“Rather than spending most of my weeks planning around classes, talks, club meetings, or social gatherings, I explicitly schedule my days around my 19 hours of work every week in order to meet Yale’s SIC.”

“Rather than spending most of my weeks planning around classes, talks, club meetings, or social gatherings, I explicitly schedule my days around my 19 hours of work every week in order to meet Yale’s SIC. It is difficult to justify taking advantage of Yale’s resources when I could instead be working just to afford to attend the university. Therefore, the SIC has made my time at Yale a constant calculation of how I could maximize both my performance in classes and the amount of time I could work–both creating burnout and limiting the exploration of clubs and talks that Yale advertises in its brochures.”

Michael Martinez, he/him/his, 2021, GH