In August, a Dartmouth undergraduate, Andrew Lohse, called the recruitment programs a "tragedy of wasted minds".
And the gloves stay off: It's glaringly obvious that there is an inherent connection between the tragedy of wasted minds at Dartmouth and the proliferation of corporate, consulting and "financial services" recruiting on our campus.
Andrew Lohse, a student at Dartmouth College, raised controversy this week with a polemic op-ed article in Dartmouth's campus newspaper that called for an end to on-campus finance recruiting, which he said resulted in a "tragedy of wasted minds".
Quality was not much of a factor in my afternoon choices, but I had already noticed that although the flicks were clearly wasting my mind, as my father would have put it, they were richly nutritious to some other side of me.
"There is a tendency for students to buy into the line that if you don't get a Ph.D., you're not a serious professional, that you're wasting your mind," she says.
Mr. Perahia has spent (in my mind, wasted) a part of his career proving to the world that he can play the big Lisztian pieces of the repertory.
After a kitchen shift, a pound of water weight having left me in the heat – we were entering high summer – my body was wasted, but my mind felt still.
Insisting he had no regrets about the climb, he said: "It's a heck of a lot better than having them sitting at home wasting their minds on Minecraft or TV or something like that, and if they can learn this lesson of courage while they're young, then I've done an excellent job as father".
In 2000, the country prohibited the sale and distribution of these games-only (but not really, anymore) machines, the thinking being that this was the best way that parents could prevent their kids "wasting their minds" on video games.
