SDN hide and seek

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ellaB said:
i feel like i have to go out of my way to hide from SDN'ers!! i don't know how i manage to find so many but i do. maybe because I'm from a small state. so much for anonymity....
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Hahaha the longer you post the harder it is to concel your identity because a lot of people get to know personalities and styles of talking. For instance, when Mr. Larkin USF's former admissions director and UCF COMs new admissions director first started posting here it wasn't him using his nickname that confirmed it was him posting on here for me. I say this because someone else could have easily come up with using that. But his talking style is so distinct that one could almost recognize it when they read his posts as it.

But in a way I think it is good that we can get to start to know people before we meet them at interviews. I also love how this site has those class threads in the Allo forums every year. that's a good way to get to know who your future classmates or possible future classmates are before you meet in person and a way to network with other med students who will start when you do. i actually read a similar article to this idea a few days ago about how the facebook revolution isi helping young college students to start meeting their new roommates before getting to college.
 
You're all making me wonder if I should have chosen a less-obvious user name. Is it bad that I'm not trying to hide my identity? :scared:
 
I know there's at least one person from my school on SDN... she complained about her MCAT experience, and I heard the same thing in Orgo the following Monday. And I have a couple friends in the predent forum, but I don't think they care much.

I'm absolutely horrible at remembering names, so there's only a few people I would potentially spot on SDN, and I don't think they're applying to the same schools as I am.
 
Just had my first interview today. We were at GWU, and they put us in a room together to have lunch. I said "So, anyone here on SDN?" and the guy next to me says "Phoenix?" Hah! Granted, I PMed Harrison prior to the interview, but it was funny he happened to be sitting next to me. And in the elevator on the tour I copped to having been an attorney for 8 years, and couldn't help but preen when everyone gasped and said I looked too young. Hah! Oh, and everyone was really laid back and friendly, and the interviews were amazingly laid back and conversational, as promised.

Hip-bump, eh? Like the idea, but that might be a little harder to work in stealthily. How about a left-handed shake? Is that subtle enough? 😉
 
brianoflee said:
You're all making me wonder if I should have chosen a less-obvious user name. Is it bad that I'm not trying to hide my identity? :scared:
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There are a few exceptions where there were people I know of who were threatened by others, but I've made it rather obvious about who I am on here and nothing has ever happened to me on SDN. I think I'm more scared about people hacking into my acct from my university which happened to me once on SDN. Someone hacked into my acct and was trying to say some very disturbing things using my username and calling me an ass by putting up a nasty signature. Then on another occasion someone at my university hacked into my facebook acct. Since then I've changed the passwords to something no one will be able to figure out and made sure to properly log out if I use school comps although I'm no longer on that side of campus nor use USF facilities for comp usage as I now have a proper functioning laptop.

I have gotten in fights with people on SDN but there is only one case where someone on SDN significantly creeped me out and that was with a banned poster who I met in real life. He had been banned from these forums twice and at first he seemed decent but later on he went on to act rather disturbing both when I saw him in real life and on the forums. Other then that, it is more like I get in arguments with people but i wouldn't say they sem dangerous and I'm not too paranoid. I know a lot of my real life acquaintances and friends know who I am on here. I don't mind.
 
Femme Fatale said:
oh my gosh, guju, this is crazy. 🙂
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huh? Maybe I should have clarified. I don't care if my friends and acquaintances who I know know who I am on here. I've never eally had anything happen except that one time when my acct was hacked into but that issue has since been resolved.

I wonder why some people I know have been threatened on here. That has never happened to me.
 
I've met an SDNer at each of my two interviews so far...but I had seen on the interview invites thread that we were interviewing the same day, so I kind of knew ahead of time. But it was still funny to see a real person behind the screen name... 🙂
 
Femme Fatale said:
oops, I forgot to highlight that part, that's what I was referring to as crazy. Seriously, I would have completely panicked. 🙁 It looks like you've overcome these situations quite well. 🙂
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Yeah but that guy was a different case. He wasn't someone I see on a regular basis or had classes with. I talked with him on SDN a few time sand met him on two occasions in real life. One was at a shuttle stop and the other was when I thought he was normal and we went to lunch. I don't know was weird even back then but he wouldn't be the general rule of people I've met on SDN or in real life. Though there are a lot more people that annoy me who I know in real life then on SDN, I'd say that none of them are creepy just a bit mean and cocky sometimes. This guy was an all out exception and far be it from the rule.
 
I met (or at least figured out who he was ) one of SDN's more famous members at a party once... I ended the conversation quickly.
 
Phoenix. said:
Well, at least for my Sept & early Oct interviews, I'll probably be wearing the same grey (kind of a black & white blend) pants suit, black shoes and bag, and with my longish brown hair pulled up in a pony tail. Feel free to ask "Hey, are you Phoenix?" before offering the secret SDN handshake. But if you're too shy, you could just ask where I'm from. If the response is Chicago, then feel free to proceed with the secret handshake. 😉
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Okay, Phoenix, I have no idea but for some reason I have been picturing you as a guy. So when you described what you looked like, I was thinking hmmm, tall, lanky, 12:00 shadow, and a ponytail...coooool. Then I saw that you wrote "pants suit", and I'm thinking 'What else would he wear, a kilt suit?' Anyhoo, I figured it now.

As for the secret handshake...I think we may be able to adapt this one to our purposes! Don't worry, it shows it in slomo as well.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JySTyjQbf4k[/YOUTUBE]
 
Picklesali said:
Okay, Phoenix, I have no idea but for some reason I have been picturing you as a guy. So when you described what you looked like, I was thinking hmmm, tall, lanky, 12:00 shadow, and a ponytail...coooool. Then I saw that you wrote "pants suit", and I'm thinking 'What else would he wear, a kilt suit?' Anyhoo, I figured it now.

As for the secret handshake...I think we may be able to adapt this one to our purposes! Don't worry, it shows it in slomo as well.
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Man, that's all you. I'm going to go with the left-handed shake. But feel free to follow it up with that, errrr, "secret shake" you just suggested. 👍

I would LOVE to see someone on the trail with a kilt suit. Kilts are super sexy. Anyway, funny thing is there was another girl in our interview group with long brown hair pulled back, and an almost identical suit as mine. I kept waiting for someone to go up to her and ask where she was from. 😉

Oh, and with a name like Picklesali, I figured there was only one possible gender option for you too - male!
 
Phoenix. said:
Man, that's all you. I'm going to go with the left-handed shake. But feel free to follow it up with that, errrr, "secret shake" you just suggested. 👍

I would LOVE to see someone on the trail with a kilt suit. Kilts are super sexy. Anyway, funny thing is there was another girl in our interview group with long brown hair pulled back, and an almost identical suit as mine. I kept waiting for someone to go up to her and ask where she was from. 😉

Oh, and with a name like Picklesali, I figured there was only one possible gender option for you too - male!
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Only if he had the Scottish brogue to go with it. (Mmmmmmm, I like Scottish accents)

Yeah, I'm just a girl who likes pickles. (The dill ones😉)
 
Phoenix. said:
*swoon* Ever read Outlander? 😀
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Phoenix, I live a block away from Borders. If I don't get into an MD/PhD program I will blame YOU personally for giving me another excuse to avoid filling out my secondary stragglers!

From Amazon:
" In Outlander, a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart. But don't let the number of pages and the Scottish dialect scare you. It's one of the fastest reads you'll have in your library. While on her second honeymoon in the British Isles, Claire touches a boulder that hurls her back in time to the forbidden Castle Leoch with the MacKenzie clan. Not understanding the forces that brought her there, she becomes ensnared in life-threatening situations with a Scots warrior named James Fraser. But it isn't all spies and drudgery that she must endure. For amid her new surroundings and the terrors she faces, she is lured into love and passion like she's never known before.
I was lame and sore in every muscle when I woke next morning. I shuffled to the privy closet, then to the wash basin. My innards felt like churned butter. It felt as though I had been beaten with a blunt object, I reflected, then thought that that was very near the truth. The blunt object in question was visible as I came back to bed, looking now relatively harmless. Its possessor [Jamie] woke as I sat next to him, and examined me with something that looked very much like male smugness."​
Gabaldon creates characters that you'll remember, laugh with, cry with, and cheer for long after you've finished the book. --Candy Paape"
 
P.S. Sorry for the :hijacked:

Proceed with your conversation on anticipating meeting Jolie South. 😀
 
Phoenix. said:
Uh oh. Did you realize yet that it's a SERIES? All around 600 hundred pages or so? Sure, I'll take the blame! 😀
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No way! How many torrid time-travel romances can one woman have?
 
So I was at Creighton yesterday. Someone in the lunch line says, "hey, are you tropicana?" Yup, someone found me alright. :laugh::laugh::laugh:
 
I kinda wish I posted more so I could be an SDN celebrity and play hide and seek. No one will ever recognize poor Cataract at an interview 🙁

Bah, let's just hope I get an interview 😛
 
People were talking about SDN at AECOM on the 17th but no one outed themselves haha
 
Tufts on the 18th, anybody?
 
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