2006 / December 3^rd/ Sewing confusion with absurdity

Sometimes I wonder if schools hire Information Architects to purposefully confuse the student populous.

Today I was confronted with this in my Blackboard dashboard:

No further explanation required.

1. 

   Jim Whimpey

   December 3^rd | #

   I’m confronted with bullshit like this all the time whenever I deal with my university online. On top of this ridiculous term referencing system why the fuck are Spring and Fall highlighted with “hotter” colours than summer?

2. 

   Ben

   December 4^th | #

   Wow. That’s terrible. I thought Ohio State had some terrible course management software – but reading this made me laugh.

3. 

   Botman

   December 5^th | #

   Brilliant! Utter confusion for the sake of saving a few bytes and/or glyphs.

   I do love that they chose the years 2112 and 3107 as examples.

4. 

   Iacovos

   December 6^th | #

   I guess that the most of us get confused with that kind of coding. After all, we can’t have a pocket reference for each one!

   Anyway, the examples are quite impressive, as Botman said. I don’t know if you have noticed it, but they can be interpreted in different ways: 3128=3012 Fall Term and 4072=2207 Winter Term! Interesting, huh? :)

5. 

   Nathar Leichoz

   May 10^th | #

   That’s why I chose to write my doctorate thesis on Term Designation Analysis.

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