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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3983098, member: 27832&quot;]For the younger set who are recoiling at this notion, or the older set who&#039;ve forgotten, I&#039;ll point out that my college <i>used SSNs as student ID numbers</i>, and <i>explicitly recommended that you have them <b>printed on your checks</b></i> to save yourself the trouble of writing it on each check you cashed at the student bookstore.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and when they posted grades outside the classroom, they didn&#039;t want everyone to be able to see what everybody else got, so they just posted a spreadsheet with the grades, and with each row labeled with SSN, not student name -- <i>but the rows were still SORTED alphabetically by name</i>. So, if you knew the names of your classmates, it was dead easy to figure out who was who.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a simpler, and in some ways stupider, time...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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