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Comment by donatj

The small private college I attended in the early aughts used your SSN as your student ID and it was printed on everything. Transcripts, official records, basically any piece of paper with your name on it. You'd even speak it aloud to the worker at the book store to pick up your books for the semester. It was everywhere.

As a kid twenty years ago, I was mildly bothered by it but imagined they must know what they are doing.

Looking back at near 40, with the hindsight of years, I'm flummoxed. Like, what the hell, who's absolutely terrible idea was this?

parent donatj 2 years ago

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