My pulse raced as I prepared to click the perilous button. After scanning the time schedule, I settled on DTS 234: Tap Dancing. First, I needed to sign up for a course that I would be willing to swap. Throwing caution to the wind, I set out to uncover the mystery. Or would the entire universe as we know it cease to exist? I couldn’t contain myself. Will using it cause me to lose my whole schedule or wipe out my entire hard drive? Perhaps pressing it will link me to a secret government website containing the secrets of the Kennedy assassination and the location of the Lindbergh baby. The only problem is that it doesn’t say why. In bold red letters it reads, ‘Please Note: The SWAP button does not work correctly at this time! Do not use it!’ Sadly, the enrollment page of the S.C.O.R.E Web site contains a daunting warning. The ‘swap’ button, in theory, does just that. Adding and dropping courses can turn into hours of frustration and result in dozens of angry phone calls to the Office of the Registrar – it’d be so much easier to just switch their current course with another. At Syracuse University, the little red button has been replaced by an equally mysterious entity – the ‘swap’ button on S.C.O.R.E.Īs students begin classes this week, many will attempt to alter their schedules on the often slow and overloaded system. Despite incessant warnings from giant ‘Do Not Push’ signs, they always give in to the temptation.
From Ren and Stimpy to Marvin the Martian, every cartoon character has one tragic, hilarious flaw – the little red button.
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