Yes, I know this is surprising.  Yet, sadly it is very, very and most emphatically true.  I suck at interviews–both being interview and interviewing someone.  It really is one of my weakest talents and abilities.  Interview scare the living hell out of me.  That is not why I suck at them.  I sucked at them long before I knew I sucked at them.  It has only become recently that interviews have started to scare me.  At this point the stakes are high.  When I was younger, I was far too stupid to really care about the interview to even notice I sucked. 

I don’t think this whole sucking at interviews is new.  It still freaks me out.  As far as I am concerned, I am lucky to get any job.  Maybe I am not as bad at this as I seem to be, but I am pretty sure I am.  I have always gotten jobs and that has been okay.  Why am I worried now you ask?  Well, my doctoral program admissions interview is in a couple of weeks.  I am bad enough when I am only being interviewed by one person, I can’t even imagine how horrible it will be being interviewed by a panel.  I am lucky enough (I think) to know the types of questions that are usually asked.  I have been obsessing about them for weeks.  Maybe it is my innate desire to be the best that makes me such a horrible interview.  So, dear Internets?  Lay it on me.  Give me some interview tips.  Help me succeed and I won’t make you call me Dr.  Please.