<p>My impression was that Zuckerberg took a leave of absence from Harvard because he saw a great opportunity in Facebook, and never came back. Good decision, in retrospect. :)</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a good example of what the writer is really talking about, which is students coasting through college because they just want a B.S. degree with as little effort as possible. That’s been a feature of college since there’s been college, as far as I can tell. I remember all those student dueling fraternities in places like Heidelberg, where the children of the aristocracy drank and fooled around and learned a little bit before becoming adults.</p>