Duncan Jones Quotes

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

I had a tough career in college.

I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old.

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.

You know, in college, your second year they expect you to have a sophomore slump.

The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.

I always say getting my bachelor's was the single hardest thing I've done in my life. Once I got to university, I was working harder than I ever had before and, for the first time in my life, I was getting bad grades. It was demoralising.

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

If a student believes that taking too many exams is hard or skipping advanced courses for a lighter load is a better deal, just wait until he or she goes to college and needs to prepare for finals or has to figure out complex work problems in a stressful environment.

I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.

I think people who don't go away to university are missing out on one of the great life experiences. You meet people from so many different places and it's the shared life experience that helps you grow.

I didn't enjoy my college life in Noida much because I was quite disoriented there, since I was staying away from my family.

During college, I found academics repulsive and forced myself to study subjects I didn't want to pursue.

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

I was telling some of my friends that I really wish college did pay because then you have an opportunity to have fun in college and enjoy college life and have a comfortable living.

I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.

Obviously, college was an unbelievable experience.

Up until I was a junior at Georgia, I felt that when all was said and done, I'd at least have a college degree to fall back on when tennis was finished.

I grew up a lot by going to college. I was still really immature.

I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'

We used to rehearse in unused lecture halls at Imperial and recorded our first album, 'Queen,' in 1971 while I was studying for my biology finals - it is amazing I passed.

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.

I got into Cambridge and it all went downhill.

As a kid, I was overly studious, overly serious, very academically driven. It was important to me on a cellular level to do well. And then I went to college at Harvard, and I relaxed a little bit.

I have a daughter in college myself. It's an expensive thing.