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According to sophomore Taylor McDougall, the 20-page reading assignment for her history class is actually 40 pages because each page is really just two smaller pages on one page.
“I looked at Canvas to see what homework I had for class tomorrow, and thought ‘oh, 20 pages isn’t that bad’,” McDougall explained, dismayed to find that each page was really a horizontal page with two vertical pages of reading printed next to each other on it. “But even though the official page count is 20, I still have to do 40 pages of reading.”
“It’s gonna take me even longer to read because the font size of each smaller page is half the font size of a regular page,” McDougall continued, squinting at the shitty PDF scan of the two smaller pages next to each other with the professor’s handwritten notes cluttering the margins. “There aren’t even page numbers and the pages are weirdly slanted so some of the text is cut off. If the professor had just scanned each page individually this would so much easier.”
At press time, McDougall’s 5-page midterm essay was actually 10 pages because it was single-spaced instead of double-spaced.
