Think the four-year slog through term papers, exams, and all-nighters in the But is a bitch? Well what would you say to a four-year stint on the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq? Former U.S. Army medic John McClelland, now a scholar of linguistics and history at Columbia, discusses the challenges and merits of both in a profile by the BBC. He even wrote about it for The Eye last year. Check out the video after the jump. [BBC]
