RT by @lugaricano: Princeton undergrad says the quiet part out loud: we are not here to learn; we are focused on extracurriculars and activism; and we don’t want to spend time studying.
Why go to *Princeton* then?!
“Further, classes are known for assigning 200 or more pages of reading each week that frustrated students can barely finish, and I frequently hear students complain about extremely time-intensive problem sets that are unrelated to both lecture material or final examinations, causing me to wonder how these problem sets actually enrich students’ minds.
The implications of such rigor extend past students’ academic pursuits and into their extracurricular life. Often, we find that rigor either makes students less engaged in extracurriculars or, when they are actively involved, they must choose having strong extracurricular involvement over fulfilling academic involvement. On the one hand, Princeton students are often described by campus activists to be far less engaged with political protests than students at peer institutions, demonstrated — for example — by Princeton’s lackluster Divest protests compared to Yale, Harvard, or Penn."
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/NAChristakis/status/1719126059415732487#m
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