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