He starts to go off the rails a bit by the end, by which I mean his initially focused and perceptive insight into the state of elite education and the students who are getting dragged along through it turns into something more of an angry rant against everyone and everything. Still a necessary book, one that a lot of my classmates should read, but I can't shake the feeling that Deresiewicz picked to wide a brush to paint his picture of the current student climate.

Also: the best education can be found at religious colleges and it's a shame that the clergy is disappearing as a vocation, yet religion is something that students ought to distance themselves from, George Eliot-style, if they have any hopes of doing anything great and world-changing? Not enough, Will. Elaborate.