NUdroppedclasses Tumblr Causes Mass Drops, Addiction

By Nathaniel Speiser

EVANSTON ā€“ A recent movement to remove the stigma from dropping classes, spearheaded by ASG, appears to have backfired. What started as a tumblr for students to share their stories about the positive effects of dropping classes quickly morphed into a race to drop as many classes as possible.

A viral trend mirroring the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, called the NU Class Drop Challenge, emerged quickly after the tumblr blog went up. In the videos, students show themselves logging onto CAESAR and dropping one or more classes. They then challenge 3 of their friends, who have 24 hours to do the same or be ridiculed as ā€œthat asshole that didnā€™t do the challengeā€. Approximately 2000 students have participated in the challenge as of press time.

Soon after the challenge became popular, students started reporting psychological addiction to dropping classes, labeled ā€œdropping.” Marcus Zhao, MSJ ā€™17, said in an interview, ā€œIt was such a rush ā€˜droppingā€™ my one really hard classes that I decided to drop my other classes to try to get that same high, but it just wasn’t the same. I knew I needed more.ā€ After some students ran out of classes to drop, they resorted to stealing friendsā€™ CAESAR passwords in order to keep ā€œdropping.”

Luckily, in response to all the ā€œdroppingā€ related woes, the ASG has created a support group, Droppers Anonymous, to help students recover from their addiction. Many students, such as recovering ā€œdropperā€ Katherine Morgan, WCAS ā€™16, have found it extremely helpful. ā€œThis last week was extremely dark for me. I just dropped class after class. Before I knew it, I had dropped all my classes and I was in SESP! But Iā€™m getting better now thanks to DA.ā€

Unfotunately, many classes have been cancelled due to low enrollment. In other news, professors everywhere are very happy nowĀ that they no longer have to teach classes and can finally get back to their research.

 

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