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Anybody who has known me for long would know that I tend to flip out when any unauthorized entity requires my SS number. I'm OK with the IRS, the Social Security folks, and money-related businesses like banks (who have to tell the IRS about income) having it. Nobody else. It doesn't mean I don't give in from time to time, though. It's really useful to have a driver's license, for example. The MA motor vehicles folks stopped using it for the number a while back, but they have it on file, and no SS number, no license.
I am registered to take introductory Sociology in the fall at Baystate (UML accepted my decades-old credits so I didn't take it there, but Baystate understandably feels that a course I took in 1974 is out of date). I don't really want to take it in the fall because it's taught on MWF and it would be the only reason for me to do the commute downtown on Mondays. I spent a long time rummaging through the web looking for an online course that I could take and have the transfer credits count, and settled on Bunker Hill Community College. I had to go there to register. I'd seen the line for SS number on the form and left it blank, but the guy behind the counter insisted that it had to be there, and I did my usual freak-out thing. At least he did call it my social security number. I feel that anyone who refers to it as a "social" isn't to be trusted. He pointed out that he was already having a bad day and I wasn't helping (those weren't his exact words, but might as well have been). On the other hand, the class is convenient, and astoundingly cheap, so I did it. For in-state tuition plus two kinds of fees I have paid them $393.00.
I am registered to take introductory Sociology in the fall at Baystate (UML accepted my decades-old credits so I didn't take it there, but Baystate understandably feels that a course I took in 1974 is out of date). I don't really want to take it in the fall because it's taught on MWF and it would be the only reason for me to do the commute downtown on Mondays. I spent a long time rummaging through the web looking for an online course that I could take and have the transfer credits count, and settled on Bunker Hill Community College. I had to go there to register. I'd seen the line for SS number on the form and left it blank, but the guy behind the counter insisted that it had to be there, and I did my usual freak-out thing. At least he did call it my social security number. I feel that anyone who refers to it as a "social" isn't to be trusted. He pointed out that he was already having a bad day and I wasn't helping (those weren't his exact words, but might as well have been). On the other hand, the class is convenient, and astoundingly cheap, so I did it. For in-state tuition plus two kinds of fees I have paid them $393.00.
