CBS News/60 Minutes: Partying and its benefits

May 20, 2012 4:00 PM

Entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa, who teaches at Duke and Stanford, explains how the social skills gained in college actually help Americans get ahead.

  • Tseug

    Enlisting in the US Military will generate a far-greater number of quality hangovers than being a college pledge of the ATO fraternity ever would. You’ll also exit the military with objective quality evidence of a high-stress, project focused, results orientated work history with a yearly eval system that requires a bell-curve (real world ain’t ‘Lake Wobegone’).

    • Tseug

       and why should a student pay or go into debt to get a hangover? better to get paid and be paid while acquiring the hangover. when not buzzing on Aussie beer, in an aussie port, one is actually working on capital equipment that isn’t some kiddie lab experiment graded by an ESL-deficient TA. when the capital equipment doesn’t work properly it is a bad day (death, hurt, mission failure – been there, done that, next). when the kiddie lab experiment goes poorly I just get a B+ (i.e. grade inflation)

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