P. J. Soles Quotes

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

I attended Florida State University on an academic and leadership scholarship, changed my major from biology to broadcasting, and transferred to the University of South Carolina for my last two years.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

I never did figure on being a college man.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I was interested in, and they couldn't accommodate all of us. I wasn't allowed to take voice or dance, only theater and acting. So I saved my money and, at 19, moved to New York.

After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

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

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

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.