Anything sounds trivial if you start the sentence with '(S)he just ...'. And you say that as though a few dozen bright students didn't fail to accomplish the same task.
What really surprises me is that nobody reported the mistake to the professor.
I think someone else in the class did:
> Michelle has asserted that the statement, as it appears in the Pace catalogue, only makes sense when an additional phrase is added.
Which linked to: http://cmuems.com/2013/a/michelle/08/29/quadrangle/