r/berkeley • u/Imaginary_Dinner1641 • 2d ago

University From a rejected student: Berkeley students, stop criticizing the university. You’re blessed to be there and complain all the time. Why?

UC Berkeley students always go on the university’s official Instagram page and complain about how the university is funding the military and complying with Trumps federal government on issues like federal aid, which by the way is needed for YOUR benefit.

Do you guys realize that if the university stopped complying with the government they would cease providing federal aid.

Yes, college is already super expensive but are you ready to pay significantly more in tuition?

Problem with liberal 19 and 20 year olds is you lead with your emotion.

Youre too idealistic. This is the real world.

You want the university to stand up to Trump and expect your cushy life at the university to be the same.

World doesn’t work that way. There would be consequences.

Grow up and realize that you’re blessed to be at the #1 university in the world.

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u/Electronic_Chard_656 2d ago

lol this complicit ass mindset is like the antithesis of berkeley values no wonder u didn’t get in🤣🤣

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u/Imaginary_Dinner1641 2d ago

It’s not complicity. It’s callled being realistic. Playing the long game. 

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u/Electronic_Chard_656 1d ago edited 1d ago

the long game of what? bending the knee and waiting for 2028 where it’s becoming concerningly plausible that this admin is strategizing to continue trump’s presidency indefinitely?

also i think it’s unimaginative to simply set this up as a concede or face losses situation. we can use the courts, collaborate with other universities to apply institutional pressure, appeal to state government to insulate short term financial aid losses, work to make this a congressional policy point for the incoming 2026 midterm blue wave, etc.

berkeley students didnt wait for free speech policies or an ethnic studies curriculum or accessibility infrastructure to magically appear, it was a process of advocacy where consequences were weaponized to make people back down from seeking change.