high table business
At the high table dinner tonight the supposedly host I was reassigned to another table. Sat down as the interrupter I introduced myself as a tutor doing research on robotics, while the other 3 guests were a) from JP Morgan b) another big4 which I don’t quite remember c) a PR staff who graduated from a Master of Political Science. One of the guest pop in after my intro, “Whom do you collaborate with?”, while guest (c) elaborated with “I also experienced with research. What kind of universities do you exchange your experimental data with?” after I somehow managed the question.
Stoned. They didn’t even ask me what kind of research I was doing, but my regional exposure. Oh ya, one asked “So you create your design and then build your design and make design and build?”. Huh.
And then guest A and B were sticking to the few BBA students talking about Big 4 news and job market. The 3 engineering students at another corner were talking to themselves, and another 2 computer science girls didn’t know what to say. Guest C could engage herself with another 2 students and it appears that my table was talking well. Unlike the usual me I didn’t utter much but to shut myself up with the on tray food. Not a good host would usually do eh.
Their conversations were intelligent, I suppose. What they asked me was intelligent too, I suppose. None of my templates for my high-table conversation came into any use, and now, I see that why can’t I find a management trainee job.
April 23rd, 2005 at 2:54 am
Poor girl. Fret not, people just like to impress others.
May 14th, 2006 at 6:10 am
Forgive them. What else can they ask? You won’t expect a bunch of business people to ask how rhombic dodecahedron modular robots can perform articulated movement without reconfiguration, would you? ^0^