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.
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.
The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.
A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.
The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
