UCL interviews post-mortem

[one_to_tango]

Well, I have to say that they seemed to go quite well.

There were about 8 of us, and I was the only one wearing a suit. Still, better to be over-dressed than under-dressed - you can dial the level of formality down with tone of voice, choice of vocabulary and body language, but it's hard to do it the other way.

The guy, a Dr. Mark Lancaster, told us

Comments

[aidansean]

Heh. Mark and Matt are great! Both lectured me and Mark is incredibly funny (while hating B physics with a passion!) Matt is, without a doubt, the best lecturer I've ever had, or at least I got more out of him than out of anyone else (including about a dozen free pints!) It's quite funny to hear of them in a formal interviewy context. Best of luck with it all! I'm sure you'll get a great place!

Out of interest, did you get to meet any of the current PhDers?

[one_to_tango]

Mark seemed rather hyper, and a bit eager. In fact, he scared me a bit! Not to say that he's not nice - finding out that he got banned from the Lamb and Flag for cashing too many bouncing cheques was a nice touch.

Jamie rated Mark too; he struck me as a very nice guy.

Also, I really liked Mark's approach to theorists - 'not today, thanks'. The idea of having no theorists but a phenomologist appealed to me too. His derision of string theorists was great, fits in with what a lot of people think; explains everything, predicts nothing, not falsifiable - that's not science, really, is it? That's some damn physics-trained mathmo having a laugh.

[foggydelius]

muhahahahahaha

Paul and myself went into G-A-Y for free because we had flyers.