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I quite enjoyed the following explanation as I was walking behind two students today during lunch while I was working on getting my 10,000 steps for the day. (The following is mostly paraphrased; my memory is not great.)

Hey, I have not skipped a single class this semester, so don't even start. This is the first class I've missed. There are more important things than class, you know. And shopping is one of them.

There's a famous quote, I think by Tom Petty, who is very smart by the way: "You won't remember a day you spent in class. But you will remember a day you spent with friends."

Networking is very important. Which do you think is more important? Networking or classes? It's not what you know; it's who you know.


She is more right than I ever would have guessed when I was in college.

Her friend's response? "I want you for my lawyer."

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