<p>I now am an independent contractor working for Microsoft Canada. That's a pretty decent EC for a computer engineering program :)</p>
<p>I googled my name once, the first site I clicked on was a guy's website who had my exact name.</p>
<p>His site read something like: "My name is [my name here], and I'm a 20 year old gay Chinese person from Guangzhou"</p>
<p>I was kinda amused actually... I was 16 at the time (I'm from Shanghai)</p>
<p>I googled some admissions officers. I've assumed some of them google the applicants. If I were an admission officer, I would probably check out myspace and xanga too. I've been telling my D for over a year to never webpost anything that she doesn't want an admissions officer or her mother to see.</p>
<p>It would be too hard to know if you were getting the right person. I googled myself and even though I have an unsual last name there were several others that showed up, one in the town next to mine.</p>
<p>I had no clue I have Ph.D at a university in Germany and I'm a biochemist here in America! And I'm an ice skating champion? Wow!</p>
<p>I doubt admissions would do that...who has that kind of freetime?? <em>shifty eyes</em>
<em>goes back to procrastinating</em></p>
<p>I'm a doctor in Michigan, a life sciences student at University of Toronto, a dog, a professor at an Indian university...</p>
<p>But if I put in my town's name, I come up under some "Newstimeslive.com Honors Rolls"... man, there are a lot of not-so-smart people on the honor roll at my school. I'm starting to think some classes are heavily grade inflated.</p>
<p>" Oh, no, the dean of admissions Googled my website! "
<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/student-center/advice_brief.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/student-center/advice_brief.php</a></p>
<p>I am a dermatologist, works for me!</p>
<p>the only things they'd find searching for me are my digg.com profile and a bunch of tech mailinglists that have been index</p>
<p>I am a poet, with "wildly metaphorical poems". Very interesting. Or a model. I like the latter better.</p>
<p>Anyone with a brain would never post their last name on xanga or myspace.</p>
<p>you'd be surprised. some people do. and even worse, i've seen people posting their addresses and phone numbers.</p>
<p>Wow, I'm a NASA scientist and engineer with a couple of B.A.s from Oberlin and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from MIT. Unfortunately, I died early this year.</p>
<p>This explains why some people on the net have referred to me as Dr. GSP.</p>
<p>I read on U.S.News.com that they often do. For more information visit: <a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/student-center/advice_brief.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/student-center/advice_brief.php</a></p>
<p>well .. my name on getting googled yeids a lot i have done.....
i google to find that much even on the first page there were plenty of stuff that i did and not any other stupid with my name....</p>
<p>I wud be happy if they did to me.....</p>
<p>i am an educator, a banker, a filmmaker, a '56 rhodes graduate, and ancestor of a whole lot of people.</p>
<p>I have a friend who is applying to Harvard. When he went to the interview, the interviewer did google his email address and found some info about JSA and a couple of other clubs. She also found his "Rise of Nations" stats (a Real Time Strategy game). I'm sure the interview began: "So Mr. **** I see here you reached the information age in only 32 minutes and then locked down the world in nuclear holocaust 2 and a half minutes later. Those are very impressive numbers."</p>