Well, my husband drank beer and played video games while doing one of the hardest programs in the Navy and graduated first in his class. His friends hated him for it, since he'd be calling out answers to them as they studied while he just played games the whole time.
He is getting good grades in his upper level college classes, too, now, even with watching the baby and playing the video games.
Different, I know.
Damn near everyone I knew in school in the Navy was spending tons of free time either drinking beer or playing video games. I almost never saw anyone actually studying. The ability differences showed up between the ones barely passing and the ones carrying 90+ averages despite the lack of studying.
My program wasn't nuke, but it was the next hardest. A lot of the guys who failed out of nuke school went there instead... we called them "nuclear waste."
