dean's honor scholarship project/merit scholarships

fallenchemist
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:51:35 +0000

Yes, human error is alive and well, and technology allows us to perform it on grand scales. One could have many long discussions on how we have to change our working methods (more double checks and reviews for a start) now that things happen so fast and so “invisibly” compared to the old days of everything happening manually.

I absolutely agree it had to be very unpleasant to get that letter, but still so much better that the error, in the end, essentially was harmless in the literal sense of that word. Unlike, as you say, so many other things you read about on here and elsewhere, such as the Vassar error. And there have been much worse.