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[brunhilde]

I received a schedule for an upcoming campus interview. Two hours are allotted as "open meeting time with faculty and current/former students." There is a room number, but no person named as there are for the other times. What does this mean?

[undisciplined]

It means you are holding court. These sessions are sometimes scheduled for the benefit of faculty who may have conflicts with all your public presentations. Anybody might drop by.

[mrhistory]

I had one where no one showed and it was restful. Another one guy came and talked to me about his golf game for the entire 90 minutes scheduled. Most you get pop-ins from faculty who can't make other events.

Beats the living hell out of the 15 minutes in each and every faculty members' office all day.  This way the anti-social, the introvert and the having-a-bad-day people just stay away.

[sibyl]

... and sometimes you get a battery of hostile questions which shows you how acrimonious the campus is... and sometimes you get a two-hour conversation with the loneliest guy on campus... and...