I remember being chronically shy. I came out of my shell a bit when I went to university, but I'm still fairly shy in company.
I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn't you be?
...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.
There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.
The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.
My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.
That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.
If you reach the heights then it's great but if you can inspire young people at school, university or as a coach, then it is a fantastic life.
The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.
Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.
As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'
I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets.
I'm retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them.
As a young single mum struggling to get by, I didn't get to go to university, but that level of debt would have been unimaginable.
I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh.
Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.
I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn’t know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn’t want to do any of the courses.
Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.
When students get into a great university, it's a huge aspirational lift for their village. These students become beacons of hope.
I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.
I graduated college valedictorian, got an M.A. from Columbia University in Spanish literature at the age of twenty-two, and still couldn't answer the question 'What do you want to do with your life?'
I have a passion for academic life, a passion for students and for the ability and the narrative of a university to make a difference in the world in which they reside.
You have great athletic directors, you let them run it; you keep yourself informed, but I'm not the athletic director. I'm the president of the university.
My son was born right here in Florida; he went to public schools and went to the University of Florida and surprised me - I'll tell you that - when he went into the service.
I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.
The University of Texas is a place, a special place, that deservedly holds a seat among college football elite.
I graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and founded my investment company in 1997, thus starting my professional investment career.
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
I've got a really tight group of friends from university and school who help me forget what I do and keep me grounded.
I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.
An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.
I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become an actor.
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!
You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on.
The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty.
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.
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.
Forty-five hundred outstanding lawsuits now for Donald Trump, including Trump University in court .
I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.
Howard University - HoChi - they make the best Philly cheesesteak I've ever had - way better than Philly.
When I was in the first years of university, I fell in more with the visual arts crowd because it was more interesting than where music was.
My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.
I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.
I'd like to go to university. I'd like to do a bit of travelling.
Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.
The thing about being a university teacher is that you're fairly tolerant about young people saying things they shouldn't have said.
I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
There’s nothing you can learn in three years studying media at university that you can’t learn in just one month on a local paper.
At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.
I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.
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