“I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.” SchoolMotherCollegeDaughterHigh SchoolGradesSophomore Author:Thomas Friedman
“The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta. In other words, Gadhafi spent his last days as a sophomore in college. That's what I did.” LastsNew YorkCollegeReportsDelusionSurvivingRiceDefianceNew York TimesLast DayPastaHoveringSophomore Author:Conan O'Brien
“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 knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.” YearsShowsWantedMovingActingCareersCollegeProjectsEncouragementFinalsUniversityProfessionPursuitPursueProfessorsOne WomanSophomoreSophomore YearDeacons Author:April Parker Jones
“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
“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
“My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.” FactsAbleCollegeMy FriendsTeaseFriend LoveSophomoreTease Me Author:Noah Gray-Cabey
“As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.” ThinkingWantGivingCharacterChanceCollegeFeministDefinedSophomore Author:Caroline Dries
“I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year. That's where I danced after the year they offered me a contract with the company.” YearsSchoolCompanyCollegeCoupleSummerUniversityJournalismContractsBalletSan FranciscoScholarshipIndianaSophomoreSophomore Year Author:Joan Chen
“I'm in college at North Carolina State University. I'm about to start my sophomore year and have an apartment on campus with three buddies I've grown up with. I get to be normal when I'm there, and then I tour Thursday through Sunday.” YearsStatesThreeCollegeNormalUniversitySundayApartmentBuddyCampusCarolinaNorth CarolinaThursdaySophomoreSophomore Year Author:Scotty McCreery
“And once I was in college, about - maybe the end of my first semester of my sophomore year, I realized that college just was not my jam and that I felt like I was learning more when is actually on set. And I think a lot of that had to do with - I was working while I was in college. I was on "227," so I didn't get a chance to really be immersed in the culture of my school.” ThinkingYearsFirstsEndsSchoolCultureFeltChanceCollegeI RealizedJamSophomoreSemesterLearning MoreSophomore Year Author:Regina King
“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