“I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.” PeopleWantYearsWholeWantedFeltChanceFourMissingCollegeNeededBalanceInvolvedScaredWhole LifePushingFour YearsHoping For The BestTime Passes Author:Guy Oseary
“This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.” YearsPlayWholeKidsActorsSoundMissingCollegeSeasonsTheaterFestivalsOregonLive Theater Author:Donal Logue
“I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.” YearsStillsFeltCareersFourRocksMissingCollegeBandEuropeMovedShipsFour YearsIrelandRock BandsIndie Rock Author:Bill Watterson
“I don't do sketch anymore and sometimes I miss it. But I think what I really miss is that time in my life, it was kind of like college. No kids, no real responsibilities, just comedy, food and late nights.” ThinkingKindRealSometimesKidsNightResponsibilityComedyMissingCollegeLateLate Night Author:Alex Borstein
“While wrestling in college as a junior it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA. I saw it on TV and I just knew that I wanted to do it.” EnoughWantedFeltSawsMissingCollegeTvsBoxingMmaWrestlingJuniorsMissing SomethingKickboxing Author:Cain Velasquez
“I'm not that big of a partier. I wasn't concerned about missing out on things in college.” BigsMissingCollegeConcernedMissing Out Author:Matt Holliday
“It's mind control, see. You have to go to school, get those exams, get to university or college, get a job, get married, don't miss the boat, do it now or you'll shoot your life down the drain. Yeah. They got you as soon as you were born. They never risked a second of your life. When you have kids they'll be telling them they have to wear a plastic mask and put a penny in the slot about their nose before they can breathe in.” MindKidsSchoolJobsBornMissingCollegeMarriedYeahUniversityBreatheBoatNosesMaskPlasticPenniesDrainsMind ControlExam Author:Melvin Burgess
“For a lot of women who don't go to college, or for a lot of women who aren't in New York or D.C. or someplace where there's like a large feminist organization they can get involved in, they may be doing feminist work, right, like locally or with a grassroots organization or in their own lives, but if they don't have that support system and if they don't have that availability to feminist language, I think we're missing out on something.” IfsThinkingMayLanguageSupportMissingNew YorkCollegeInvolvedOrganizationFeministGet InvolvedAvailabilityGrassrootsMissing OutSupport Systems Author:Jessica Valenti
“I don't think anything can substitute long talks, and long talks are somehow never as easy to schedule again as they were in school, when most people - at least in my little socioeconomic corner of the world - live not with their families or sexual partners, but with same-sex friends. I really miss that from college. I never really thought at the time about how things would never be that way again.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayLittlesLongSchoolSexEasyMissingCollegeCornersPartnersSubstitutesSchedulesCorners Of The World Author:Elif Batuman
“Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of photography at the Sunday Times Magazine - that's where everyone went with their photo essays in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. It was the place to get published. It is an issue. And I feel it. There's no budget. The budget-holders are very often people who've been to the professional colleges where art is not taught. So art as a part of education is something that's missing - since Thatcher's day, anyway.” PeopleWorldArtMissingCollegePhotographyArt IsSundayEssaysTime Magazine Author:Stuart Franklin
“When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.” SchoolMotherMissingCollegeMastersUniversityGladStressedYaleYale University Author:Angela Bassett
“I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.” ThinkingWantYearsFourMissingCollegeFour Years Author:Kristen Stewart
“I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.” KindTwoHomeWhiteMissingCollegeMajorsTrainRatsLabsPsych Author:Steven Yeun