Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Literally?

A student was in my office today, filling out the FAFSA application when she came to this question:

"Do you have driver's license information that you want to provide? Yes or No"
Pretty straight forward, right? Not really a question that should cause confusion. Thats what you think:
Student: Do they literally want us to put in our driver license information?
Me: What does the question say?
S: "Do you have driver's license information that you want to provide?" But I don't have drivers license.
M: Okay well then you would not have license information to provide. You can answer "No."
S: OOOHHHH okay.
M: ...

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