Let me add some more insight to this:
There are effectively two Vanderbilt Universities, and I don't mean the scholastic and the medical school.
I mean Vanderbilt turns out some of the best and brightest, and also some of the dumbest and most over privileged. So there is a segment of the student population who are there because Mom & Dad are paying for you to go to a good school, and are going to graduate with a bullshit degree that qualifies them to be "Executive's Son" or "Vapid Thot [formerly: Executive's future ex-wife]", and there is (or at least was) a class track that was 'keep them from getting into too much trouble for four years, do whatever you can to keep them from failing'.
So my assumption is that if he left because he was "bored", it means that he was too smart for bullshit rich kid busy work (and while far from poor, probably not rich enough to hang with the actual rich kids) but too lazy to step it up to get an actual Vandy degree.