Nikki Glaser Quotes

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

My dad said, 'Go to college and take whatever you want.' So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, 'There's no way I'm taking math and history.' And right next to it was the line for the drama department.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.

I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington in Seattle and become an engineer. But by the time I was seventeen, I was ready to leave home, a decision my parents agreed to support if I could obtain a scholarship. MIT did not grant me one, but the University of Chicago did.

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

Going to college was something that I didn't want to do.

I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929.

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

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

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

All the youth ..., who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it be set to learn ... until they are able to read English writing well.

When they [students] select a college which has published its requirements, they elect to do what it prescribes for the attainment of a degree – and, perchance, an education.

I took about four or five years of French in high school, but I definitely don't speak French as well as I thought I did then.