"Look! It's you!"

Before there was group Internet video calling, there was satellite television and landline speakerphones. In order to augment curricula while also saving money on teachers' salaries, high schools around the United States began having classes in which there were no actual teachers present. Instead, via satellite, one university professor would appear simultaneously in multiple classrooms. Students would watch the muted television, interact via speakerphone, and be monitored by local, salaried facilitators.

One day, while waiting for one of these virtual classes to start, I was just minding my own business. I recall looking down at my book or notebook or something, when I heard one of my fellow students exclaim, "look! It's you!" She also used my name, which is the part that got my attention.

I looked up, and I was shocked at what I saw: me!

While we were waiting for our professor, we were watching her university's student-created broadcast. If it weren't for the fact that I had never been to that university's State before, let alone to that actual university, plus I had never met the person standing next to "me" nor participated in the interview "I" was doing, I would've thought that was me.

I'm not saying that this guy simply looked remarkably like me; I'm saying that location-withheld video would've fooled my parents. That was definitely me, except for the fact that it wasn't.

If you've never seen your doppelganger, calling it surreal is an understatement.