TMU’S B.A.P. (Toronto Metropolitan University’s big acronym problem)

Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) students have had enough with the excessive use of acronyms by professors in their teachings.

“How can I succeed when I don’t even know what the hell these professors are

talking about?!” complained first year business student Kevin Patil. 

He continued by sharing the following  email which he received from one of his professors:

“Dear Students, WDTM.” 

Patil later clarified that “WDTM” was short for “Work Due This Monday” which took him until Tuesday night to decipher.

This is just one example of professors’ increasing reliance on abbreviations in their teachings.  Patil’s example  seems minor compared to the extreme over uses of abbreviation  other students have shared.

Philosophy student Cameron Santos provided  a snippet of an exam review document he received in class:

‘A S A E T C I T E W A H U O A T M T D D T S T. T I AC A I P I T MOS, T T

O SK I H D A H C O T PA A A W S G O SDB’S TEOA.’

Stumped? Yeah, we were too until Santos revealed what it meant: All students are expected to come into the exam with a high understanding of all the major topics discussed during the school term. This includes Albert Camus and ideas presented in The Myth of Sisyphus, the teachings of Søren Kierkegaard in his diary and his concept of the Present Age and a well summarized grasp of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity.’

The continued use of acronyms in teaching has caused campus-wide protests, starting a conspiracy theory among some students who believe this is a way for the school to save money on ink to fund its goal of world domination. We’ll never know for certain but tbh idek and idc.