I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'
My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.'
I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.
Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.
In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.
People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.
When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.
Look at yourself on the day that you graduated from college, then look at yourself today. I did that recently and it was like, 'Yikes! What the hell happened?
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.
The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A bit of that combo shows up in 'Up.'
While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught.
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.
