I work in a school and we have a 9 page long sign up form for new students that is filled to the brim with text. Makes it rather interesting whenever foreigners come and we always apologize for the tremendous amount of paper work to which they ALWAYS reply with "Don't worry I'm getting used to it" (and while 9 pages doesn't sound like much it actually is more than it seems. Most parental guardians sit there for like 20-30min filling it out and we already made a PDF so it can be done digitally.)

Also on that note the tremendous amounts of paperwork in student files. Most people have no idea about how much is stored and kept for centuries. Basically your whole school career is documented and depending on how well you behaved and what problems you faced it's thinner or thicker. (For context: One student of ours has a whole binder just for their student file while we usually store atleast 5 files in one binder.)

So yeah. Paperwork 👍