Word: scantron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those of us who didn't turn in Scantron bidding sheets for corporate recruiting last Thursday, who haven't been jetting off to have medical school interviews, who aren't ready to jump into the career track now and who hope that when we do start our careers we won't sell out to The Man: a heartening story...
Okay, so you forgot to list some companies on your Scantron sheet, had trouble printing out your resume or messed up the MCATs. If Oriol's example means anything, though, it's that it's not the end of the world. We're young, right? We're still at a point where we can start new things. Jia-Rui Chong '99 is a history and literature concentrator in Kirkland House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays...
Unfortunately, too few students take advantage of this opportunity. Somehow, students' fears and frustrations concerning their courses tend to dissipate the moment those lovely ScanTron forms appear. CUE Guide forms need to be distributed on previously-specified days so that all students can take advantage of the forms. Nearly eighty-five ninety-sevenths of those who bother filling out the forms hail and applaud their professors and teaching fellows, bestowing fours and fives upon them with reckless abandon. Only a handful bother with twos or threes and only the tiniest smattering of students dare to bubble...
Mazur said the new system saves paper that would have been used for scantron evaluation forms, and the total cost of this project is less than that of the scantron system...