“My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.” YearsTwoMovingLeftParentFourGrowingCollegeProductsHorrorAreasBoxesFoundersDylanJuniorsNon StopBay AreaJunior Year Author:Aaron Levie
“I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'” IfsMenYearsMeanHas BeensSaidJobsMotherLiteratureGoneCollegeSummerOld ManFlashJuniorsAugustJunior Year Author:Chris Matthews
“My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'” YearsFirstsTwoShowsJobsActingWeekCollegeFirst TimePaidActressesFestivalsJuniorsTwo WeeksJuliusUtahSophomoreJunior YearSophomore YearCalpurnia Author:Katy Mixon
“I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.” SchoolGamesPlayerCollegeSkillsHigh SchoolJuniorsBest PlayersJunior High Author:Larry Bird
“We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.” LittlesHardUsedBoysCollegeFoolOppositesWestCoreUsed To BeLeagueCoastJuniorsIvyWest CoastHard CoreIvy LeagueFerrets Author:Robin Williams
“I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.” ThinkingWritingChildrenBookGoneCollegeJuniorsSophomore Author:Alice Walker
“I didn't go to university. They offered me a job as a junior reporter and I went off to work for the Southern Reporter. They sent me to college to do my NCTJ, which is a professional exam for journalists, and I started work as a print journalist purely because I was just a pest. They couldn't think of anything other than giving me a job to stop me hanging around.” ThinkingGivingJobsCollegeUniversityJournalistPrintSouthernReportersJuniorsExamHanging AroundPests Author:Jill Douglas
“I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where you can sort of pitch to a committee your own course study, and if they approve it, you have essentially just designed your own major. So Oberlin doesn't have a film major; they do have a film minor... And then my spring semester of my junior year, I went off to NYU film school as a visiting student - they have a program for kids from other schools to come in for a semester.” IfsYearsKidsSchoolFilmCoursesIndividualStudyStudentsCollegeMajorsSpringProgramMinorsCommitteesJuniorsVisitingFilm SchoolSemesterNyuJunior Year Author:Ed Helms
“While wrestling in college as a junior it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA. I saw it on TV and I just knew that I wanted to do it.” EnoughWantedFeltSawsMissingCollegeTvsBoxingMmaWrestlingJuniorsMissing SomethingKickboxing Author:Cain Velasquez
“I didn't really - at least intellectually and creatively - have a particularly compelling experience in college. But during my junior year, they made the TED talks public. So I started listening to them. They were producing one per day, and I was listening to one per day, every day, at the gym.” YearsMadeCollegeListeningGymCompellingJuniorsJunior YearTed Talks Author:Maria Popova
“It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.” YearsFirstsStillsBigsSchoolSportsCollegeHigh SchoolLettersThis DayJuniorsIndianaJunior YearJunior Year Of High School Author:Bo Jackson
“I lost my virginity junior year of college, I was 21... I was awkward, and I was raised Jehovah's Witness so I thought sex was bad, I thought I was going to go to hell, and get AIDS immediately.” YearsLostSexHellCollegeRaisedAidsWitnessAwkwardJuniorsVirginityJehovahGo To HellJunior Year Author:Donald Glover
“From elementary school on up through junior high school, I loved to perform. But I put it all away during high school and college. I thought, "That's not actually something you do with your life." But then I was compelled to try it after college. I just got overcome.” TryingSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolOvercomingCompelledJuniorsElementary SchoolJunior HighHigh School Junior Author:Lisa Kudrow
“I came to the realization that I started dating my now-wife junior year of college, before you actually went on a date. You didn't take girls from college out to dinner. I've never been on a date. I've never been on a date where I didn't know the end game. I've never casually dated someone. I've only been out to dinner with the woman who would eventually be my wife.” KnowsYearsEndsGirlGamesWifeCollegeDatingDinnerMy WifeRealizationJuniorsJunior Year Author:Jon Gabrus
“I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.” PlaySchoolCollegeCoupleHigh SchoolJuniorsJunior HighHigh School Junior Author:Jodie Foster
“When I was a junior in college I moved to New York and went to this performance school the Experimental Theatre Wing. We had singing class and again, some of the other students would cry when I was singing, and I really didn't know why. I started to realize that there was something in the tone of my voice that was evocative for them.” KnowsSchoolVoiceRealizingClassCryNew YorkStudentsCollegeSingingPerformancesMovedWingsTheatreToneJuniors Author:Antony Hegarty
“I talked to a junior in college, and she was fed up. She said, "I'm not doing other girls any favours by faking orgasms and not calling out guys when we're having unequal experiences."” SaidGuyGirlCollegeCallingFedsFavourJuniorsFed UpOther Girl Author:Peggy Orenstein
“I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked college. I wasn't aware enough to know that the junior high I was suffering through would be school at its worst.” IfsKnowsLittlesEnoughWould BeSchoolSufferingHateWorstCollegeI HateJuniorsJunior High Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting.” KidsGuyFightingGrowing UpGrowingCollegeHockeyMinorsJuniors Author:Wayne Gretzky
“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 only had one year of eligibility and I wasn't getting many offers from other schools. I jumped on it to make a mark. That was the most wise decision I made coming out of Oklahoma junior college.” YearsMadeSchoolDecisionWiseCollegeOffersMarkComing OutJuniorsOklahomaWise DecisionEligibilityMost Wise Author:John Starks
“Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to have a safe, sane space with food and things like that. That's what I needed. And people were really kind and really generous. So I think the world kind of opened up my first years of performing arts, studying classical saxophone with Caesar DiMauro.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKindLittlesArtSchoolBitsSpaceStudyCollegeNeededSafeLittle BitHigh SchoolPerformingGenerousSaneJuniorsSaxophoneJunior HighPerforming Arts Author:Jon Gordon