Petition to Remove the HRT Exam From CS Students’ Lives

We, the sleep-deprived, caffeine-powered Computer Science students of this university, hereby declare that we should not be expected to study 70 pages of Human Rights Theory — especially when half of us can barely remember the difference between DFS and BFS under pressure.

While we fully support human rights (including the right to NOT memorize 70 pages before finals), we believe that forcing CS students to scroll through endless paragraphs of philosophical essays is cruel, unusual, and definitely not optimized.

Our brains were simply not designed for this task. They were built for:

• Debugging code at 3AM
• Forgetting semicolons
• Writing SQL joins that somehow still don’t work
• Crying over segmentation faults

…but NOT for memorizing a full textbook’s worth of information about rights, laws, and conventions we’ve never heard of until this semester.

This petition demands that the HRT exam be replaced with something more suitable for us, such as:

• A multiple-choice question that simply asks: “Do you support human rights? (A) No(B) Also No”
• A bonus question: “Explain why forcing CS students to study 70 pages is a violation of human rights.”

Sign this petition to protect the mental health, dignity, and RAM usage of every future CS student.