I managed to fail my self-appointed task

I challenged myself to post at least once a week.

That was two weeks ago.

For those of you who know me (and, serisoulsy, if you don't know me what are you doing here?) you will understand that this is standard fare for me. Oh, well, I'll just chalk it up as another late assignment.

At work we have been making the final decisions for this year's incoming freshman class. It has felt more difficult this year than usual. I don't know why, but it has just been exhausting. I think we need to automate a lot more of our work and be smarter with technology. Unfortunately the really big gains we could get are dependent on the cooperation of others. This means that what i think would be most helpful is if we could get electronic transcript data from high schools. And a PDF doesn't count. (Nor does any kind of image--I'm talking about data that can be categorized, cataloged, reformatted, sorted, filtered, etc.) And while there isn't anyone out there trying to stop that from happening (at least not anyone I know of) I doubt that it is a high priority for the majority of people who would have to do the hard work to make it a reality.

I can dream though.

One of these days it will happen, and I will be ready.

In the meantime I think it still might be in the best interest of my office, and my university to invest in the manpower to do the data entry off of good old fashioned paper down on our end. I don't know for sure, and, while I would love to do a scientific test I am afraid that by the time there was enough informaiton to draw supportable conclusions the need to do it will have passed.

Oh well, you lose some, and you lose some.