Phunky, I know you're excited and everything. I agree that it's a lot of fun to meet cool people involved with vet med, as clients or otherwise.
If mentioning a baseball players name on a pre-vet forum could overshadow a degree at an honors college and years of veterinary experience I weep for that school. Most of you guys are acting like I am intentionally trying to oust this guy and have committed a serious crime. I'm not trying to do either. I was just excited about meeting a famous dude and thought I would share it with fellow vet people, sorry. Chill out a little... more than enough of you have stated that I should not have done this. I thought that in a profession where feces and urine flies across rooms hitting people you all would be a bit more relaxed.
And yeah it's public, but none of you know my name or where I live.
Clients' med history is a serious business to me too. But that aside, don't think that nobody can figure out who you are (if you're like the rest of us, anyhow). Though if you're careful, they can't, this is also true.
But most of us practically ensure that any adcom for the schools we've applied to can figure out who we are. We post that information ourselves!
Do you want to know what my interests are? Peruse my history, it's there.
Want to know that I'm applying my second cycle? It's there.
Want to know what schools I've applied to this round? I've posted it. Want to know what day I'm interviewing at what school (and heck when I got the email)? It's there.
Adcoms (at an open file interview) also have all this info... paired up to my real name, and I doubt there's going to be too many other applicants with the exact same stats interviewing the same day.
They know who I am if they read these boards and care to match it up, because I've willingly given up enough info to allow that while chatting it up with all of you. And as long as I can behave myself on here
, that's probably a pretty neutral thing for me to do.