Preliminary Questions
Do you live within a thirty-minute radius/are you comfortable commuting to Murray Hill or elsewhere in Manhattan to hang out with me?
Are you crazy?
Can you supply a personal website or social media profile?
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?
Open Questions
Why are you filling out this questionnaire?
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?
Do you listen to Billie Eilish? If so, why?
It's Saturday morning! What time are you up and what do you want to do with the day?
Have you ever had an existential crisis? How did it come about and what was your ultimate takeaway from it?
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?
What do you think about feminism? How did you come to that conclusion?
If there was an alternate reality in which you had a debilitating, life-altering addiction, what would you be addicted to?
What are your dreams?
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?
Multiple-Choice Questions
What qualities are most important to you in a friend
What is the worst thing on this list
Work is:
Which poet's writing do you most connect with?
Do you feel like you've lived one life or lots of lives?
How do you feel about answering all these questions:
Aristotle once said; "my friends, there are no friends." How do you feel about that:
Essay Question
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.
In spanish because my english is no good.
Hace unos meses tuve una relación de amistad con una persona que, a pesar de no conocer en persona, me hizo sentir muy feliz. Teníamos una amistad muy fuerte, a base de videollamadas y chat en la que reíamos mucho y la pasábamos bien. Comenzamos a enamorarnos el uno del otro y lentamente nos entristecíamos porque la distancia era un problema que se interponía entre nosotros, sin embargo, ella y yo nos dábamos cariño el uno al otro desde la distancia. Todo iba bien hasta que ella entró a la universidad. Desde ese momento, ella se olvidó por completo de mí y me hablaba con muy poca frecuencia y con mucha frialdad. Al final, no soporté más ese comportamiento y le pregunté qué fue lo que sucedió... ella no me quiso dar respuesta, pero gracias a las fotos que subía a sus historias de instagram, me dio a entender que ya tenía pareja y por eso fue que me dejó de hablar de repente... fue muy doloroso el saber que todo lo que teníamos se destruyó y que ella no le dio la más mínima importancia a eso. Al final del día, sólo pude aprender que por más fuerte que sea un vínculo con alguien, si la otra persona no tiene valores, es muy posible que ese vínculo se destruya.