A satire on college life based in part on the earlier comedy, I Graduated, But... and delivering the same ironic message: during the Depression, since there are no jobs, the boy who flunks is more secure than the boy who graduates. "A very free and easy film, full of that rah-rah spirit and some wonderfully done gags. Michigan and Ohio State pennants and a poster for the American film Charming Sinners adorn the rooming-house walls. The more carefree students spend more time practicing their special college shuffle-step than they do studying...And after our hero has failed to graduate, he wistfully asks his landlady's bespectacled son a question which reverberates sadly through all of Ozu's films: 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' Says the lad, barely looking up from a book on American baseball, 'I want to go to college and be a great man like you are. I'll flunk just like you did.'" (David Owens)