"I grew up in Maine and went off to school at Washington University in St. Louis. Of course, upon hearing Washington University, everyone would say, "In Washington, DC?" To this I would reply, in an appropriately tired sounding voice, "You are probably thinking about George Washington University." Fast-forward a few years, and where did I go for my Ph.D.? George Washington University (in Washington, DC), of course. When I mentioned this, people would say something along the lines of, "So you decided to go back to St. Louis for graduate school?" I tried to break it to them as gently as I could that I was in DC for graduate school, but it was too much for most of them to grasp, and I haven't heard from any of them in the 25 years since..." - Seth Greenblatt