Pros

• Nice way to boost deflated ego
• Modest resumé builder
• First-hand experience working inside an obsolete governing body
• Pay helps subsidize weed habit
• Keeps parents believing you have productive time at school
• Can be used as an ice breaker at dinner parties
• Sexual tensions involved in communal late night crafting of campus policy might help getting laid

Cons

• Mandatory Sunday meetings turn weekend into hollow shell of a break  
• Exceedingly large amount of monotonous memories
• Not as similar to House of Cards as expected
• Frequent divestment related filibusters
• Limited electoral competition to smear with targeted attack ads
• Incessant begging of Kathleen Murray to give student government actual power
• Moral qualms of embezzling summer internship grant funds