Academic Stress Quotes

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'

Jack, my 16 year old, was in knots a couple of months back, studying for Latin. I said, "Mate, you've got no interest in Latin. You don't want to go into it after, so drop it." He said, "No, I can't. I'm going to get bullied at school because all my mates are in there." There's a prime example of why no one cooks at school. You're studying Latin, you've got no interest.

Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.

However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

If you're at uni just because your parents have said so... There's a lot of success stories of people who have dropped out.

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.

Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.

The truth is, for many young people, the changing schools or starting a new academic year is really difficult to deal with.

I've always been an A or B student. When I get a B, I freak out a little bit!

What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

There's so much pressure on kids to perform and to be the best they can be, and particularly with boys: boys who are the gifted ones get loaded with an awful lot of expectation and self-expectation, and that's really hard for an 18 year old.

You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

High school sucks! It's hard.

The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done.