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NYU prof to tardy student: "get your s*** together"
NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway gave some valuable life advice to a student via email that's now gone viral.
When the student arrived an hour late to the professor's brand management class, Galloway told him to leave. Later the student emailed Galloway, explaining that he was shopping around for classes, which is why he was late: "It was more probable that my tardiness was due to my desire to sample different classes rather than sheer complacency."
Galloway eviscerated the student in his reply, which he forwarded to his TA to share with the rest of the class (keeping the student anonymous). Deadspin originally published the full email exchange in 2010; we've reached out to Galloway, who gave us permission to run his response and shared that currently "I'm getting an email about every 3 minutes from people (all over the world) voicing support/anger (about an 8:1 ratio)":
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/nyu-professor-scott-galloways-email-2013-4#ixzz2QBMSDmxd
The email is three years old, but the story was just published today.
