Hyphenated names and residencies.
I had to call the registrar's office at my university the other day. This is what followed.
Lady: "Your student number and name, please?"
Me: "My number is #######, my name is Kari-Ava ______." [Kari-Ava is my full first name. My last name is not hyphenated. I spelled it all out, including the hyphen.]
Lady: "I'm sorry, there's nobody in our system with the last name Ava-______."
Me: "No, no... my first name is hyphenated, not my last name. Kari-Ava."
Lady: "So Ava is your middle name, then?"
Me: "No. My first name is Kari, hyphen, Ava. It's hyphenated. It's one name. I don't have a middle name."
Lady: "OHHH. I thought you could only hyphenate last names?"
Me: "................."
I should be used to it by now because everybody has issues with my name, but I was fairly frustrated. She deals with students every day, you think she would see weird names. And then she didn't even help me with what I needed. :(
Also-- I'm your typically neurotic pre-med student, who hangs out with all of her neurotic pre-med friends. One of them, we'll call him Joe, wants to be an orthopedic surgeon. I've wanted to be a doctor pretty much since I came out of the womb, but he decided to do so after he got to college and realized he didn't know what else to do. The following conversation ensued.
Me: "Kind of sucks though, as an orthopedic surgeon you're going to have a loooong residency."
Joe: "Residency?"
Me: "... yeah?"
Joe: "What's that?"
........... did he think he was just going to graduate from med school and just go off cutting people open?
I have no words. Come on, doesn't the guy even watch Scrubs or something? HOW HARD is it to know about RESIDENCY, especially when YOU WANT TO BE A DOCTOR?! *facepalm*
Lady: "Your student number and name, please?"
Me: "My number is #######, my name is Kari-Ava ______." [Kari-Ava is my full first name. My last name is not hyphenated. I spelled it all out, including the hyphen.]
Lady: "I'm sorry, there's nobody in our system with the last name Ava-______."
Me: "No, no... my first name is hyphenated, not my last name. Kari-Ava."
Lady: "So Ava is your middle name, then?"
Me: "No. My first name is Kari, hyphen, Ava. It's hyphenated. It's one name. I don't have a middle name."
Lady: "OHHH. I thought you could only hyphenate last names?"
Me: "................."
I should be used to it by now because everybody has issues with my name, but I was fairly frustrated. She deals with students every day, you think she would see weird names. And then she didn't even help me with what I needed. :(
Also-- I'm your typically neurotic pre-med student, who hangs out with all of her neurotic pre-med friends. One of them, we'll call him Joe, wants to be an orthopedic surgeon. I've wanted to be a doctor pretty much since I came out of the womb, but he decided to do so after he got to college and realized he didn't know what else to do. The following conversation ensued.
Me: "Kind of sucks though, as an orthopedic surgeon you're going to have a loooong residency."
Joe: "Residency?"
Me: "... yeah?"
Joe: "What's that?"
........... did he think he was just going to graduate from med school and just go off cutting people open?
I have no words. Come on, doesn't the guy even watch Scrubs or something? HOW HARD is it to know about RESIDENCY, especially when YOU WANT TO BE A DOCTOR?! *facepalm*