“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
“There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.” StillsTwoStoriesJobsEasyBlackPresidentEducationHellWeekFieldsCollegeDiedAfrican AmericanBlack WomenTwo Weeks Author:Johnnetta B. Cole
“I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.” MindTwoSelfSometimesBodyCareThreePracticeWeekStyleCollegeYogaRoutineSelf CareThree TimesCraveStaples Author:Taylor Schilling
“I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.” HomeThreeGoneWeekHavensCollegeSixUniversityClubsBagsThree TimesColleges And Universities Author:Richie Havens
“A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list.” YearsFirstsLooksSaidBookRealEndsShowsHomeTurnsLeaderNovelWeekCollegeReadyMetsEssenceListsAgentsBreakfastEditorsProfessorsConferencesBostonHarvardGearsWorkshopsOne On OneQueriesLiterary Agents Author:Brian Hodge
“It never seemed like that much of a mystery why shows I was acted in failed. When you're doing a show called Freaks And Geeks about young people in high school, and it's on Saturday nights at 8 and there's no promotion for it, it's not really hard to guess why no one's watching it. And when you're doing a college goofball comedy that premières three weeks after Sept. 11, it's not that hard to piece together why that's not the most important thing on the radar.” PeopleImportantHardShowsSchoolTogetherYoungNightThreeComedyPiecesMysteryWeekCollegeHigh SchoolImportant ThingsFreakSaturdayGeekPromotionSaturday NightRadarSept 11 Author:Seth Rogen
“After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast as my legs would carry me. At the end of every race there was nothing left. I walked off the track completely spent!” TwoEndsLeftRaceWeekCollegeTrackLegsTwo Weeks Author:Gerry Lindgren
“I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie.” ThinkingFirstsTwoJobsFilmMovingUniverseThreeCoursesFoundChanceCareersWeekNew YorkCollegeOffersSummerDecidedTheatrePlanesBagsLos AngelesTicketsFestivalsPlaces To LiveMassachusetts Author:Chris Pine
“I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little camera, wrote a script and dragged my brother, Tony, out of bed to help me (which he did not like), so that we could shoot a film every day for six weeks. It was made for £65 and it was called Boy On A Bicycle.” LittlesArtMadeHelpingFilmBoysWeekCollegeBrotherBedSixSummerCamerasScriptsMy BrotherHelp MeBicycle Author:Ridley Scott
“I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.” ArtSchoolThreeWeekChangedCollegeFineMajorsTheaterPainterFine Arts Author:Dan Fogelberg
“I love playing three, four times a week. That's what I've always wanted to do. In college we played Friday, Saturday, then had the whole week to think about it.” ThinkingWholeWantedThreeFourWeekCollegeSaturdayFriday Author:Zach Parise
“What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would do my homework and I think I could do a decent job. I don't think a degree in education would make me a better teacher. I sometimes teach in college. I don't teach for long periods of time, but I give workshops and I think I can communicate stuff. So, it's about communicating.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingLongI CanSometimesKidsJobsYoungStuffTeachTeacherWeekCollegePeriodsDegreesMathematicsCommunicateDecentHomeworkWorkshopsLong Periods Of Time Author:Philippe Falardeau
“I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.” YearsTwoFactsSportsWeekCollegeTwo WeeksSports Illustrated Author:Steve Rushin
“I was a tomboy growing up and then fell into the world of theatre and musical theatre. A girlfriend introduced me to yoga in college and I was hooked. I didn't really know anything about it except that it was the highlight of my week. I ended up graduating from the University of Virginia and moving to Los Angeles where I could continue acting and do a yoga teacher training. I went from practicing once or twice a week to several hours everyday. I loved it.” KnowsWorldMovingHoursActingGrowing UpTeacherGrowingWeekCollegeTrainingYogaEverydayMusicalUniversityTheatreGirlfriendLos AngelesGraduatesVirginiaHookedHighlightsYoga TeachersMusical TheatreTeacher Training Author:Kathryn Budig
“The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort. I started reading it in high school, but I wasn't really able to grasp it. Then I read it in college. I once spent six weeks in a graduate seminar reading it. It takes that long. That's the problem. No one reads that way anymore. People may spend a week with a book, but not six.” PeopleWayMayLongBookProblemAbleSchoolReadingEasyEffortWorryWonderfulWeekCollegeSixPagesHigh SchoolGraduatesJoyceUlyssesSeminars Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Because my college was a local college, it had a historic role in educating minorities and the tuition increase was viewed as an obstacle in creating more opportunity for minorities. I threw myself info the protests with all my heart. Ultimately, a group of us barricaded ourselves in the school for about 3 weeks so we brought the running of the campus to a halt.” HeartRunningSchoolOpportunityRolesGroupsWeekCollegeMy HeartCreatingIncreaseObstaclesLocalsMinoritiesProtestHistoricHaltCampusTuition Author:Lewis Schiff
“The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.” PeopleIfsLooksSaidNextWinningPresidentGroupsWeekTeamBuildingCollegeTrumpPercentSittingVoteElectionDisasterBurningBridgesElectoral CollegeBuilding BridgesBurning Bridges Author:Jason Chaffetz
“I think what frustrated me more than anything else in my formative years was that I just had to work. I had to have a job. Like twenty to thirty hours a week, a lot of times in high school and college. And that was hard.” ThinkingYearsHardSchoolJobsHoursWeekCollegeHigh SchoolTwentiesThirtyFrustratedFormative Years Author:Jon Gordon