Hey you–yeah you with the face–you need to pay attention to this. Slacking off in school is … well, it’s pretty bad, or so says this article from Bloomberg.
American college graduates finished below the average of their peers in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s most recent Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. After four years of college, the authors found, the average student rose just 18 percentile points on the Collegiate Learning Assessment—in other words, he or she knew more than 68 percent of the incoming freshmen did, instead of just half of them.
The first pie chart shows that college students spent almost three-quarters of their time sleeping or socializing.
On the other hand, if you work hard, you’re up against a field of slackers and can leave them gasping in your dust. Glass half empty; glass half full.