Walking in Budapest just passed by the old building of Central European University and suddenly remembered the one time I interacted with this institution
Conversation
I had applied to a job and gave a job talk, which seemed to go very well. Head if department looked very happy before taking me to meet the president, a gentleman called Yehuda Elkana. We entered his office and the head of department looked terrified.
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For the next half hour he and a couple other members of the department sat by the wall in complete silence. Elkana sat on a couch and proceeded to take off his shoes and socks and place his bare feet on the coffee table
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After some small talk about my time at Harvard he asked me what I thought of the war on terror. I told him my opinion. He said he disagreed and told me to leave. After a couple hours I received an email from his secretary saying I had not gotten the job.
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Never heard anything from the department
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