Quotes About College

Under the pretense of wanting to record the history of my brother's year at college, I'd asked to take a picture of Sam with his roommate. Unfortunately, the zoom on my digital camera had somehow been pressed—by a renegade finger, I assumed—and I'd only been able to get a really good close-up shot of Brad. No evidence of Sam in sight. Gosh, darn. What a shame! The photo was now the background wallpaper on my computer desktop.

The issue was: I wanted a boyfriend this summer, and to have a boyfriend, I needed to meet boys, and the Lonestar League was guys, guys, guys. Honesty time. I released a big sigh. "All right, so maybe I'd like to have a brother for the summer." Okay, not so honest. "A boyfriend is more like it," Tiffany said. I glared at her. "Any chance you could move off to college next week? Don't they have summer classes or something?

UC Santa Cruz, home of the Fightin' Banana Slugs, was my alma mater. Sure, we had athletics and cheerleaders, but we were also Division 183 or something. So sports: yay?

The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.

I love performing, and I love the idea of people buying records. I don't particularly like the idea of people knowing me or thinking they do, but that's a part of what I choose. I choose not to go to college; I choose to be a singer.

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.

By the time I went to college, I had totally embraced my Indianness, but I still didn't tell anyone I could sing.

I didn't even have cable back in my college house.

I went to college for about a year in California.

The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.

Uh, I think so many things have happened in the mainstream that definitely brought awareness and attention to a cappella. The 'Pitch Perfect' movies, 'The Sing-Off' - I mean, the college a cappella scene definitely has become really hot, which is definitely wonderful.

My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.

Gift cards are kind of like for college kids and sometimes kids because I think kids love the idea of going to buy their own stuff.

I'd never carried on a conversation with a black until college.

My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.

College allows you to make better decisions, better friends, and a better future. There's only one catch: when the opportunity comes, you actually have to take it.

I really didn't have a favorite Major League catcher in college, but I would watch a lot of games. If one was on, I'd try to pick up little things from whomever was catching at that time.

I went to college to study the piano and cello.

I was so sheltered as a kid that when I went to college, it was like taking the chains off. That's where the trouble came from. It was the first time for me being by myself, and I got into everything you could think of.

I want to win a championship and you can't win it by yourself in college.

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

In college, this cheerleader put me on to this artist called Kimbra, and that was huge to me because that's the first time I saw somebody looping. She sampled her voice and made a song with that, and that just blew my mind.