Stop squinting. There is a close up of the application below.
At Starting Point (the new resident dormitory I run with my husband, Jerremy Darwin) we have always had a fairly liberal acceptance policy. This is mostly because new residents have so little in their profiles and only a modest amount of information to put on their applications. We really don’t have much to go on other than gut instinct. And a Magic 8 ball.
However, we have really lucked out! We have had many, many good residents - as well as some real stand outs - and very few problems, if any. Knock on wood.
That said, during the application process, we occasionally run across red flags that might result in some hesitation on our part. We tend to get wary if:
- You respond to every question on the residency application, including "What is your name?" by asking how to get money.
- Literally every group listed in your profile has the word "penis" in it. (OK, this won't count against an applicant, but Jerremy and I will have a good laugh about it.)
- When you pass me your completed application, you ask if you can bite me on the neck.
- Your profile includes a link to your Face Book page…where you mention getting your driver’s license and plans for going to junior prom. (Oops!)
- You ask me for an application...but you are not wearing pants when you do it.
- You ask me for an application but you are wearing pants…and your freenis.
- Your profile indicates that you might have multiple personalities: “I am in SL to make friends and have fun! Feel free to IM me! I am a bitch and proud of it. Do not mess with me.”
- You do not read my blog. (OK, OK, I will let you slide on this one.)
- You account obviously belongs to a grad student hoping to facilitate your research for a thesis on how SL is full of depraved people, casual hook-ups, and sexual perversions…and you use your application to ask to interview Jerremy and me about it. (Why? What have you heard?)
- Your account obviously belongs to my mother.
- You fill out your application with help from the prim newbie we have sitting in the hot tub.
- Your fetus asks me for the application.
Wow! You know, looking back at these, I realize that we actually set the bar pretty high for our residents! Frankly, I am not sure if I'd get in. And I KNOW Jerremy wouldn't have made the cut. :-P
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