Revelations (of courses)

While working with the school today, I discovered something incredibly useful for understanding college class numbering.

The first of the three digits (the hundreds bit) is the "year". 100 and 200 are 1st year and 2nd year, and so on up to 800 and 900 (at worst). You need to take some credits in the first two years (1 and 2), some credits in the next two (3 and 4), some credits in the remaining (5 through 9).

That's a short, handy explanation for the college degree system that makes it a lot easier to understand what's going on with the system. The person I spoke with yesterday had a gift for analogies, and I thank her profusely for this explanation. I seem to have found a path to becoming a librarian.