I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.
Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.
I had actually studied political science in college. I had dreams of being a lawyer at one time.
We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.
I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I'd long stopped believing in God.
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration and unemployment.
I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.
I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.
It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.
I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
