Why are do many students seem to have so much free time? I know if I was paying for my kids to go to college I’d be really p!ssed if they had enough free time to lollygag around. I know when I took electronic engineering I didn’t have a spare minute to waste attending stupid protests.
Simple. These old children are in easy majors that do not require a lot of studying in order to maintain a passing GPA. In most "real" majors, unless you are exceptionally gifted, you spend most of your time studying.
Compound this with the fact that many old children borrow all of their living expense money in addition to tuition money. This frees up time that would have been spent working.