Student Experience Quotes

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to Edinburgh that perhaps it was a mistake to have gone to a college which was bang in the centre of a vast city. It had a bad effect on the social life of the students because a lot of them were commuting from outer London.

I did all right in school, especially in math.

Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.

The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

I entered the University of Natal as a preliminary-year student in 1966 and stayed on to June 1972, when I was expelled from the university. I was then doing third-year medicine.

School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.

What's the first thing I remember about the University of New Brunswick? That's easy. The year before I had gone to Mount St. Vincent in Halifax, which was an all girls' school. That didn't really work out for me. But at UNB, there were six or seven men for every woman, which suited me just fine.

If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.

I was an average student. Not a dunce. Used to play for the school football team.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

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

I think everyone needs to focus on the quality of the undergraduate experience.

Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

School would have been pretty dead really for me without music. I liked IT, and English was all right, but that was it.

I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically came down to a single point, and it was 100% accurate: I seemed to get nothing whatsoever out of all those long hours spent in the classroom.

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

When I was at university in Birmingham, I used to spend half my grant betting on horse racing. Seven terms out of nine, I made a profit.

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

I love school. I was a great student.