Quotes About University

I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.

I was a political science student.

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.

I went to uni and then drama school afterwards and lived in quite a few student houses.

The students' union and the student body work hard to support the university in encouraging applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply to Oxford.

The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.

I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up.

I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.

I studied journalism at university, and I started a little bit of work on a woman's magazine called Minx that was aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds.

I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.

I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.

I studied at university for a term and a day, and then I dropped out.

I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh.

I studied psychology at university.

After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.

I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.

When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.