High School Grad Pretends to be Student at Stanford

[lockharte]

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/ ... sterCaught

[creaothceann]

I guess she had low self-confidence & high expectations / pressure from her parents.

[Deathlike2]

This has to do with lax security and RAs who don't quite check their roster often enough and/or know the people who live around them well enough.

Not surprising actually.

[Joe Camacho]

Hahahaha.

[corronchilejano]

...lol?

The time she wasted there she at least could've spent studying to get into another College.

[whicker]

Again, I'm amazed at the people's reactions more than anything.
So freaking what.

And the lovely part:

"She was kind of shy, kind of reserved, but for someone who really isn’t affiliated with Stanford, that’s to be expected,” Okada neighbor Bo Zheng ‘08 said. “When I saw her in the hall, she wouldn’t really say ‘hi’ or anything.”

But closer friends hinted at deeper troubles underneath a sweet veneer.

“There must be something big behind this,” said Lee, “because I don’t think people behave this way for no reason. We’re hoping she gets help if she needs it.”



God I hate people.

[Joe Camacho]

Bah, I have had something like that before..

There is a guy in law school that SWEARS that he is studying there, and not only that, that he gets AWESOME grades. Like, in first semester he was always "Oh man, I got 95 on the test, shit". Kind of guy. In my school, the average of your grades dictates the turn in your enrolling for next semester, unsurprisingly, this dude was very LOW in the enrolling list, when I asked him what was wrong, he told me:

"There is a guy in all my classes, that's named EXACTLY like me, he was an ass and failed all the classes, but all the teachers gave HIM my grades, and I got all of HIS grades, so I got a low average grade, but it doesn't matter, because I already talked with the teachers."

"But dude, why didn't you noticed it at the END OF THE SEMESTER?"

"Well.. I didn't cared."

...

At another semester, I wanted to make a schedule of 8am to 1pm, but I couldn't build it, stupid classes didn't fit, I had to take a class in the afternoon or start classes at 7am... According to this dude, he had a 8am to 1pm schedule.. WITH ALL THE CLASSES.

...

We were once talking about what area of law we wanted to specialize, I said I wanted to specialize in merchant law (This was before I met the magnificence of Constitutional law.. Whatever) Case on point: a couple of days later he came to me and told me he was working for a "Merchant law lawyer".

"You are? Well, good for you."
"Yeah, he owns."
"Well.. What's his name?"
"Name? I don't remember."
"You don't remember the name of the lawyer you work for?"
"..."

...

He stopped appearing in the enrolling lists, so I thought he had left school, but every once in a while he would meet me at a party or something and tell me "JOE I SAW YOU YESTERDAY AT SCHOOL/LIBRARY/CLASSROOM", but he was always very busy "studying" to greet me.

"Dude I saw you in school yesterday!"
"Ah.. Yesterday was sunday, there is no school on sundays."
"Ah.. Yeah."

[Deathlike2]

Bah, I have had something like that before..

What you need is a baloney cutter. It cuts though BS like hot butter. It can double as a ginsu knife.

[Joe Camacho]

Bah, I have had something like that before..

What you need is a baloney cutter. It cuts though BS like hot butter. It can double as a ginsu knife.

And miss all this fun? NEVER.

[Deathlike2]

Bah, I have had something like that before..

What you need is a baloney cutter. It cuts though BS like hot butter. It can double as a ginsu knife.

And miss all this fun? NEVER.

Heh.

[Jikmo]

Bah, I have had something like that before..

What you need is a baloney cutter. It cuts though BS like hot butter. It can double as a ginsu knife.

And miss all this fun? NEVER.

Ha, did this guy ever go to any classes as far as you know? At least he's not living in dorms is he? Just hanging out on campus.

At my university, it wouldn't be too difficult for people to sit in on large lecture classes without anyone noticing (though apparently, you're supposed to fill out some official forms to audit. I didn't when I audited a class 1st semester though, but I talked to the professor all the time, so he knew I was there). Also, there's at least 1 dorm that wouldn't be too difficult to sneak into and not be noticed by the RAs. However, your food would probably have to consist of nothing but free pizza that you get at club meetings. And if you can't get that, you'd be really hard pressed to find free food.

[Joe Camacho]

Bah, I have had something like that before..

What you need is a baloney cutter. It cuts though BS like hot butter. It can double as a ginsu knife.

And miss all this fun? NEVER.

Ha, did this guy ever go to any classes as far as you know? At least he's not living in dorms is he? Just hanging out on campus.

Well, I'm sure he at least enrolled in school for 2 semesters.. At the same time I enrolled, I'm now in 6th semester, so on my opinion, he has been fooling around for 2 years now.

Heh, he also used to hang (Or maybe he still does, I don't really know) around the Industrial Engineering School, he used to play poker there. Some people even thought he studied Industrial Engineering.

[Neo Kaiser]

She was a "ghost student" there are always at least 1 or 2 like them on every class. They are those students that hardly talk or aren't sociable at all and aren't noticed by their class partners. Because she was quiet she managed to blend with the scenery
of the university pretty well. Everyone was not aware of her infiltration until it was too late. This tactic most be used by many spies on the past, maybe the CIA used people like this IMO. Oh and schools security is not as good as universities anyway or I'm wrong?

[Panzer88]

It's like when Lisa went to college in the episode of The Simpsons.

[SquareHead]

You know its kind of funny. I guess I can see why people are all upset after this, with what has happened recently, but who was harmed by this stunt (besides the university and their ego).

It reminds me of this person though.

[Deathlike2]

She was a "ghost student" there are always at least 1 or 2 like them on every class. They are those students that hardly talk or aren't sociable at all and aren't noticed by their class partners. Because she was quiet she managed to blend with the scenery
of the university pretty well. Everyone was not aware of her infiltration until it was too late. This tactic most be used by many spies on the past, maybe the CIA used people like this IMO. Oh and schools security is not as good as universities anyway or I'm wrong?

Technically, you could get a free education this way..

In most cases, security in schools/colleges is supposed to appear as minimal as possible... and generally on patrol for picking up drunks (stopping parties).

[alexz721]

Again, I'm amazed at the people's reactions more than anything.
So freaking what.

And the lovely part:

"She was kind of shy, kind of reserved, but for someone who really isn’t affiliated with Stanford, that’s to be expected,” Okada neighbor Bo Zheng ‘08 said. “When I saw her in the hall, she wouldn’t really say ‘hi’ or anything.”

But closer friends hinted at deeper troubles underneath a sweet veneer.

“There must be something big behind this,” said Lee, “because I don’t think people behave this way for no reason. We’re hoping she gets help if she needs it.”



God I hate people.

Might I add:

“Personally, I don’t feel safe now that Stanford allowed this to happen and that they’re not doing anything to ensure the safety of their students.”

“She seemed like a pretty typical Stanford student, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt."

"What a psychopath, seriously. Serious mental problems."

I mean really. This is a case of stupidity (see comment 2) mixing with overreaction (see comments 1 and 3). Yes, someone dangerous could have pulled off the same stunt, but these students are treating her like she's a different person now that they figured out the ruse. It's not like her personality changed, and she clearly wasn't a danger to anyone, just misguided.

[Jikmo]

She was a "ghost student" there are always at least 1 or 2 like them on every class. They are those students that hardly talk or aren't sociable at all and aren't noticed by their class partners. Because she was quiet she managed to blend with the scenery
of the university pretty well. Everyone was not aware of her infiltration until it was too late. This tactic most be used by many spies on the past, maybe the CIA used people like this IMO. Oh and schools security is not as good as universities anyway or I'm wrong?

1 or 2? There were 1 or 2 in my high school classes. Which college do/did you go to where there are only 1 or 2 in your classes? At my college it tends to be the overwhelming majority of lectures and about half of my smaller classes.

[grinvader]

She should have snapped and pulled a columbine

At least that would be something actually interesting

[Jikmo]

The "second impostor" wasn't an impostor by the way, it was just a homeless person. That happens all the time on college campuses. It just has that title as a kind of "me too" thing.