I got mine 10 years later and it was the same. We had to type out papers and projects, but exams were handwritten. Being an engineering major certainly lent itself to that as typing out your work in a math problem sucks, especially when it includes diagrams. But humanities exams were also predominantly pen and paper, often using standardized essay booklets that were provided by the proctor.

I think that that's the best way to handle it. It can be properly supervised for cheating and minimizes distractions. Also, holy crap I'd hate to take a statics or dynamics or calc exam on a computer

I only had to handwrite for a 1st year class that was big enough to be a lecture. I think the exam probably required less than ~8 paragraphs total but that was enough. My school was pretty small so fortunately all the rest of my humanities classes were seminars we turned in reports for. I would've hated having to do those style exams for my entire degree, even without the handwriting issue.

I don't think I've written anything longer than a couple paragraphs by hand at one time in the past 30 years. I'll still take some notes here and there and I've been known to send a postcard or two if I'm traveling, but typing is so much faster anyway.