put themselves in position to succeed after graduation?
if students are lucky enough to know what they want, they can work hard the first few years and it will pay off. there’s no doubt about that. i had a phenomenal senior year partly because i already had a job lined up from busting my tail for the first three years.
but it’s not all about work. the social aspect of duke’s campus is just as important, in my opinion. you can be as social or as studious as you want and switch gears from one day to the next. as a 34-year-old on wall street, i still find a lot of people 