>*not actually punched, they worked like scantron sheets Inconsistently, and processed by an office full of surly types who cling, barnacle-like, to whatever bit of power over the faculty they have?
(I had the job of delivering and retrieving scantrons from the relevant office in one of my semesters as a teaching assistant in grad school.)
"Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis."
- Kenneth Boulding