Interview for a post-doctoral fellowship, I've concluded, is a lot like an oral exam where the only thing you know going in is what class it's for and what grade is considered passing.

The worse part of it is you step in knowing you have to take this same exam again and again and each time the focus will be different, the questions will be different and how the answers are scored will be different, and that according other post-docs the success rate right now for a passing grade is like ...33%.

The worst part of it is that, as an introvert, five hours of talking is way too much.