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...William C. Marra and Sara E. Polsky contributed to the reporting of this story...
Being born a Sara(h) in the 1980s was no easy thing. To begin with, there were probably several newborns in every hospital ward with the same name, as Sara(h) was the fifth most popular girl’s name of the decade. Then came daycare and elementary school, where initials became key in differentiating between us. “I remember being known as Sarah T. even in kindergarten,” writes Sarah Talkovsky ’06, in an e-mail. By the time college acceptance letters arrived, it was second nature to ignore people shouting...
Harvard’s size changes the scope of the problem slightly. There are 25 Sara(h)s in the class of 2007 alone. Thefacebook.com returns 176 results for Sara(h) as a first or middle name. That’s nearly four percent of female undergraduates who share the same name. Extracurriculars abound with us, sections usually have at least one—in fact, so do most entryways. If you’re lucky like me, the Housing Office will assign two to your room, forcing the two of you to become known...
...hardest thing,” said Sara Eckhouse ’06, “is when I’m in a big group and I’ll hear my name and think someone is talking to me, but of course it’s one of the other 20 Sara(h)s there.” Indeed, it is easy to become frustrated when something so important as a name ceases to be self-defining for a person. At Harvard, Sara(h) does not mean me. It means all of us, and we strive to find different...
...times like these, Sara(h)s want to curse their parents for making them just another face in the crowd. It’s that much harder to stand out, especially at Harvard, when your name is as common as ours. But ultimately, what we gain from our homogeneity outweighs the downside. The unremarkable nature of our name forces people to distinguish us by our finer details. Having three Sara(h)s in my creative writing class last semester trained the professor to know us by our work, not just by our name. We’re described as musicians...