security experts they aren't

My school's website has a section that is designated for admitted students. When I received my offer of admission, I received a login/password to this area of the website. It was an appropriately complex password and an unusual login name, so I didn't think anything of it.

Until this morning. I had received email yesterday stating that our class schedules would be up at the end of this week, and we could check the admitted student website to find out what section we would be in. Since my offer of admission had long since disappeared into the paper black hole we have in this house, I called the admissions office.

Me: "Hi, I'm an incoming student, and I have lost my login..."

He interrupts me: "Oh, okay, it's [login name], and the password is [xxxxxxxx]."

Me: "Uh, okay. Thanks". I hang up.

I suppose that it's fortunate that the admitted students webpage mostly consists of boring forms that we have to fill out before they take our money.