Personal 24 May 2007 03:55 pm
Stanford Imposter
This is really incredible…. like, a little TOO incredible to be believable (like the 2004 Red Sox ALCS comeback). It’s the story of a person squatting at Stanford that faked being a student for 8 months. She “took” classes. She studied for “exams” (which were not graded because she wasn’t registered). Most creepy of all, she conned her way into living in the dorms.
She was recently caught, and the Stanford Daily reported on the story.
Why would anyone do this? Her friends’ best guesses (from the article):
Friends aren’t sure of her motive for sneaking onto campus and living a lie, but many speculate that she felt pressure from overbearing parents to attend Stanford — regardless of whether she was admitted.
Wow. At least they’re blaming parents instead of the media ;)
PS: this is my first test with a SmartLink in a post. Trying clicking on the blue icon next to the link (RSS readers will see nothing).
2 Responses to “Stanford Imposter”
on 24 May 2007 at 4:16 pm 1.Eric said …
Hi Andrew,
Its my first time on your site but I thought I would give some feedback to the smartlink link. I think it could add value to a bigger story and perhaps be more useful with a mouseover hover much like the snap.com links. I am a fan of the sphere links because they show related content. This shows you “possible” related content – but I cant imagine there actually being pictures of the “imposter” on flickr, plus it only tags the words separately.
I hope you dont see this as knocking the plugin just giving some initial feedback. I have been looking for something similar for my own blog and I feel like a lot of these companies are almost there – but not quite there yet.
on 24 May 2007 at 9:53 pm 2.Brendan said …
I really love this story. The audacity of what she did impresses me. I thought it was odd that the article was so incredibly focused on the security issue — isn’t *she* a much more interesting topic? Then again I don’t have much personal stake in the issue :)
p.s. I didn’t see the smartlink