Course Selection Quotes

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.

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.

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

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.

Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

When I went to college in 1988, most people were probably trying to figure out how they were going to decorate their rooms, who was going to be on their floor, what classes they were going to take. My big preoccupation at that point was figuring out how I could get my absentee ballot so that I could vote in Ohio for Michael Dukakis at that time.

I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.

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.

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

Very few parents keep up with who the top professors are or whose classes their kids are taking, partially because most undergraduates interact more commonly with graduate students.

Restaurants with small courses that give the customer choices, and that don't obligate them to spend a fortune, are going to do very well.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.

I know every year what my players get and what courses they get them in. I get a report every semester. What course. What grades.

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught.