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“In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato to Nietzsche, Homer to Shakespeare - you name it, I read it. At times it drove me crazy - picture reading hundreds of pages that sound like this every week: "All rational knowledge is either material and concerned with some object, or formal and concerned only with the form of understanding and of reason themselves and with the universal rules of thought in general without regard to differences of its objects." Come again, Kant?”

College Literary Criticism Freshman Sophomore

Book:The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College

Source: The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College

“I first heard of Parmenides' best-known assertion, "Whatever is, is." I laughed and blurted out, "And he's famous?" With this verbal ejaculation I revealed myself as the quintessential sophomore.”

Philosophy Humour Sophomore

Author:R. C. Sproul

“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.”

“Sophomore records are historically really difficult.”

Difficult Records Sophomore

Author:Karen O

“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.”

Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

“It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do.”

Ifs Two Hard School Three Games High School Senior Playoffs Freshman Sophomore Playoff Games

Author:Tony Romo

“I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.”

School Mother College Daughter High School Grades Sophomore

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Man is an eternal sophomore.”

Men Eternal Sophomore

Book:Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

“Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of Whitmanitis. But he did me a lot of good, and I think the influence is discoverable.”

Thinking Years Influence Profound Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Conrad Aiken

“As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.”

Believe Has Beens Rats Laboratory Psychologist Sophomore

Book:Words and Rules: The Ingredients Of Language

Source: Words and Rules: The Ingredients Of Language

“I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977, my advisor told me I really had to declare a major when I came back, because I'd used all my electives in my first two years. I went back to New York and I couldn't find a job. There were none to be had. And that previous Christmas someone gave me a Super-8 camera, so I just started to shoot stuff.”

Years Firsts Two Jobs Used Left Stuff New York Summer Majors Decided Cameras Filmmaker Two Years Juniors Advisors Sophomore Junior Year

Author:Spike Lee

“I've seen him be successful throwing the football his sophomore year, I've seen that. I've seen him react through adversity, I have seen that. I'd never seen him react to a new system because we didn't have one. I'd say that'd be the most impressive thing.”

Years Successful Football Adversity Being Successful Throwing Impressive Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Tommy Bowden

“The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta. In other words, Gadhafi spent his last days as a sophomore in college. That's what I did.”

Lasts New York College Reports Delusion Surviving Rice Defiance New York Times Last Day Pasta Hovering Sophomore

Author:Conan O'Brien

“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.'”

Years Firsts Two Shows Jobs Acting Week College First Time Paid Actresses Festivals Juniors Two Weeks Julius Utah Sophomore Junior Year Sophomore Year Calpurnia

Author:Katy Mixon

“I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.”

Years Shows Wanted Moving Acting Careers College Projects Encouragement Finals University Profession Pursuit Pursue Professors One Woman Sophomore Sophomore Year Deacons

Author:April Parker Jones

“My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.”

Years Team Football One Day Football Team Sophomore Sophomore Year Tryouts

Author:Mo Rocca

“My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.”

Firsts Doe Real Running Behinds Class Plans Football One Day Decided Rounds Very Good Scared Principal Playing Football Sophomore

Author:Jerry Rice

“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.”

“I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student.”

Years Hard Kids Wanted Challenges Class Students College University Beast Relentless Indiana Freshman Sophomore Mba Sophomore Year

Author:Mark Cuban

“I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.”

Thinking Writing Children Book Gone College Juniors Sophomore

Author:Alice Walker

“The awesome thing about lettering - which is different from many forms of art - is that you can actually see your mistakes. There are sophomore mistakes that people do at the beginning that you spot everywhere. For example, a lot of people make 'W's by turning 'M's upside down.”

People Art Different Form Mistake Example Art Is Spots Upside Down Sophomore Awesome Things

Author:Jessica Hische

“I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do”

Wanted School High School Performances Crucible Sophomore

Author:John Hawkes

“To be totally candid, it was really born out of a panic attack the summer between my sophomore and junior years, when I realized I wasn't going to graduate in four years unless I somehow managed to glue together all the courses I'd taken. That said, I'm really glad I did it, 'cause it was really fun, and I was able to just take whatever the hell I wanted.”

Years Said Able Wanted Together Courses Fun Causes Born Hell Taken Four Summer I Realized Glad Four Years Graduates Panic Juniors Glue Candid Panic Attacks Sophomore Junior Year

Author:Ed Helms

“My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.”

Want Firsts Has Beens Careers Records Prove Understood Sophomore Proving Yourself

Author:Fiona Apple

“I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.”

Years Ends Play Able Growing Up Growing Fans Juniors Alabama Sophomore Junior Year Sophomore Year

Author:Bo Jackson

“My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year - I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn't have to run the mile.”

Years Enough Running Smart Miles Senior Juniors Second Place Sophomore Senior Year Sophomore Year

Author:Bo Jackson

“My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.”

Facts Able College My Friends Tease Friend Love Sophomore Tease Me

Author:Noah Gray-Cabey

“I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.”

Years Littles Play Wanted School Acting Dad High School Police My Dad Officers Police Officer Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Chad Lindberg

“As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.”

Thinking Want Giving Character Chance College Feminist Defined Sophomore

Author:Caroline Dries

“When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was a sophomore in high school. It was kind of rare to see a successful female rocker get down and dirty with the guys. And Courtney Love did. It was fun to be a fan of something different.”

Kind Different School Guy Fun Stuff Successful Saws Fans High School Female Down And Holes Dirty Concerts Rockers Sophomore Grunge Courtney

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year. That's where I danced after the year they offered me a contract with the company.”

Years School Company College Couple Summer University Journalism Contracts Ballet San Francisco Scholarship Indiana Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Joan Chen

“I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore or junior, really into folk and acoustic music. Larry Gross, who's the host of "Mountain Stage" on public radio, and B.W. Stevenson, also a musician, were there at the same time, too. Michael was a big inspiration -- through him I discovered Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Jimmy Rogers. Then I ran into Jerry Jeff Walker there in Dallas back when he was just a folk singer. Those are my earliest influences.”

“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.”

Years States Three College Normal University Sunday Apartment Buddy Campus Carolina North Carolina Thursday Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Scotty McCreery

“The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in a way that I didn't take anything else seriously. So I guess that was the start of it.”

Way Writing Years Firsts Found Fiction Class First Time Fiction Writing Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:John Brandon

“I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.”

Years Stills Whole Three Class Cutting Week Students Internet Paper Very Good Awful Grades Papers Disillusioned Sophomore Good Students Good Grades Sophomore Year

Author:Zach Condon

“So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.”

Ifs Should Years Class If I Could Senior Anatomy Hacks Sophomore Sophomore Year Senior Class

Author:James Earl Jones

“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.”

Thinking Years Firsts Ends School Culture Felt Chance College I Realized Jam Sophomore Semester Learning More Sophomore Year

Author:Regina King

“In high school, some of the guys were really into music. When I first joined the team as a sophomore, I was blown away when we came out for our first home matchI'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it. The seniors would bring their whole stereo system. We started by yelling and stuff inside this little room just off the gym; then the coaches said, "Ready. Go!" We threw open the door and came running out. Even when I hear the songs now I get all jacked up.”

Thinking Firsts Littles Said Whole Home Running School Guy Song Stuff Rooms Doors Team Ready High School Coaches Gym Senior Bumps Yelling Geese Blown Away Sophomore First Home

Author:Karch Kiraly

“In the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, my grandfather got me a job at a local messenger company working on Wall Street. I was lucky enough to have been in the business during a stock market boom but just before the fax machine appeared on the scene, let alone email and the Internet. As a result, the messenger business was booming.”

“Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going to the University of Michigan in the early '60s was a moment of awakening and to go to a place like Michigan and to see suddenly a world in flames and the injustices all around was quite a wake up call. I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.”

“We were very excited and we brought speakers in then it so happened that there was a marine recruiter in the center of campus and one of our brothers, one SDS person put up a sign with a quote from the Nuremberg trial and an arrow point at the marine recruiter, saying, "This man is a war criminal." My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.”

“Over a year before I started recording Salad Days, so I finally sat down and was like I have to do this. And it did feel like a chore. I was looking at it in a completely wrong way, trying to one up myself. Just the typical sophomore album bullshit. The main thing I got out of it is I eventually gave up on all that stuff. I had to re-learn why I liked making music in the first place, why I liked recording in my room all the time. Because it's fun. It's fun for me.”

Way Feels Trying Years Firsts Fun Stuff Rooms Down And Albums Sat Bullshit Typical Gave Up Salad Wrong Way Chores Sophomore

Author:Mac DeMarco

“Now that I understand how publishing schedules work, I can understand why many authors have the sophomore slump. A year is a long time to wait for a sequel, but it's a short, short time to WRITE a sequel.”

Writing Years Long I Can Waiting Long Time Publishing Schedules Short Time Sequels Sophomore Slumps

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I've always felt like the most improvement you can make is from year 1 to year 2, much like a college freshman who the most improvement he can make in an entire one year of college football is going from year 1 freshman year to his sophomore year. Like a pro football player going from his rookie season to his second season. There's a window there that will never come again that you have a chance to making your biggest strides.”

“I was kind of in an experimental phase with The Disposable Rappers. This is boring to me, because it's true, but when I was a sophomore in high school, I visited my sister in college and saw an improv troupe, and that was a genuine moment for me. It was an actual "Aha!" moment. After I saw that, I said, "I want to do comedy." So The Disposable Rappers started doing improv in addition to rapping, and when I went to college, I very specifically went saying "I want to join a comedy group."”

Kind Moments School Comedy College High School Boring Rap My Sister Rapper Sophomore

Author:Michael Showalter

“My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me that being a writer could be a romantic and adventurous position. Previously, I had thought I would be a tennis pro, giving lessons at a local club. I thought that would be a good life, and it might have been.”

Giving Writing School Teacher Tennis Good Life Adventurous English Teacher Sophomore

Author:Jonathan Ames

“I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.”

Knows Years Dream Wanted Film College Directors Summer Juniors Georgia Atlanta Sophomore Morris Junior Year Atlanta Georgia

Author:Spike Lee

“I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!”

Made Three Fun Comic Fairy Crowns Juniors Freshman Sophomore

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“How old are you? Twelve?" "Fourteen & three quarters." His eyes sparkled. "You're kind of little for fourteen and three quarters." "Am not," I replied indignantly. "I'm a sophomore this year. How old are you?" "Seventeen and two fifths." Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones.”

Years Kind Littles Two Eye Three Liberty His Eyes Quarters Twelve Fourteen Seventeen Hardy Sophomore

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.”

Long Ideas Dream Wanted Found Enjoy Spring Tunes Afternoon Dozen April Sophomore

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works