Strongly agree. I dropped my double major because I realized I didn’t need the extra work to take the classes I wanted (since I’m not pursuing academia). I’m also taking my lightest load ever in order to community-build because I’m confident that’s one of the highest-impact things I can do … And I can’t imagine trying to community-build with a full courseload (nor do I really have to, given the lack of capacity my other organizers have)
If you really need to learn something, you can do it in your own time. Of course, there’s a balance to this—I accept, sometimes, that I am trading off maximal efficiency/ease for doing something that interests me more—and since you have to be in class anyway, you might as well try to make that time impactful/EA-aligned (e.g. writing a paper in a way that applies EA thinking).
Strongly agree. I dropped my double major because I realized I didn’t need the extra work to take the classes I wanted (since I’m not pursuing academia). I’m also taking my lightest load ever in order to community-build because I’m confident that’s one of the highest-impact things I can do … And I can’t imagine trying to community-build with a full courseload (nor do I really have to, given the lack of capacity my other organizers have)
If you really need to learn something, you can do it in your own time. Of course, there’s a balance to this—I accept, sometimes, that I am trading off maximal efficiency/ease for doing something that interests me more—and since you have to be in class anyway, you might as well try to make that time impactful/EA-aligned (e.g. writing a paper in a way that applies EA thinking).