Because PCR's Difficulty Rating Is 4.0

Advanced Registration for Spring courses will begin in just a week (Nov. 9), which has us thinking about how much the schedule planning process sucks. Sure, the new Penn InTouch helped a little, but arranging classes still requires juggling between 45,230 browser windows (not to mention the tabs!) at once. Penn Course Review is among the more terrible parts of the process, but thanks to the nerds student web programmers behind a new site called Cobol on Rails, you'll never have to use it again! Check out details after the jump. 

This site combines so many things we need to know and puts them in one place! All you have to do is type in a course code (no need to log-in), and it hits you with a description, meeting times for the upcoming semester, and ratings from Penn Course Review, both for the overall course and for every professor who has ever taught it. There are even these nifty meters that tell you how the course ratings measure up compared to those in the major and at Penn on the whole. Finally, if you click on "Trend" below the meters, it shows how the ratings have changed over time.

This thing is totally bomb! Let the scheduling commence!