“I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.” IfsKnowsSaidSchoolGirlCoursesHoursActingTeacherDramaDegreesHigh SchoolUniversityEnjoyedBiologyHonourEleventh Hour Author:Matt Frewer
“Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.” EndsSchoolUsedHoursHigh SchoolFocusedSavedObsessedMicroscopesAlgaeMicroorganismsMicrobiology Author:Randy Schekman
“I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsYearsKindBookSeemsCareKidsSchoolReadingHoursHigh SchoolDon't CareTeenagerI Don't CareInsecurityLunchMisfitsJocksSchool Years Author:Charles de Lint
“In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that took hours to make a move was okay with them.” SchoolMovingGuyParentHoursTeamHigh SchoolOkayChessMy SisterCaptainsMake A Move Author:Brian Kiley
“Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise. I used to be naturally skinny in high school and college. I was in cheerleading, ran track, and did gymnastics, so I had a built-in five-hour workout every day. Lately, I've been doing Pilates on the Megaformer, which is like Pilates on steroids.” DoeSchoolUsedEnergyHoursFiveCollegeExerciseShapesHigh SchoolBuiltTrackUsed To BeRanStayingWorkoutSkinnyGymnasticsPilatesSteroidCheerleading Author:Eva Longoria
“During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.” MenHomeSchoolHoursWonderfulHigh SchoolHearingRetirementWidowsWwiRetirement Homes Author:Charles Todd
“I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.” PlaySchoolUsedHoursSpaceRoomsPartyCollegeHigh SchoolEmptyPianoBuddyEmpty Rooms Author:Rachael Yamagata
“Though [John] Hughes did provide for us, if we wanted, to go to a local high school and try to blend in. Michael [Hall] and Molly [Ringwald ] already had school to go to with their tutors. Ally [Sheedy] wanted nothing to do with high school. She said, "I remember it fine. I don't want to go back." Which is great. So Emilio [Estevez] and I went. And Emilio lasted a couple hours because people recognized him from The Outsiders that had already been out, so his cover was blown.” PeopleIfsWantTryingSaidWantedSchoolRememberHoursFineCoupleHigh SchoolLocalsHallsAlliesOutsidersTutor Author:Judd Nelson
“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
“Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place.” LittlesSchoolMovingHoursCrazyHigh SchoolMilesTeenagerUpsetLittle ThingsAtomsExplosionsReacting Author:Anton Yelchin
“You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.” IfsKnowsWould BeSchoolHoursDangerousCrimeFiguresSeriousAuthorityHigh SchoolLaborFellowsStoresDestroyedEmployeeStatisticsFrightenedGraduatesKnow MeShelvesSymmetryJuvenileUndoingMayhemDelinquentsGraduating High SchoolVandalismUnderpaidAuthority Figures Author:Katherine Applegate
“In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.” WorldWayYearsRealWholeHappensSchoolEarthNextStarsWaitingHoursHappenedMinutesWalkingHigh SchoolBlueLeavingWinterReal LifeWhole WorldSeniorPizzaBoltsSeventeenThe Next OneOne MinuteMilky WayAdriftDarkest HourSicilianStarlingsSeventeen Years OldHigh School Senior Book:Local Girls Source: Local Girls
“In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.” IfsShouldYearsChildrenSchoolMotherReadingHoursSunGrowingMagicSkyHigherBedMountainSummerHigh SchoolShould HaveSkinsLaysRoseCopiesNow And ThenSeniorSheetsSectionsJuniorsSuggestingEleanorChild RearingSenior Year Book:Home Safe: A Novel Source: Home Safe: A Novel