Do you know someone that regularly uses SDN?

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I've logged on from the lecture hall before (of course not during a lecture... :whistle:), and my classmates know that I use it. I know a few classmates who use SDN. And one of our professors mentioned it in OMM lab, asking if anyone recognized @Winged Scapula since we were talking about scapula r winging and he figured that the term would be most recognizable to us from SDN. About 1/3 the class clearly knew who he was talking about, 1/3 clearly didn't, and the rest were trying to pretend they didn't.
 
Promethean said:
I've logged on from the lecture hall before (of course not during a lecture... :whistle:), and my classmates know that I use it. I know a few classmates who use SDN. And one of our professors mentioned it in OMM lab, asking if anyone recognized @Winged Scapula since we were talking about scapula r winging and he figured that the term would be most recognizable to us from SDN. About 1/3 the class clearly knew who he was talking about, 1/3 clearly didn't, and the rest were trying to pretend they didn't.
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Really? Your professor mentioned me?

😛
 
Winged Scapula said:
There have been several relationships between people who met here even a few marriages!
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Ahh so the rule is don't talk to people you already know about SDN but meeting people from SDN is fair game.🤣
 
I go to a liberal arts college with lots of pre-meds, yet none of them seem to know what SDN is. My pre-med advisor didn't even know about it.
 
I go to a small LAC, this being my second year, and I've only met one other person who openly says they are pre-med. I didn't bother asking him if he uses SDN, but I'm sure he has heard of it.

So basically, no. I am the only person that I know of who uses SDN 🙁
 
TheLoveOfTheMedicine said:
Why is this site supposed to be oh so secretive? Just curious. And why not talk about it?
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Some people here who do know things are a bit harsh in their responses. That is because there is a yearly influx of people who don't know things and aren't 1) aware of how uninformed they might be and/or 2) lacking in general netiquette. That makes for a bit of friction that has given this place a reputation.

Also, the anonymity thing... because people can speak freely here without having their comments attached to their own name, that sometimes encourages people to say things that they wouldn't WANT to have attached to their own name. Some people have been very vocal in ways that they reasonably fear could bite them in the rear. So, that creates a kind of baseline paranoia about admitting that you use the site, lest someone suss out who you are.

I think that the positives of (relative) anonymity still outweigh the negatives. As for the conflicts... the mods do a great job of weeding out obvious trolls and keeping the discourse here civil. I'd say that despite the reputation, this is one of the most collegial forums I've used. There is a core comprised of regular posters who frequently have very useful insights to share and it has formed an archive of wisdom that can be accessed across the years by anyone with the will to search it. Almost any med school related google search brings up SDN in the top ranks, and there is almost always something helpful there.

If you like it, and find it useful, hang around and help it be useful for the next round of students. That is what makes SDN worth talking about.
 
I knew an SDN troll. He used the same username for the comment section of our college newspaper's website, which is how I knew we went to the same school. Was pretty easy to put two and two together because he was an a**hole irl too.
 
So my mom and girlfriend (also a premed) both stumbled across this site and figured out who I was without me ever mentioning I'd been on here.

They still make fun of me for it...
 
Someone I met via SDN on the interview trail has ended up being one of my closest friends in med school.
 
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