Guest Bartending Debut

I made my bartending debut last night at Fashion 40 Lounge!

It was a lot of fun, I got to mix a variety of drinks which was really fun and a decent chunk of people from different parts of my life came out!

The most surprising was Nigel, Yi-Jin and Jayati, I hadn't seen most of them since HS, so that was really nice to see them and catch up!

I even managed to make $86?! :)

NBC Page Program Interview

Today I had my final round paneled interview for the NBC Page program!

There were 5 of us, all girls, and the panel - the Page Program Manager, Page Program Coordinator and Page Program Intern.  Two of the girls were from Syracuse University, one from NYU, the other from Pepperdine and me from Fordham.

The interview consisted of of 3 parts:
Part 1: Group Interview
This part was surprisingly short, they only asked us 1 question:  What is the biggest risk you've taken and what did you learn from it?

Part 2: Individual Interview
This part was short as well, about 15 minutes.  They asked me to tell them about my different internships and why I wanted to be a page and why NBC.

Part 3: Personal Presentaitons
Each of us gave 2 minute presentations about ourselves.  While singing and dancing was not allowed, the usage of creativity and props was highly encouraged.  I had brought a TON of props - the cap from my cap & gown, a notebook, voice recorder, debate timer, a CD and most importantly my scientific calculator (which I don't think Natasha has seen before, based on her facial expression, lol).

Not surprisingly, all of the girls at the interview were very qualified and really wanted the job.  And surprisingly, I was the only MBA grad there, and probably the oldest one there!  All in all, the interview was very laid back and a lot of fun!

Worse Interview Everrr

I had the worst interview everrr today.

This was a round 2, and the 3 of 3 people I had to met.  I was supposed to see her the first time I went, but she left early that day, so I had to go in just to see her.  Everything was going well with the interview, she was asking me about past work experiences, and things like that.

Then she asked me a really hard analytical question: How many stations are there in the subway station.  Unsure, I simply said 150 stations, then changed my answer to 15 lines imes 16 stations.  She then said, what about the stations that multiple train stations stop at.  Needless to say with the complexity of the train stations, I was stumped and it showed. Eventually I came up to the answer of 160 stations.

Her follow up question, after only 1 question outside of the who are you questions was "do you have any questions for me?"  Meaning that the interview was over...  She then proceeded to ask me, why should/shouldn't we hire you?"  and "Let me walk you to the door."

The entire interview took about 30 mins of the usual alotted 60 minute interviews... Needless to say, it the interview went poorly and I bombed the interview.