Most embarrassing moment in a university interview?

Posted this on the med forum as well

This Chinese doctor walked me from the waiting room to the interview room, and whilst he was walking me down he was being really nice and asking how the tour was etc. Then the interview starts, and first is a transplant surgeon asking me questions and he's really nice and encouraging. He said some of my answers were very good and I was thinking outside the box, and they were pretty standard questions as well tbh. Then it's the Chinese doctors turn and I think to myself "oh, this guy seemed really nice, I'll just ace his questions and then I'm in-jobs a good 'un". But he jumps straight in:
"How would you persuade a fellow Muslim that the theory of evolution is correct?
"Ermm.. scientific evidence and stuff...?"
"Like what?"
"Fossil records and genome comparisons"
"And?"
"Sorry, I don't know"
"Hmm..ok, let's move on. You must have been asleep in your Biology lessons!"
*nervous laugh* "Haha, yeah that's right" (I started laughing very hard at his joke which I didn't find funny)
"Ok, so your friend has the answers for your medical final exam what would you do?"
*Give an answer talking about integrity and professionalism yet compassion and love for my colleague, and how I would not look at the answers*
"But reeallly?...Are you sure you wouldn't have a look?"
"Yes, I definitely wouldn't"
"Really? I'm sure if I was a medical student, I'd have a hard time not looking"
"To be honest, in the situation I might be tempted to have a good look through the answers"
"That's not very good is it?! What happened to honesty?"

Seriously, I think he found it funny to toy with me like that

I was in a group interview and was talking about some subject or another, and I suddenly just stopped because I couldn't for the life of me think of the word I was trying to say. The other people in the interview even started trying to help me out and guess the word I had forgotten (but failed) so I just sat there basically in silence with an entire group of people staring at me while I tried to think of the word or even a similar one. It was physically painful.

Employers and Uni admissions people frequently go through your net presence these days. My advice would be to make sure that your UCAS is made using a separate formal email so they can't find you online.

You've made me really curious now! Did you ever remember the word, and if so, what was it?

Employers and Uni admissions people frequently go through your net presence these days. My advice would be to make sure that your UCAS is made using a separate formal email so they can't find you online.

I assume you're a muslim with your username (I'm one too), was the first question about evolution awkard at all? Would've been nice to have a little debate about evolution vs intelligent design.

Yeah, I am It was loosely related to an EPQ I had done about science and Islam. And in hindsight, I guess they just wanted to see my opinions and arguments etc, but it wasn't too awkward as they seemed really interested to listen to what I had to say. I don't think it was much of a debate though

Ah that makes more sense - I did wonder why they had gone out on a tangent randomly asking about evolution but sounds pretty cool. It's nice when they try and personalise the interview rather than the generic 'why here/why this/etc' questions.

But hope the interview went well overall!

Mines not hilarious but it was a mega awkward moment at the time at my uni interview.

"So Josh, why Surrey University?"

"I want to go to Sussex because..I mean Surrey because.."

"Nastly slip of the tongue there, I'll pretend I didn't hear that"

And after that the whole interview just went to pants



Still got an offer though..