“I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.” YearsTwoSchoolThreeStuffCollegeHigh SchoolIndependentTwo YearsThree Years Author:Jeremy Camp
“I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.” YearsLawCollegePretendingIn-lawsMarxistCommunesCollege Years Author:Jane Smiley
“I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.” YearsBookNew YorkCollegeDegreesBasesUniversityHuntersAnother YearPlaces I've Been Author:Grace Paley
“And it was important to my parents that I get my degree in 4 years, because "Money doesn't grow on trees." [LOL] I will support my son in whatever he wants to do professionally, but he will go to college, too. My husband and I are in concert on that.” WantYearsImportantGrowsParentSupportTreeCollegeSonHusbandDegreesMy HusbandMy SonConcerts Author:Wendy Williams
“My dad died in May of '97. The effects of his death immediately were not all that hard, but a year or two later it hit, when my job as Dad was sort of done and I was sending my kids to college. And somehow, the emotional intensity of that event mixed with the loss of my own dad, was kind of upsetting.” YearsKindMayTwoHardDoneKidsJobsMy OwnLossEffectsEventsEmotionalCollegeDadDiedMy DadUpsetIntensityDad DiedMy Dad Died Author:Wayne Watson
“I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It's about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.” NeedsYearsLooksChildrenEnoughKidsAbleWorryCollegeOur ChildrenTablesYour ChildrenEarningFees Author:Shane Filan
“Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges - were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.” YearsWellsStatesTodaySchoolCitiesClassMillionsEconomyNew YorkCollegeHigherYears AgoUniversitySakeCaliforniaFiftyWorking ClassAffordableHigher EducationTuitionGreat Schools Author:Bernie Sanders
“We are moving in exactly the wrong direction in higher education. Forty years ago, tuition in some of the great American public universities and colleges was virtually free. Today, the cost is unaffordable for many working class families. Higher education must be a right for all - not just wealthy families.” YearsTodayMovingClassCollegeHigherCostYears AgoUniversityFortyWealthyWorking ClassHigher EducationGreat AmericanMoving InTuitionWrong Direction Author:Bernie Sanders
“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.” IfsYearsMightCoursesClassClearWonderfulImpossibleCollegeComputerWindowMultipleLooking BackLooking ForwardDotsMacsTypographyConnecting The DotsStanford UniversityFontsCalligraphyDropping OutPersonal ComputersTypefaces Author:Steve Jobs
“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
“Don't ever let anyone tell you that history doesn't repeat. For 70 years, liberals have been spinning the yarn that FDR's New Deal, despite all the evidence that it exacerbated and prolonged the Great Depression, quickened our economic recovery. Indeed, I remember scratching my head when one of my college history professors in the 1970s tried to convince us of that theory and its corollary - an even better howler - that FDR was actually a conservative, because if he hadn't implemented his socialist programs, the republic would have died right there.” IfsYearsHas BeensRememberDealsEconomicCollegeTheoryEvidenceProgramDiedConservativeRecoveryDespiteRepeatsConvinceRepublicProfessorsSocialistSpinningGreat DepressionNew DealYarnConvince UsEconomic Recovery Author:David Limbaugh
“Games were moved to New Year's Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year's Eve.” WantYearsGamesPlansFootballCollegeTraditionMovedExecutivesNew YearNew Years EveCollege FootballWatching Football Author:Audie Cornish
“I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.” MenFeelsYearsChildrenDifferentAgeMotherCultureThreeFatherParentFiveFourCollegeMarriedMajorsOur ChildrenSevenFive YearsDivorcedElevenAnthropologyEighteenDifferent Cultures Author:Lily King
“Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.” WritingYearsJobsCommunityTeachingCollegeLaborUniversityVersionsAcademiaMigrantsPart TimeColleges And UniversitiesCommunity CollegeTeaching Writing Author:Debra Dean
“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
“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
“After we finished touring 'Ignore The Ignorant' we had this perfect idea that we were going to take a couple of years off, that was the plan. Because we thought we were definitely going to take time off, I was going to go back to college, that was what I was going to do. Because the whole idea of it was that I have spent ten years in this band and not even realised that that amount of time has passed.” YearsIdeasWholePerfectPlansCollegeAmountCoupleBandTenFinishedIgnorantTake TimeTouringRealisedTime OffBack To College Author:Ryan Jarman
“I didn't get any college credit for playing in Vampire Weekend, you know. So it was definitely an early hurdle to get over with C.T. winning and us losing to C.T.. But I think sorta since then, in the four years since, we've managed to pave everything over.” ThinkingKnowsYearsWinningFourCollegeLosingCreditVampireWeekendFour YearsGet OverHurdle Author:Chris Baio
“The education system is where young skulls full of mush are programmed and propagandized into the system. They are highly valuable. That's why they're subsidized. You know, universities are approaching the same circumstance we have in health care. What it costs is not related at all to market forces. Meaning what it costs is not related to what people can afford. You get right down to it, how many Americans, how many families can afford 20,000, 30,000, $50,000 a year or semester to send their kids off to college? It has to be subsidized.” PeopleKnowsYearsCareKidsYoungForceCollegeCircumstancesCostUniversityValuableHealth CareRelatedSkullsEducation SystemSemesterOff To College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I turned down a contract with a major network in New York my senior year of college in order to move to Los Angeles and pursue my acting career. But so far it's working out.” YearsMovingOrderActingCareersNew YorkCollegeMajorsWork OutPursueLos AngelesContractsSeniorTurned DownSenior Year Author:Justin Hires
“I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.” ThinkingYearsMadeBreakGoneTakenFiveCollegeMemorableBurn OutMemorable Movie Author:Jodie Foster
“I am a man who used to wear the tights. We traveled the country doing two Shakespeare plays for bored college students for about a year. I think I'd probably still be doing it now if I hadn't just randomly decided to go to a sketch group audition. That led to doing improv, which led to the Daily Show. But it was fun while it lasted.” IfsThinkingMenYearsStillsTwoCountryPlayShowsUsedFunGroupsStudentsCollegeDecidedBoredTraveledAuditionsCollege StudentsTightsDaily ShowShakespeare Play Author:Rob Corddry
“As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.” MenWayYearsHas BeensSaidDifferentKidsThreeFatherCollegeHe ManMetsMarriedFabulousCollege Education Author:Anna Quindlen
“After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.” NeedsYearsCollege Author:Tod Machover
“There has to be some more regulation. But our kids have this incredible buffet of they can work in genomics, they can work in pre-omics, or they can work in robotics, or they can work in this, or they can work in that. And within the next five years there will be entirely new industries that come out of nowhere that kids are working in that would have been inconceivable when they started college. Not when we started college.” YearsHas BeensKidsNextFiveCollegeIndustryIncrediblesFive YearsRegulationRoboticsBuffetsGenomics Author:Juan Enriquez
“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
“At that point, I thought probably special effects, something like that, and indeed, the early days when I was working with my dad, after I left school, I only went to less than one year of college, and then I was transferring, and then I delayed my transfer, and I did a movie, and then another movie, and then I never finished college.” YearsSchoolLeftSpecialEffectsCollegeDadMy DadFinishedTransfersDelayedSpecial Effects Author:Brian Henson
“I was starting out in the business, there was only one path to playing professionally - graduate, or go four years. With the creation of the ABA [American Basketball Association] in the early 1970s, the sanctity of having to go to college was broken. The ABA took anyone, starting with Spencer Haywood.” YearsPathFourCreationCollegeBrokenBasketballStartingAssociationFour YearsGraduatesSanctityStarting Out Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war. When you know a kid can't turn pro and is going to go to school for one year and then go pro, that's when you see everyone going to games and courting players.” KnowsYearsWarDoneKidsSchoolTurnsGamesPlayerCollegeBasketballBiddingCollege Basketball Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“There's Brandon Jennings. The NBA told him to go to college for a year, and he said, "Screw that. I'll go to Europe and make a million bucks and then come back." And he's proven to be a pretty damn good player. He's done as much for the game as Michael [Jordan] by forging a different route.” YearsSaidDifferentDoneGamesMillionsPlayerCollegeEuropeDamnNbaProvenRoutesScrewsBucksJordanForgingDamn Good Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“I know in college, a player is playing for something every year so it is constantly competitive while in residency although you're playing with the top players in your age, you don't have many competitions other than the U-17 or U-20 World Cups.” KnowsWorldYearsAgePlayerCollegeCompetitionCupsWorld CupResidency Author:Steve Purdy
“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
“The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.” YearsGuyGenerationsMovementCollegeGrewEqualGrew UpFeministSingersSongwritersSinger SongwritersFeminist MovementStand Up For YourselfCollege Years Author:Bonnie Raitt
“You think you're going to be on TV a year out of college and you're not. Then you tell people and it's embarrassing. And then it's not a big deal at all.” PeopleThinkingYearsBigsDealsCollegeTvsEmbarrassingBig Deal Author:Nick Kroll
“In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.” WritingYearsFirstsSchoolFormFictionWrittenCollegeEngineeringBusiness School Author:Karan Bajaj
“You didn't question - kind of like, you would go to college. You would wear a tie to work. You would, you know, you would work for 40 years. And then you would play golf for three years, and then you would die. That was how I was raised.” KnowsYearsKindPlayDiesThreeCollegeLike YouGolfRaisedTiesThree Years Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I didn't try out for bands when I was younger. I got into guitars intensely a couple of years into playing so much by the time I was graduating high school I was accepted into Berklee College of Music.” TryingYearsSchoolCollegeCoupleBandHigh SchoolGuitarAcceptedGraduatesGraduating High School Author:John Petrucci
“All the kids that I grew up with, in an almost idyllic environment - I've got to tell you, it was so wonderful - they've gone on and they're doctors and Ph.D.'s and everybody has a four-year college degree. None of our parents, I think, had a four-year degree.” ThinkingYearsKidsParentGoneEnvironmentFourWonderfulCollegeGrewDegreesGrew UpDoctorsFour YearsCollege DegreeIdyllic Author:Jeff Sessions
“Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.” YearsFirstsRememberSongLanguageFictionCollegeMovedSurfaceSolomonPower Of Language Author:Barack Obama
“Hillary Clinton and I have worked together on a higher education proposal which will guarantee free tuition in public colleges and universities for every family in this country making $125,000 a year or less. We're going to fight for paid family and medical leave. Those are the issues that the American people want to hear discussed, and I'm going to go around the country discussing them and making sure that Hillary Clinton is elected president.” PeopleWantYearsCountryTogetherFightingPresidentIssuesCollegeHigherPaidClintonUniversityMedicalGuaranteesProposalDiscussingHigher EducationTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think the other thing that's interesting about the women's peloton is that if you ask what their background is most have played college sports, and a lot of times have come off of injury and have gotten on a bike. A lot of us start post college in our mid 20's unlike in Europe where they start 10 years before that.” IfsThinkingYearsAsksSportsInterestingCollegeEuropeBackgroundsPostsInjuryBikeCollege Sports Author:Kristin Armstrong
“I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family shifted back to North Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina; had my schooling through the college level in North Carolina.” YearsFirstsSchoolBornLevelsCollegeGrewGrew UpPublic SchoolVirginiaSchoolingCarolinaNorth CarolinaNorfolk Author:Ella Baker
“To me, when you got a 20-year-old running back or 21-year-old receiver that's just coming out of college and you're out working these guys, age really don't matter. So it's easy for me to see what it is. People say it's all about age, but to me, it's mind over matter.” PeopleYearsMindMatterRunningAgeGuyEasyCollegeComing OutReceiverRunning Back Author:Adrian Peterson
“We essentially spent our college years together [with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg], so those were the kind of lasting friendships and the bond you form during those years, and those friendships last a really long time.” YearsKindLongTogetherLastsFormCollegeLong TimeLastingReally LongLasting FriendshipYears TogetherCollege Years Author:David Krumholtz
“Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory - and I'm so sorry to have to admit this - but there was a Domino's Pizza in Emory Village, where I went to college, and I was ordering a pizza.” YearsRememberCollegeSorryVillagePizzaLoatheFreshmanFreshman YearI'm So Sorry Author:Adam Richman
“I rebelled during my high school years really bad. I started messing around with drugs and having relationships with girls and partying. And I used to tell God, "Hey God, after college I'm going to serve You because I know that's what I want to do with my life. I know that's the best way. I know that's why I was created. But right now I want to sin because I love it. I want to have a lot of fun."” KnowsWayWantYearsSchoolUsedGirlFunSinPartyCollegeRight NowDrugHigh SchoolBest WayHeySchool Years Author:Dominic Balli
“After high school and a year of College I made a half-hearted attempt at professional skiing in Aspen, Colorado and then found myself back in Flint.” YearsMadeSchoolFoundHalfCollegeHigh SchoolHeartedSkiingColoradoHalf HeartedAspensAfter High School Author:Doug Rice
“The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.” ThinkingYearsDoeSelfMomentsRememberLeftHurtAnswersCollegePeriodsHospitalsEpisodesIt HurtsLive In The MomentEvaluation Author:Daniel Kahneman
“Basically, my senior year of high school, I was going to look at prospective colleges and I went to visit Northeastern University because one of my friends was going.” YearsLooksSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolMy FriendsUniversitySeniorSenior Year Author:Jillian Hervey
“I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had Bush elected, 9/11, we were at war, so I was sort of having my political and spiritual awakening at the same time I was becoming an adult, and that's a lot of stuff at once. I became very focused on the state of the world, and I started studying that stuff more, and I just had a real identity crisis. I couldn't even really just study literature.” WorldWritingYearsWarRealStatesSpiritualPoliticalLiteratureStuffStudyIdentityCollegeCoupleBecomingAdultsCrisisFocusedAwakeningSpiritual AwakeningIdentity CrisisBecoming An Adult Author:Gaby Hoffmann