An instance of dehumanization and bureaucratization in UBC

This is definitely a circumstance which does make students feel dehumanized, especially when they have legitimate reasons for dropping a particular class but, past a certain deadline, that reason suddenly loses its validity.

This also makes me think of the over-rationalization in the process of taking time away from school when one is seriously sick, injured, or experienced the death of someone in their family. Someone might have to miss an exam or drop a class because their mother died, and yet advisors ask for proof of the death, despite how much it adds insult to injury. I think even people working in the UBC bureaucracy feel sympathetic, and yet, they must obey the established rules and principles that the bureaucratic structure demands.

Most people are understanding of personal tragedy, and they even empathize, but they are restricted from doing so and have to treat students in a very dehumanizing manner because they are a cog in this "bureaucratic machine," much like Marx's alienation of labour.