Saturday, June 22, 2013

What is a name?

All of my life, I've run in to problems because my name, Sarah, is such a common name. In high school, there was another Sarah that looked similar enough to me that teachers would get us confused. In college, I lived in a house with 3 other girls, 2 of whom were named Sarah. In graduate school, there has always been at least one other Sarah in my research group at all times. Here at Toolik, the camp population is ~100, and there are 5 Sarahs. And 3 of us are Sarah Elizabeths, and we all work in the same lab. What are the odds?