“That's kind of a nostalgia thing. Nirvana was my first favorite band, in third or fourth grade. Then I got out of them. But one day in college a few buddies and myself all started listening to them again and it blew me away. They still stand out as my favorite band ever.” FirstsKindStillsCollegeListeningOne DayBandThirdsMy FavoriteNostalgiaGradesFourthStanding OutBuddyFourth GradeFavorite Bands Author:Girl Talk
“A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.” WorldCountryKidsCareersStudentsCollegeReadyCouplePercentThirdsErrors Author:Jeb Bush
“A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.” IfsMeanMovingSportsFireFootballCollegeThirdsBallsLifetimeCoachesContractsQuartersCollege Football Author:Lou Holtz
“I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a Cause and a lot of other new things were popping up. (Again I'm trying to give you a finite version of this career.) And then I came under the sway of Wallace Stevens when I was in college and graduate school, and basically set as a life goal the ambition of writing third-rate Wallace Stevens. I thought I would be completely content if I was recognized at some later point in my life as a third-rate Wallace Stevens.” IfsGivingWritingTryingWould BeSchoolCausesGoalCareersCollegeAmbitionBeatsThirdsRateCommitVersionsRebelGraduatesNew ThingsAdolescenceFiniteLife GoalHowlGraduate SchoolPoppingRebels Without A Cause Author:Billy Collins
“My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.” YearsCoursesLiteratureStudyChangedStudentsCollegeFitMusicianThirdsExtraordinaryChanged My LifeConservatoryStudying Literature Author:Garth Greenwell
“Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which at the time I was finishing high school and starting college, I got involved with. I was not that heavily involved with the school at MSM my first year there. I took a semester off to start my 2nd year. Took classes I felt like taking during my third semester, but by the start of my third year, September of '86, they began the undergraduate jazz program and I joined that program.” YearsFirstsArtSchoolFeltClassCollegeInvolvedBandHigh SchoolProgramThirdsJazzStartingSeptemberFinishingManhattanMcdonaldsJustinUndergraduateSemester Author:Jon Gordon