He spent a single semester at college, and says that he would have left sooner had it not been for obligations to the music school.

NEWYORKER: Man Behind the Curtain

Successful entrepreneurship rarely happens within the confines of a year, let alone a single semester, and our half-hearted attempts at starting businesses every semester (only to let them die at winter and summer breaks) reinforced a misleading expectation: that success can be validated quickly.

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Half the students in the study said that they had not taken a single course in the previous semester requiring more than twenty pages of writing.

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