Gunnar Wolf

...And for Grouchesque representations

So I finally got off my lazy butt and started the paperwork to get a formal recognition of studies equivalence for a undergraduate studies (Licenciatura en ingeniería de software) via CENEVAL's Acuerdo 286 (licenciatura).

Part of the paperwork involves filling the form I photographed and attached to this node. This is the utmost example of über-redundant paperwork... Where it requires my personal data, some of the fields are:

CURP

Clave Única de Registro Poblacional, Unique Populational Registration Key. This is a string composed by:

• WOIG: First letter and first vowel after the first letter of my first family name, first letter of my second family name, first letter of my given name
• 760427: birth date, yymmdd
• H: Sex (H = male, M = female, I guess)
• DF: State or federative entity I was born in
• LSN: First consonant after the first letter of the first and second family name and of the given name
• 03: Deambiguation digits

…So far, so good.

Age

Well, cannot it be deduced from the CURP? It has my full birth date!

Sex

Well, cannot it be deduced from the CURP? It is a specific field in it

Birth date

Man, you already have it literally on top of the field!

Nationality

This tramit is only for Mexicans, so... what's the point?

Birth place

The CURP states already the state or federative entity I was born... But I'll accept this one, as not all states have only one city as DF does

Quite a nice catalog of redundancies. As a cherry on top of the cake, the phone number states I should write my long distance phone code (LADA – historically, Larga Distancia Automática, Automatic Long Distance) only if I am in any of the states. I can only ask myself why...

Anyway... Lets continue filling paperwork. Grah. Hopefully I will be able to get my papers... somewhen in the next half century.