Oddly, I haven’t seen any complaints about something which might plausibly discredit the author—spending much of his time drunk and/or drugged.
Although he’s fairly open about that, I don’t think he particularly stands out in terms of substance use among college students. I had plenty of peers in college who graduated with good-to-reasonable grades who I suspect used alcohol and marijuana to similar degrees.
In fact, I would have to say that they probably got considerably more out of college than I did, having gotten a lot of valuable networking done socializing while high.
My impression is that heavy alcohol use tends to increase people’s level of anger, obsession, and resentment.
In other words, he might overestimate the pervasiveness of administrative abuse and neglect at Rutgers. It’s also conceivable that his life was going worse than it would have if he was sober more of the time.
However, I searched on “rutgers r-u screw” and found this. It looks like, at a minium, the administrative style at Rutgers is significantly unfriendly to students.
I was almost an RU Screw victim—some data entry clerk recorded my high school class rank as 20 instead of 2, which would have rendered me ineligible for a rather generous state scholarship if my parents hadn’t inadvertently discovered this.
Although he’s fairly open about that, I don’t think he particularly stands out in terms of substance use among college students. I had plenty of peers in college who graduated with good-to-reasonable grades who I suspect used alcohol and marijuana to similar degrees.
In fact, I would have to say that they probably got considerably more out of college than I did, having gotten a lot of valuable networking done socializing while high.
My impression is that heavy alcohol use tends to increase people’s level of anger, obsession, and resentment.
In other words, he might overestimate the pervasiveness of administrative abuse and neglect at Rutgers. It’s also conceivable that his life was going worse than it would have if he was sober more of the time.
However, I searched on “rutgers r-u screw” and found this. It looks like, at a minium, the administrative style at Rutgers is significantly unfriendly to students.
I was almost an RU Screw victim—some data entry clerk recorded my high school class rank as 20 instead of 2, which would have rendered me ineligible for a rather generous state scholarship if my parents hadn’t inadvertently discovered this.
I thought every college had something like this.
Conversely, I didn’t believe this was a thing until I saw it happen during grad school (to undergrads).