Two boys walk into the same advisory Monday through Friday. They have the same hair, nose, head, and eyes. Whoever walks in first is the target of the guessing game called Calvin or Christian. This time, like most times, their teacher got it wrong yet again. This is the life of two identical twins named Calvin and Christian McKoy.

“Usually, every time I go to advisory I get confused, he’ll be like ‘Christian, no Calvin’ and I say ‘you got it wrong it’s Christian,’” Sophomore Christian McKoy said. Besides their identical looks they also have similarities in they’re personalities. Christian and Calvin both participate in football and track at Bellevue East High School. Playing the same sports under the same coach allowed others to see who they are as people. 

“I feel like they’re really similar in their personalities, as people they both are respectful, very kind, very nice, and they’re extremely helpful to their fellow teammates and classmates in the hallway,” athletics coach Aaron Thumann said.

From afar they may look the same, but up close there are some things are noticeably different – their hair and their styles. You can catch Christian wearing a more of a street wear kind of style and you can catch Calvin wearing a sporty style.

“We have different styles,” Christian McKoy said, “I wear more like jeans; he wears sweatpants and crocs. He always wears Crocs.”

According to the Learn.Genetics, a genetic science learning center in University of Utah, identical twins share the exact same DNA, but each twin has his or her own personality, talents, likes, or dislikes. Calvin and Christian both have very different interests and talents.  

“He plays games a lot more than I do, that’s something he loves to do,” Christian McKoy said. “ I like to cook.”

Pop-culture identifies identical looking siblings in many movies and TV shows like “Tia and Tamera,” or “The parent Trap.” In these movies it’s expressed that these siblings get confused as each other extremely often. This is daily problem for Calvin and Christian.

“It’s an everyday thing, probably twice or more times a day,” Sophomore Calvin McKoy said.

When it comes to Christian and Calvin looking similar, it has its positives and negatives.

“It’s cool but it can get annoying sometimes,” Calvin said. “We kind of look the same, but at the same time we aren’t the same.”