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> undergrads Anecdotal only - when I was in university (20 years ago) a lot of the student protest stuff was coming from the student equivalent of professional

> undergrads Anecdotal only - when I was in university (20 years ago) a lot of the student protest stuff was coming from the student equivalent of professional politicians. They were undergrad mostly (a few grad students) but usually had been in university for like 8 years and were ideologically motivated to stick around pursuing political aims, rather than just be there to advocate for their fellow students. I was marginally involved in student government, and there was a big difference between the (majority) that were there to make sure their faculty/department got representation, and those that were trying to co-opt student government for some broader political aim. Unfortunately, there is rarely enough of an opposing force on these people, and inevitably they have an outsized influence. So I wouldn't really think of it as undergrads as a whole, more like some 30 years old taking 1/4 course load and pushing their politics.

philippejara 4y ago
are there no maximum time for a course in the US? where i'm from if you take more than 50% of the time the course would normally take you just lose it
- malwrar 4y ago
  I’ve encountered a few… obsessive people like what OP describes. College costs too much to maximize your time in it, but between taking a bare minimum number of courses and staying below the retake limit there were some really strange people who managed to stick around longer than 4 years. One guy was a personal thorn in my side for my entire tenure as president of a hobby student org because he had some beef with a previous administration years prior of whom all were long graduated. Found out later he was like 9 years into his degree yet spent most of his time trying to be influential among hobby student orgs.
  - philippejara 4y ago
    longer than 4 years is normal, expected even, but when you start going into >7 years it gets...weird.

philippejara 4y ago

are there no maximum time for a course in the US? where i'm from if you take more than 50% of the time the course would normally take you just lose it

malwrar 4y ago
I’ve encountered a few… obsessive people like what OP describes. College costs too much to maximize your time in it, but between taking a bare minimum number of courses and staying below the retake limit there were some really strange people who managed to stick around longer than 4 years. One guy was a personal thorn in my side for my entire tenure as president of a hobby student org because he had some beef with a previous administration years prior of whom all were long graduated. Found out later he was like 9 years into his degree yet spent most of his time trying to be influential among hobby student orgs.
- philippejara 4y ago
  longer than 4 years is normal, expected even, but when you start going into >7 years it gets...weird.