“If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.” IfsGivingPiecesAdviceCollegeBeing TrueBe True To YourselfTrue To YourselfOne PieceFreshmanCollege Freshmen Author:Beverley Mitchell
“Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!” KnowsFallSoundRealizingAdviceCollegeFifteenShallowPreyFreshmanPublicists Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.” IfsBelieveDreamI BelieveSecretGreatnessCollegeProjectsResearchPreservesFreshman Author:Edwin Land
“When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.” WayReasonDoneGamesLinesPoorBehindsHalfStepsCollegeCirclesShootingComparisonFooledFreshmanShooterFree Throw Author:Wilt Chamberlain
“As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.” ClassPracticePsychologyFocusMeditationTroubleStudentsCollegeAnxietyIndiaAncientHandleAsiaFellowshipHarvardAdjustingFreshmanMeditation PracticeGrad Author:Daniel Goleman
“If you believe you have a just cause, an important message, or a key contribution to make, you will be just as innovative as a college freshman desperate to see his girlfriend six hundred miles away. You will get there any way you can.” IfsWayBelieveImportantCausesCollegeKeysSixMessagesHundredMilesGirlfriendContributionDesperateInnovativeIf You BelieveMiles AwayFreshmanCollege Freshmen Book:Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership Source: Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership
“I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.” PeopleYearsCollegeVoteFreshman Author:Woody Harrelson
“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.” PeopleIfsShowsSchoolNightHumanityEducationHalfMillionsGenerationsFrontsTaughtCollegeHundredPoliceLawyerSeatsWickedInstructionOppressedWorldlyNeglectedRespectableBourgeoisMy GenerationYoungstersFreshmanBartenderGiddyMidwifeLieutenantsSophomoreWorldly WisdomCollege Freshmen Author:H. L. Mencken
“I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student.” YearsHardKidsWantedChallengesClassStudentsCollegeUniversityBeastRelentlessIndianaFreshmanSophomoreMbaSophomore Year Author:Mark Cuban
“When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.” FirstsSaidSoundEffortMistakeClassTelevisionCollegeAccentsAnchorsInstructorsFreshman Author:Charles M. Blow
“Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.” WellsMadeKidsRoomsClassAirStreetsStyleCollegeCornersBreathePhrasesCompositionLivelyManualsFreshmanDialectSlangStreet CornersCollege Freshmen Author:Donna Tartt
“I was more into music, before I got into college. In high school, I used to play guitar and sing. I did a lot of that. But, when I graduated and went to college, I remember my freshman year and this girl from across the hall, who is one of my good friends to this day, had a brother who was in the school improv team. We went to go watch a show and it blew my face off.” YearsPlayShowsSchoolRememberFacesUsedGirlWatchesTeamCollegeBrotherMusic IsHigh SchoolGuitarHallsThis DayGood FriendThis GirlFreshmanFreshman Year Author:Steven Yeun
“I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.” FirstsSaidTeacherCryCollegeSingingPerformingShockedFreshman Author:Antony Hegarty
“When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose name was Carol Parsinan, a wonderful teacher. And Carol did a really great thing for me. She taught me more than anyone.” HumanityNamesTeacherWonderfulTaughtCollegeGreat ThingsReally GreatIowaFreshmanCarolsWonderful Teacher Author:Edward Hirsch
“I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.” WritingTryingHas BeensCollegeFreshman Author:Edward Hirsch
“Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory - and I'm so sorry to have to admit this - but there was a Domino's Pizza in Emory Village, where I went to college, and I was ordering a pizza.” YearsRememberCollegeSorryVillagePizzaLoatheFreshmanFreshman YearI'm So Sorry Author:Adam Richman
“I was raised in a wonderful family of faith. It was church on Sunday morning and grace before dinner, but my Christian faith became real for me when I made a personal decision for Christ when I was a freshman in college, and I've tried to live that out however imperfectly every day of my life since, and with my wife at my side, we've followed a calling in the public service where we've tried to keep faith with values that we cherish.” MadeRealChristianValuesSidesChristChurchDecisionMorningGraceWifeWonderfulCollegeCallingRaisedDinnerMy WifeSundayCherishPublic ServiceChristian FaithKeep The FaithFreshmanSunday MorningChurch On SundayPersonal DecisionsWonderful Family Author:Mike Pence
“The greatest finish line for me was finishing college - it was a pact I made with my mother, during a time when she fell ill. That happened during my Freshman year, and unfortunately she never saw me compete in the Olympics. But she really wanted me to finish college, because she never finished Junior High.” YearsMadeWantedMotherLinesSawsHappenedCollegeIllFinishedOlympicsJuniorsFinishingFreshmanJunior HighFinish LinePactFreshman Year Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.” PeopleThinkingYearsKindLongI CanDifferentAgeRememberOpinionWifeCollegeJustificationNoticingThink Of MeFreshmanJakeDifferent Ages Author:Anna Kendrick
“I've always felt like the most improvement you can make is from year 1 to year 2, much like a college freshman who the most improvement he can make in an entire one year of college football is going from year 1 freshman year to his sophomore year. Like a pro football player going from his rookie season to his second season. There's a window there that will never come again that you have a chance to making your biggest strides.” YearsFeltChancePlayerFootballCollegeWindowSeasonsImprovementStrideFootball PlayerFreshmanCollege FootballPro FootballSophomoreRookiesFreshman YearSophomore YearCollege Freshmen Author:Jim Harbaugh