen.

OK, that's my own fault.