普渡大学西拉法叶分校面试经验汇总

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    博士申请

    1. 学生背景:中国科学技术大学;面试时间:2012年1月4日

    第二次是purdue的美国教授。时间1月10号上午8点在实验室。 教授按时打电话过来,由于上次的经验,我早已经把准备了很久的研究经历烂熟于胸,BBS上面的客套话也准备了好几条,还是很自信的。结果却出乎意料。

    P(LLM):Is that the Chinese guy?

    S:(我愣)Yeah, this is **.

    P:Ok. What shall I call you?

    S:My chinese name is **.

    P:So I will call you **. Nice to talk to you. You know that I have a chinese student ** here and I will let him to talk to you now. (声音转换,一个boy)Hi , **. Nice to talk to you.

    S:(感觉教授特别nice,让我放松一样,找了一个中国学生和我聊聊)Nice to talk to you too. I saw you on the website. 

    P:(又换成了教授) Okay...You can also contact with him if you have any question about your application and my research work.

    S:I see and I would like to. Thank you very much. (这个完全不在准备之中)

    P:You shoule not care about your application to the ** program and I will sort it out at this end. (因为教授说我申请错系了)(感觉教授的声音特别随意,好像一边做饭一边聊天,而且,声音时大时小,有好多关键字都听不到,让我非常郁闷)

    S:I am sorry that the phone is really not clear. I wonder why?...

    P:Now is okay? (这回好一些了)

    S:Yeah, it's okay now.

    P:Maybe it's because the Microphone.  ............(重复上面的一句话)

    S:I see. You have told me about this in the email. I am not worry about my application now.

    P:(长叹了一口气,好像是说我终于听懂了) Okay......., that's good. ... Do you have any questions about our conversion?

    S:(又是电话不清楚,我只听清question,可能是问我研究经历,感觉这个应该是下一步了)I have participated in several reseach acitivities...

    P:(立刻打断)No...no..no..I dont care about your research experience. (我愣...)Okay, I ask you. What will you do after you finish you phD in the United State?

    S:I will continue to do research work on computational biology. Because I am very interested in it and ...(一些牵强的理由).

    P:...university...company...?(没有听清)

    S:I will stay in the university becasue I like the atmosphere of studying in the school.

    P:Okay...Will you go back to China or still stay in the United State.

    S:I think after finishing my phD I will go back to China...

    P:I have a chinese colleague who is doing research on computational biology too. And he went back to Taiwan now. I think you can contact with him. It's necessary for you to talk to him about this question, although there are differences between the Taiwan and the mainland.

    S:Okay, I will. (感觉有点奇怪,但是又不敢轻易回答这个问题)

    P:You know that there're also many differences between USA and China. Here in the USA, a graduate must study himself and figure out ideas himself. And the ...(这个时候好像教授收到了一个电话)please hold on a moment...

    Boy: The professor is on another phone, please wait for a moment.

    S:It doesnt matter.(然后就和他聊了起来,当然还是英文。他介绍了他们实验室的情况,又说,他自己现在在作生物信息学。这个我最感兴趣了。我和这个中国学生了得很愉快,大概聊了20多分钟的样子。)

    P:I am back now.

    S:I have had a good talk with **.

    P:Yeah. I go on with my talk. You know the phd study takes so many years, and it is very hard and ... one's interest is very important.

    S:I see. And I am ready for it.

    P:LOL...nobody is ready for it...LOL...

    S:...(无语)

    P:I think it's important for you to think of these questions. Becasuse the problem of the phone, you need not to answer me now. You can write to me later.

    S:Okay, I will write to you soon.

    P:Not soon. You can take a few days.

    S:Okay, I will write to you as soon as I have answers.

    P:Yeah! Have a good Saturday.....Take care! Bye!

    S:BYE!

    总体感觉教授非常nice。根本没有刁难的意思。他好像也知道电话的问题,于是也没有要求我回答很多的question。那个中国学生也非常好。整个面试很愉快。只可惜我被第一个中国教授吓坏了,那次把我弄得死去活来的,所以这次准备的全部都是专业知识,而其他问题只看了一遍,没有太多准备。结果这次面试却一点专业知识都没有涉及。倒是问了关于未来打算的问题。

    这里我将这次教授问我的那几个问题拿出来,和大家讨论一下,到底我应该怎么回答那个 教授。尤其是最后一个问题。——

    1、What do I want to do as a graduate?

    2、What am I interested in?

    3、After finishing my PhD, what will I do?

    4、Will I stay in the United State or go back to China?

    我不知道将来留在美国和回到中国对于录取有多大的影响。这个问题该怎么回答那?

    总结,我觉得,

    中国教授一般都很了解自己人,一定要摸清底细才放心。所以中国教授的面试,一定要准备好专业知识。可能这也是BBS上面说得为什么不要找中国教授了。外国教授不会象中国教授这样问的那么细。一般都很nice。把那些经典问题准备一下,就没有问题了。

    荏苒柔木

    Fri Jun 24 11:53:34 CST 2016
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