Philip Emeagwali Quotes

I loved the college experience of studying.

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue.

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.

I never went to university.

I came to Nashville to go to Belmont. I went to school to be a student.

I came from a very small high school in which there was no guidance and not any appreciable amount of physics taught, nor much mathematics. So I didn't know what academia was all about until I got to college.

I went to one year of college. I only went to class twice a quarter to pass the tests. I thought it was a waste of time.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

My four years in college, I cherished very much the opportunity to be able to stay at home.

I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is always right'.

I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't work out.

I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.

Princeton was really hard. I had learned how to write well at boarding school, and I knew if I majored in English and I just did the work, I could get B's.

When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.

I did my HNC and my HND at college in Motherwell, and the plan I had was to do third year at uni and then to try and get into teaching.

I spent my college years studying what I enjoyed semester to semester-a little Spanish literature here, a little psychology there, a little marketing in between.

My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded me that I needed to go to college if I wanted to really make it in life.

I was in school for a little bit at Rutgers for political science, but it was very loose.

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.

Just being a college student in general is something I'll miss.

Me going to college, I think, was a great idea. I went only for two years, but I was able to mature both on and off the court.