Nervousness-induced Stupidity

Last Friday (6/27) I had an interview for my entrance exam for a scholarship program over Skype. And I kind of failed it, quite miserably I have to admit. The pace of the interview was so nervous-inducingly fast.
  • I forgot my registration number for the test,
  • I forgot what RISC stands for, it's reduced instruction-set computer anyway,
  • I couldn't even said that RISC uses fewer clock cycle(s) per instruction compared to "de facto" standard of x86 processor architecture family which belongs to CISC architecture: complex instruction-set computer,
  • I couldn't clearly explain my internship experience (which could be strong point in the interview)--even I mention the organization's name wrong in English,
  • I showed how little my experience with FPGA by saying the furthest I had gone with it is merely dumb stopwatch, 
  • I showed how lame my experience in programming in assembler language,
  • I spoke gibberish thing like: I love being in a team, which has no real implication IRL,
  • I brought up non-technical issues on something in which we hope such issue won't happen related to its technical implementation,
  • I was pausing mid-sentence... over and over again,
  • I was sure my voice wasn't audibly illegible,
  • ... and all other silly mistakes I did unawarely
The only thing I was confident about is when I said "I'd definitely do".
...I was just panicking like stupid, definitely.

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