“I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.” MenCollegeSummerGarbageJerseyNew JerseyDumpYaleSwitzerland Author:Tom Perrotta
“I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.” WorldFeelsBookCharacterShowsSchoolGirlCitiesNew YorkCollegeBrownGossipNew York CityReluctantYaleNyuGossip Girl Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.” StoriesRememberChanceSimpleCollegeConsequenceDecidedVersionsCraftsTonightMore TimeYaleSimple Words Author:Phil Vischer
“I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.” PeopleYearsSchoolThreeLiteratureCollegeGrewGrew UpOddThree YearsGraduatesHarvardYaleGraduate SchoolComparative Literature Author:Lev Grossman
“The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.” MenCountryBodyEducationSocietyCollegeAttractiveCleanersYalePrincetonColleges And UniversitiesUndergraduate Book:Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)
“When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.” StudyStudentsCollegeBecomingMathematicsPhysicsPhysicistTheoreticalYaleCollege Students Author:James Rothman
“The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.” WayNeedsYearsPersonsDifferentCareersRolesTalentCollegeDramaMajorsFatsDifferent ThingsOld WomanYale Author:Meryl Streep