“I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.” IdeasHelpingWantedValuesParentClassFiguresCollegeMonthsSixSavingNo IdeaExpensiveHelp MeWorking ClassSix MonthsSavingsTuitionStanfordGoing To CollegeCollege Tuition Author:Steve Jobs
“It's not my fault Snow didn't have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.” IfsTwoSchoolJobsGamesDecisionCareersFiguresCollegeThousandHigh SchoolScientistFaultsSnowCompareContractsComing OutRoutesRocketsNhlBackupGoing To College Author:Jeremy Roenick
“Even going to college, getting my degree in Radio TV and Film, as I was approaching the time when you have to decide on a major, I kept trying to figure out what would be the best major to enhance what I am doing as a performer.” TryingWould BeFilmFiguresCollegeTvsDegreesMajorsRadioBeing The BestPerformersGoing To College Author:Jeff Dunham
“I worked for dad on the grounds and I was in high school and I said I wanted to go to college, and he said, well, you figure it out. He said I will pay for your college but you're going to go to St. Vincent. St. Vincent College right here. That's about as much as I can afford, you work here, right here at home. I said, what if I can get somewhere else? And he said if I can get there, that's your call.” IfsWellsSaidI CanHomeWantedSchoolPayFiguresCollegeDadHigh SchoolWhat IfSomewhere Else Author:Arnold Palmer
“We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood...who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!” ThinkingKidsHouseLeftParentHappenedCrazyChildhoodFiguresCollegeAdulthoodGreat FamilyGreat Parents Author:Andy Andrews
“I played with a left hamstring injury since playing college football at Washington University. I went to doctors all over the country to find out what was wrong, and none of them could figure out the problem in my hamstring. I went to Drs. Baker and they found a huge knot in my hamstring. They were able to release it and fix my hamstring problem.” CountryProblemAbleFoundLeftFiguresFootballCollegeHugeDoctorsUniversityReleaseInjuryDrsKnotsBakersCollege FootballHamstrings Author:Corey Dillon
“I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.” IfsFirstsKindPhilosophyAgeYoungPrinciplesFiguresCollegeIllusionUnderstoodMathematicsMathPhysicsSillyEnjoyedYoung AgeRetrospect Author:Erez Lieberman Aiden
“What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'” WellsI CanEndsSelfAmericaFiguresTaughtCollegeEducationalMathSelf ConfidenceHey Author:Bill Gates
“I think it go serious in college when I found out I really enjoyed making people laugh. It makes me happy. I said, I wanna be a comedian, I wanna get good.' You're not good in the beginning. You're still trying to figure out what the things are that you are going to talk about, what your angle is going to be and there's a lot of trial and error. I just never gave up and that was the beginning of my career. Just experimenting, trying it out and falling in love with it.” PeopleThinkingTryingSaidStillsFallFoundCareersLaughingFiguresCollegeSeriousErrorsFalling In LoveTrialsEnjoyedComedianAngleGave UpMaking People LaughMake Me HappyTrial And Error Author:Bill Bellamy
“I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.” TryingFiguresCollegeCatholicismEastern Author:Jeff Ament
“I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally I was under the misapprehension that philosophers are trying to figure out what is true, and that contemporary philosophers are mainly trying to figure out what is true about the mind. Of course Hume and Plato were trying to do that, hence my misapprehension.” TryingMindFirstsIdeasPhilosophyCoursesFiguresCollegePhilosopherContemporaryNo IdeaPlatoHume Author:Patricia Churchland