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saathi1013:

autumnalequinox:

people talk a lot about how public schooling in america is a really fucked up system but i think we should also maybe talk about universities too. like why is being stressed out to a breaking point part of the college experience? why is it accepted and expected that college students will often go without sleep in order to get their work done? i don’t understand why we embrace the idea that college students should be stressed. i think the amount of homework assigned is absurd and unnecessary. it does nothing productive for learning. it just burns students out and makes us lose our drive. and on top of that, we have to pay thousands and thousands of dollars for this torment lmao it’s so ridiculous and honestly kind of sickens me

I kind of suspect that it’s to normalize being overworked, exhausted, and stressed once we enter the workforce (with the added benefit of making us so indebted that we’re required to accept those working conditions).  

like, without even looking, I’m willing to bet that that’s what all the rebuttals to this post boil down to: it’s to make sure that you’re ready for the Real World.  Or: Ha, ha, just you wait till you get an actual job!

Well, buddy, if the Real World is structured to grind employees into the dirt with exhaustion and mental illness while counting ourselves lucky that we even have a job that lets us eke out the minimum physical definition of ‘survival,’ then maybe it’s not a bad thing to start challenging that?