**Lives of undergrads**

There's an interesting discussion here which provides some insights into the issues faced by math undergrads:
https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/nnc1v3/changes_forced_by_the_pandemic/

Here are a couple of excerpts which I found interesting:

>For reasons I can't fathom, it was decided that the content should go in pre-recorded lectures the students would have to watch on their own time, but that there would still be the same number of contact hours, which would be given over to either examples, going over the lecture notes that were published and which we were told to read, or just repeating the exact same content as in the videos. This has *killed* me.

And here's another one:

> "The material in the exams will be similar to other years and should only take the participant 3 hours to complete" This is what we were told in our 24 hours exams (last year we had 48 hour exams for exceptionally easy exams). What the board of examiners managed to produce this year is unfathomable. Almost every student in every department ended up taking at a Minimum 18 hours if not more and some even spent the whole 23-24 hours to complete these exams. [...] we had questions never before seen, and extraordinaryily difficult some taking up to 5 pages to write up. Not only did we have to answer these tough questions but we had to make sure it was all neat as well since we had 24 hours so sloppy presentation would not have been acceptable. I was up for hours at end grasping at straws. Out of 500 student who talk a pole 80% spent over 16hours.