1. Name:
Preliminary questions(feel free to stop doing the questionnaire if you answer no to question 1, yes to question 2, and no to question 4):
2. Do you live within a thirty-minute radius/are you comfortable commuting to Murray Hill or elsewhere in Manhattan to hang out with me? YesNo
3. Are you crazy? YesNo
4. What is your email?
5. Can you supply a personal website or social media profile?
6. Once I review your application, I will reach out to have a more formal, sit-down interview to be my friend in Manhattan. This interview will be videotaped and I will be posting the footage on social media. Are you able to report to Manhattan and spend at least an hour for the interview? YesNo
10 Open-answer Questions(word limit 300 words for each question)
1. Why are you filling out this questionnaire?
2. How many “close friends”(by close friends I mean people that you see more than twice a month if they live in the tri-state area or if they are a long-distance friend that you speak with at least twice a month) do you have?
3. Do you listen to Billie Eilish? If so, why?
4. It’s Saturday morning! What time are you up and what do you want to do with the day?
5. Have you ever had an existential crisis? How did it come about and what was your ultimate takeaway from it?
6. You are at a party and a topic comes up that you could go on and on and on about that nobody else knows anything about. What is the topic and would you talk about it or not talk about it?
7. What do you think about feminism? How did you come to that conclusion?
8. If there was an alternate reality in which you had a debilitating, life-altering addiction, what would you be addicted to?
9. What are your dreams?
10. Do you believe in ethical consumerism or is it a drop in a giant well that has already been dug by multinational corporations so it doesn’t matter?
13 Multiple-choice Questions
1. What qualities are most important to you in a friend: LoyaltyHonestyHumorInspirationA and BC and D
2. What is the worst thing on this list: Processed sugarStubbing your toeThrowing upYour mom(or another parental type figure) telling an old embarrassing story in front of new peopleRealizing you were scammed out of $30
3. Most of the law reforms suggested by the Feminist Group for Rights are implemented within five years of the first suggestion. Therefore, the law reforms first suggested by this group at the convention today will probably be implemented within five years. The pattern of reasoning in which one of the following arguments is most similar to that in the argument above? Most of the Emmy Awards in the last three years have gone to web series in the crime genre. Thus, if most of the Emmy Awards next year are awarded to web series, most of these web series will probably belong to the crime genre.Most of the farmers in this region grow paddy. Therefore, paddy is likely to have been a staple food of this region for centuries.Most consumers of single-use plastics live in urban areas. Therefore, if a person does not consume single-use plastics, he probably does not live in an urban area.The child mortality rate has worsened slowly but steadily for the last five years. Therefore, the government’s move to slash funding of its child-vaccination program is ill-advised.Most graduates of this law school find jobs in the top twenty law firms of the country upon graduation. Therefore, most students of the outgoing class are likely to find jobs in the top twenty law firms of the country upon graduation.
4. Friendship to me means: ReflectionCompanionshipComfortExchangeA reminder of all of our interdependence
5. Would you describe yourself as spontaneous or dependable? SpontaneousDependableNothing feels rightBoth, you can be both at once and I refuse to compromise
6. Scorpio, Gemini, Aquarius, or Aries?: ScorpioGeminiAriesI hate astrology
7. What do you think is the most interesting period in American History: Colonial SettlementThe Great Depression/World War IIThe Civil WarNowRise of Industrial America(1876-1900)
8. I believe that: True friendship is based on unselfish love for another person. In sharing one's inner life with another one comes to live not just one life but two. The inner life of another that is known to God alone becomes to a much less degree open to us through friendship. It partially fills the desire of our incomplete, lonely hearts for completeness in another. Friendship brings out the best in a person through forgetfulness of self. Yet it is limited as one cannot give totally of oneself to another because one is not in complete possession of oneself. Friendships are the result of virtue. They are based on a goodness in oneself that another can love. Friends come to discover the good in each other and the relationship grows.A person can (and will) use their friends instrumentally as they strive to become who they are supposed to be. In a healthy relationship, a person must be willing to risk losing their friendship if it has become parasitic and limits their ability to grow. Friends offer much more to each other when they recognize self-interestedness, when they desire to grow in self-understanding, and when they are willing to invite this growth at the cost of conflict.“Love after you have judged” rather than “judge after you have loved.” Friendship is an impulse of love, so take care not to love too quickly. Virtue must be the basis for friendship so never ask a friend to do anything shameful. A friend is “someone you can talk to about everything as if you were speaking to yourself.”What is it about friendship which changes our life? Why do we enjoy it so much? Well, one reason is that life without friends is like crawling through a dark narrow and twisting tunnel. All you see is what is in front of you. If you have true friends you can share what happens to you. Even familiar things come alive sometimes when you share them with friends. It is more like walking along a broad highway where you can see all the countryside around you. Can you think of anything which could bring you more happiness than friendship or the trust in and care for good friends and their trust and care for us?Friendship is a form of shared estrangement in which we can find solace together and change the world for the better. Think about the relationship between estrangement and political movements.
9. Work is: A means to an endsA way I bring my passions to lifeSomething I do to better societyA total bummerA myth that allows rich people to steal from poor people
10. Which poet’s writing do you most connect with? Sylvia PlathRumiRupi KaurRainer Maria RilkePablo Neruda
11. Do you feel like you’ve lived one life or lots of lives? Lots of livesOnce lifeI don’t think about it like thatI don’t feel like I am livingI am too busy living to think about it
12. How do you feel about answering all these questions: AnnoyedIntriguedResentfulInspirationExcited to meet in personNeutral
13. Aristotle once said; “my friends, there are no friends.” How do you feel about that: AgreeDisagreeNeutralThat's so cold and unfeeling!Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Emptiness is not other than form. Form is not other than emptiness
1 Essay Question(minimum 500 words, maximum 1000 words)
Please describe a friend breakup you have gone through. If you haven’t gone through a friend breakup, please explain why you think you have never gone through a friend breakup. Outline a major friendship in your life and explain why it is successful.