Academic Difficulty Quotes

I tried to go to college, I barely got out of high school.

For me, school was a nightmare. I struggled.

School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand.

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.

As all C.S. students know, first year is super easy, but second year is when things get harder. At least that's how it was in my experience. And I didn't have to save the planet between classes either. Instead, I went home and studied quietly. I was a party animal.

I was at the foot of my class.

I struggled academically throughout elementary school

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.

So much of school, you have to write, but I just struggled. I couldn't help it.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

I was a terrible English student.

In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.

I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.

I studied physics 12 in summer school after I completed grade 12. Did I enjoy it initially? No, I had found physics difficult since grade 11, and I struggled a lot. Did I learn from it? Yes, and as I improved, I started enjoying it more.

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.

First semester I took classes like econ and that kind of stuff, and I was miserable.