Despite all the challenges facing higher education in America, from mounting student debt to grade inflation and erratic standards, our system is rightly the world’s envy, and not just because our most revered universities remain...

I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.

…the most important thing you must remember when dealing with a politically biased professor is to be friendly.

Encouragement is a fire of flame. It refreshes the soul and revives the spirit.

Success comes with failure which leads to doubts but with determination we can still achieve.

I love comedy and did a lot of comedy in college. I was in an improv comedy group with my friends.

College graduation, high school proms, we’re not recommending any be canceled. We just want to ensure that people are aware of the risk.

My advice to writers just starting out? Don’t use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer – one haunted by Catholicism.

…”There’s really no way I can explain it to her without *still* sounding like scum,” I complained to Sinter.”The ‘sympathy shack-up’ doesn’t score many points,” he agreed.*

I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I’m on the road.

Will you be able to touch me again without thinking about Sean? I don’t want you to be disgusted by me.

It’s ike being in college and being undecided about your major. As soon as you choose your major, you focus in on it.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there’s a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll...

We hope it will help college applicants and their parents decide which college is best for them.

A lot of the guys I played against on (the Red), they beat us in college so I really wanted to beat those guys one last time before it was all said and done.

How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?

I think back to what Landon said about heartbreak, that if you don’t love the person, they can’t break your heart. Hardin repeatedly breaks my heart, even when I don’t think there are any more...

It’s tough for freshmen. Fall sports are different than spring sports. They have to adjust to being in college.

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration – which meant I wasn’t going to get a real job – so I started doing a little standup.

In this neighbourhood people don’t venture out after dark. It’s not safe for them. Only the terminally stupid and the criminally motivated come out at this hour.

You don’t do it like in high school or college, where you try to rip on the other team. You try to be professional about it. You might be teammates with him two days from...

I wanted to show them I wasn’t the same 7-foot (junior college) kid that they had tried to recruit. I wanted to show them that I had worked on my game. That’s kind of what...

My grandmother is a huge Hawkeyes fan, so I, by proxy, have to be one. I’m more of a professional sports fan, and I’ve never been a huge college fan, but because of my grandmother,...

He’s a big sucker, and he plays hard. He’s as good as it gets in college football.

College has given me the confidence I need to fail.

For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of like-minded, and savoring teachers who seemed to be ambassadors from other, richer, writer...

As she continues to play and work, she’ll really be one of the elite players going into college. She will only get better as she plays club ball and school ball.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it.

She was as lovely sleeping as she was dripping in sensuality at the fundraiser

The Pell Grant isn’t even keeping up with inflation, let alone college costs.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I’d enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

Though outwardly Kristina maintained that a clean room was a symptom of a diseased mind (for how could she, while studying the world’s greatest thinkers, be bothered with such mundane earthly issues as cleaning?), inwardly...

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out...

Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast.

I think Rick Clausen is absolutely one of the greatest stories in college football last year and he brings leadership, a calm demeanor, an intellect of knowing our offense and using the personnel around him...

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day – a letter from Indiana.

I was in college that first semester, and I was like, ‘Wow, this isn’t who I am. This isn’t what I want to do.’ I was like, ‘Oh God, I’m going to have to go...

To be on a college campus and understand what its like to live in a dorm for a week gives them a preview for college, so when they go its not such a big surprise...

What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker’s cognitive purpose (acquiring information and learning how to think) and (William) Deresiewicz’s moral purpose...

I think school funding and funding for preschool and college are a major economic tool that the state has let the ball drop on by cutting back.

I’m sorry to hear you’re jobless.” I need to network with people who encounter letters on a daily basis in math equations, not romantic poetry.

My ex girlfriend and I, we had chemistry together. And right after that, we had biology.

We think having a community college next to our new high school could be a real asset to our graduates and our current students.

I think everyone would be more worried if we played at 10 a.m.. College guys are a lot more awake at 10 p.m. I think the key is to not make a big deal of...

I’ve been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I’ve been an editor on magazines.

What you learn is your greatest treasure.