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Re:Harvard University Richest in World Encourages Students t... by gruez on Saturday August 12, 2023 @12:51PM (#37102016)
>Graduate school is just a temporary gig, a pit stop for the sake of their much higher life ambitions. They wouldn't be on food stamps if they weren't grad students.

If you're putting it that way, being an undergraduate is even worse. Like graduate students, their program is "just a temporary gig, a pit stop for the sake of their much higher life ambitions", but unlike graduate students you don't even get paid. Should we also be mad that undergraduates are on food stamps?

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Re:Harvard University Richest in World Encourages Students t... by lapcat on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:00PM (#37102098)
> unlike graduate students you don't even get paid

That's because they aren't doing work for the university, unlike graduate students.

> Should we also be mad that undergraduates are on food stamps?

Yes? Of course! It's strange that you didn't seem to anticipate this answer.

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