In the past, there was less of a college-going culture. States like Alabama with a large rural population have been traditionally underrepresented.

In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college...

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory – he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.

Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement. Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the...

The state of Ohio has among the highest tuition rates in the country. The number of college graduates has slowed.

I road their coat tails. When I called a college and wanted an interview, they said, ‘Who are you? Never heard of you.’ When they found that I was on the Sea Pines Golf Academy...

Of Course!: Helping the Oblivious Realize the Obvious.” Nobody showed up to class, probably because the time and location weren’t obvious enough.

Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let’s Make A Deal.

My dad didn’t want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.

The student body, too, felt more diverse. Rob spoke often of “real people” with his friends, by which he meant people who struggled, like they all did. On the Ivy League campus visits, any sense...

The truest and noblest gift for yourself is personal development.

Desire to learn.Desire to read.Desire to think.Desire to write.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

The reasoning behind the bill was to help move students [through college] in a timely manner.

Of course he had a female following. Was there anything college girls found sexier than being told what to think?

I’d had my daughter when I was a teenager – I took my daughter to college with me.

Their scoreboard, if you look up at the one on the side, it’s not your typical college scoreboard; it’s just two numbers. I went to bed (Friday) night, and all I could think of seeing...

Mindy has been an outstanding representative of sportsmanship and the higher value of college athletics.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James,...

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.

shares my commitment to improving every Marylander’s access to a college education.

My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury

Three points, five turnovers, I don’t think you could beat any college football team – I don’t care what level it is – with that kind of performance. It’s uncharacteristic of us, and that’s what...

What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual...

Oh, hell no!” I yell at them. They are not about to negotiate as to whether they get to see my goods. “Denton, I swear to God, if you come over here, I am sending...

I’ve asked around and haven’t found a B.A. yet who doesn’t still have nightmares (and I don’t speak figuratively) about not being able to find the room where the exam is to be given or...

Our college hasn’t taken a stand on this issue. Our purpose is just to help students understand different people and different opinions.

Growing up I was a soccer player. I didn’t even watch college football until my junior year when I started getting mail and then I wanted to know these teams.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher...

The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will simply invert the power structure to suit their needs. They will come out...

I’ll keep you here.’ He taps his temple. ‘Where you can’t get lost.

Behold me – a Sophomore! I came up last Friday, sorry to leave Lock Willow, but glad to see the campus again. It is a pleasant sensation to come back to something familiar. I am...

It was nice to see the setting of college before I actually entered. You learn to live on your own, study on your own, and manage your social and college life.

In the ’50s and ’60s, journalism wasn’t a profession. It wasn’t something you went to college for – it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working...

It was about how men walk into a forest afraid because they know all the things that can happen. They might wake the noisy birds and cause chaos. But kids come into the trees and...

People think I’m selling feminism in my books, but what I’m really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can’t afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with...

It’s always hard – if you’re not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that’s...

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

What a fucking charade.Happy. That shit isn’t in our cards. — Duke

Jaxon snorted in disbelief. He cupped his sac just to make sure his balls and dick were still there. If he hadn’t been so content in his life he would’ve thought he was growing a...

I’d been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

Campuses are bubbles, artificial environments that insulate students from the life of the competitive marketplace. The more exact truth is that our campuses offer students the privileges of liberty without the corresponding responsibilities.

That’s like a college team, with 6-7 and (6-8) players across the board and I’m playing a freshman (Jacob Pierce) and a sophomore at the post.

When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a “make sure I have everything” glance. It was...

I used to be a longshoreman. I didn’t go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.