Post-interview reactions?

I've done that in interviews before. I don't even know how it happened?

Exactly...

In my second interview, I told the interviewer that I spoke jibberish in my earlier interview due to nervousness. They said that they were once in our position, and thus understand what happens in high pressure situations, and that they dont judge everything based on the interview for this reason. They then reassured me that it usually isn't as bad as the applicant remembers.

That's something I suppose...

The interviewers are really, really nice. I forgot what my questions were but I kept the flow going and I wish to be in that atmosphere again.


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Does anybody know the exact date people receive updates on their application (pools, rejections, offers etc.)?

I had my interviews at Cambridge last week...

Applied for Theology and Religious Studies and had an interview at Homerton and an interview at Girton

Does anyone else really have no idea whatsoever about how they did? I suppose some of it went well and there were some bits I feel like I messed up. The thing is when I said stupid things I felt that with some help from the interviewers I was able to correct myself mostly...

I don't know, it's really heard not to over-think it, especially as we have to wait so long to hear from them now

I'm getting a little freaked out by the whole hard interview/easy interview = good interview/bad interview thing. I seem to fluctuate from thinking it all went rather well to extreme pessimism. I've applied for a fairly small arts subject.

My immediate reaction when I came out of my interviews was that they were alright but in retrospect I think I said some silly things and maybe didn't answer the questions properly. I found them quite enjoyable (albeit slightly terrifying) at the time but that is probably just because I really like talking about my subject.

I had one interviewer who disagreed with nearly every point I made but then would sometimes smile in a way that made me feel like I was doing quite well. At the time it felt like it was being done to push me but now I'm worried that they genuinely hated all my ideas!

Is it a good sign if you feel like it would have gone on longer if it weren't for the time constraints?

It feels like a terribly long wait. I am trying to be positive about it for now - I'm going to be sad if I'm rejected no matter what so I might as well try to enjoy a few weeks of hope.

My experience was the same, but that actually worries me - maybe I became too relaxed for an interview situation...?

Had my interview on Monday for ChemEng via NatSci at Queens'.

I was able to answer some of the questions quite quickly without much guidance, but there were also some where I needed A LOT of hints before arriving at the right answer

And the questions weren't even that hard, I could've done a lot better at the mechanics questions if I were a bit calmer and thought about them more :/

Did anyone else find the questions surprisingly straight forward? There were probably only 1 challenging question per interview and even then they were quite manageable. Was it because my pace was too slow so I couldn't ger to the more difficult ones?

That seems to be a good thing, no? I genuinely went "huh?!" when they told me that my interview is over, I had not been aware of the passage of time...

Eh - it probably sounds more impressive than it actually was my general interview wasn't too terrible anyway; my academic one however had much hand burying and forgetting of words. Did yours go okay?