Academic Decision Quotes

If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.

So I decided on science when I was in college.

I ended up majoring in English, which I'm not particularly fluent in.

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

I debated between law school and divinity.

Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

I was accepted to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, which is a terrific Aggie school, and they had a great forestry program. But when I saw the syllabus and realized what I was going to actually have to be studying, there was a lot of science! If you want a degree in forestry, it's basically a science degree. And I just thought, "No, no, no, wait a second. Never mind!"

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 started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

I had the offer of places at Leicester and Loughborough to study financial economics.

I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.

I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math.

I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers, Jack Ratcliffe, who had given an excellent course on electromagnetic theory during my final undergraduate year.

I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.