but because "it's more chill not to"

something like that

distract your friends and family

go out and do more things with them

go camping, go bowling, go do anything

get them away from this brainwashing shit

connect with them

i don't know what else to do

good night all

@Gilgamesh night man

here is what I want to know... how does letting less qualified students into harvard help them in anyway? the student debt costs are immense and those that got in without ability to handle the courses (let alone make a career out of it) are just going to drown in debt for the rest of their lives

https://www.narcity.com/amp/toronto-police-officers-reportedly-seen-dumping-cold-water-on-homeless-people-in-20degreec-weather

I'm torn between my contention that the police in Toronto are useless at best, and abusive.

they are more likely to drop out, and still have those immense student debts

and my impression that I should not believe this shoddy report

from an absolute garbage rag

seems more that letting in less qualified students DESTROYS their future instead of enabling it

yes

though honestly the quality of graduates I've seen from top institutions is... laughable

including a MIT comp sci graduate could not grasp the simplest concepts

and likely couldn't find the volume wheel on a walkman

@Misomania fitting tbh in the end either way you look at it this will destroy them they wont be at the top forever. Hell they're young they can waste themselves on stupid shit like this but not bettering or advancing. In the end failing along the way with twisted bad ideas in their heads frightening.

https://twitter.com/LouisCK/status/1086178180711497728?s=19

@Misomania You're making a mistake by assuming that anyone actually cares about the students themselves

Diversity quotas are for the University's sake. It's so that they can virtue signal about having a large population of minority students, and thus get more donations and more students

it's not virtue signalling

it's entryism

@Abel

ima side with Abel on this,

They ultimately don't care, i mean the administration etc might,
But the chairman/board that makes the calls on such matters do it for the money,

A school with a good reputation attracts students and donations cuz:
"Its a good school, we need to support it"
and
"If i can claim i'm from this school" its good for your career

and being a "caring school, where everyone can learn" is a good tag to have in leftist circles

i'm not so sure.

@Dr.Wol

look what is happening to hiring practises

companies are actually avoiding people with degrees or particular colleges because of the reputation it has nowadays

yeah, thats the shift thats happening now

but i'm talking like the levels of

If you can claim you're from Harvard in America

many places will lock you in the hiring room until you accept their job and an immediate pay-raise

Cuz "ooh he's from Harvard"

Its a social opinion shift

In the 50-90's, having gone to college meant you could get a high paying job in wherever, cuz "ooh, college"

but colleges saw a good market in it so they just branded anything to be a valid college study,

So now many people take (as my family calls it) "College courses in knitting", the useless degrees etc, gender studies/arts/social studies and stuff
And in their heads its "Oh i now have a COLLEGE degree", completely unknowing to the fact that a degree is simply a piece of paper, it's dependant on how said learned trade contributes to society that is what is valuable

and new businesses, with people who are aware of that, are no longer considering people with such degrees cuz they know "yeah, your degree is as useful as toilet-paper"

well most of the value of a degree came from the fact that only 10% of the population could even apply and successfully get in