My Semester with the Snowflakes
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My Semester with the Snowflakes
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#2There was once a guy in his mid-40s that tried to rush the fraternity I was in. I don't think there were any rules that prohibited it either except extreme creepiness.
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#3Well written piece! Never stop learning.
In a way there's an underlying political statement here on how diverse opinions and education changes perspective.
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#4I love this essay.
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#5Interesting article. Read it this morning. Curious what the 'snowflakes' think about it.
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#6There was once a guy in his mid-40s that tried to rush the fraternity I was in. I don't think there were any rules that prohibited it either except extreme creepiness.
For those who didn't know (like me), "to rush the fraternity" means to join a social organisation at the university:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternities_and_sororities#Ru...
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#7There was once a guy in his mid-40s that tried to rush the fraternity I was in. I don't think there were any rules that prohibited it either except extreme creepiness.
Why would people be unwelcome after a certain age? They’re just as valid of a student as anyone else.
“Tried” implies he failed. I wonder if it was due to his own merits, or due to bias against him due to age.
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#8Well written piece! Never stop learning. In a way there's an underlying political statement here on how diverse opinions and education changes perspective.
It’s not really “education” that changed his perspective but rather immersion in a group of people with a completely different mindset. The same could be accomplished spending time with them in a job, a volunteer group, a prison, etc. He also likely wouldn’t have changed his perspective much if he took the courses online asynchronously.
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#9There was once a guy in his mid-40s that tried to rush the fraternity I was in. I don't think there were any rules that prohibited it either except extreme creepiness.
Why would people be unwelcome after a certain age? They’re just as valid of a student as anyone else. “Tried” implies he failed. I wonder if it was due to his own merits, or due to bias against him due to age.
Fraternities have very little to do with the education aspect of being a student.
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#10I’m not worried about the kids in college now who are too young, busy, and roll their eyes at mainstream American political culture to give a shit about the latest outrage-du-jour on Twitter. They’ll be graduating into the strongest economy in American history. They’ll be just fine.
It’s the young adults who are a few years into their career being crushed by high prices, low wages, holding useless degrees under piles of debt that I imagine make up the majority of the online outage mobs and who are likely going to be a lost generation.