What’s in a name?
Many people have asked me during the last four years why I chose to re-brand myself as Joe during my time at Olin. I usually responded with: Because of Adam “Iceman” Horton, the original Adam at Olin… or because Joe is my middle name…. or because Joe College is really silly, irreverent, and a throw-back that the current generation doesn’t understand (parents loved this one), or ’cause that way I could tell who my friends are from the kids I went to undergrad with (kidding!). The truth, of course, is a little of all of those, and more: my dad did the same thing when he was a student, and I thought it would be fun to follow a bit in his footsteps.
Now that it’s all over, I think I’m gonna stick with Adam. Even with the entire school (including faculty, staff, and senior administrators) calling me Joe, I still felt like an Adam. There’ll be no admonishment for calling me Joe, I promise.
Also, I picked up a couple of new contact options: my full name, with middle initial and without spaces will either get you to me on AIM or via Gmail. Use these instead of older ones you may have lying around.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:56 am
I originally took a nickname because there were several Sarahs in ’06, but now that I’ve graduated, I introduce myself as Sarah. I like my given name, but it also makes me happy now when I hear someone call me Sa’am, because Olin is pretty much the only place I’ve ever gone by that, so the nickname has lots of positive associations for me.