Purdue assigns all of us a “career ID” which I’m led to believe is SOP for all colleges. The mangled remnants of our name become our username, email address and key to practically anything requiring electronic authentication for Purdue. Mine is boring, it’s just my last name. Apparently I applied early enough to avoid having a number assigned or my first two letters of my first name prefixed to it, thus avoiding the fates of those with common last names like Kim or Smith.
But I was in the computer lab the other day when someone behind me noticed whose documents were coming out of the printer.
Guy: “Tank”? Who’s named Tank? That’s an awesome-
At which point a 5 foot tall skinny Asian girl, came and took the printouts
I think we can assume her last name was “Tan” and that her first name began with a ‘K’. The system is a weird formula. I was silently grateful her last name wasn’t “Chin”.