Educational Path Quotes

When I grew up, I was just another kid who wasn't going to college.

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 I decided on science when I was in college.

I would have studied English, but I really don't like to read.

I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me to go to college. My grades weren't exactly spectacular so they figured acting might be a necessary back door into some school.

Me going to college was not an option.

I made the decision to go on to college and major in drama and see where it would take me.

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've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking, 'This is pretty awesome - is this really a job you can have?' This led me toward a career as an academic, although it took me until college to realise that economics was the right field.

I was doing nuclear med I didn't like it. My first semester I switched to film major. YouTube helped make that decision for me.

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

I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf.

I never expected to leave college early-especially after just one year.

If my dad was alive, I wouldn't have gone to boarding school, and I wouldn't have had the success I've had.

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

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

I don't really know why I went to law school.

I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school.

Academically, I think things kicked off pretty late for me. I was kind of one of those kids who was in half honors, half regular. I was like a history/science kid, which was always weird. Around tenth grade or eleventh grade, everything started coming together.

I was home-schooled my whole life, pretty much.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it.

My parents disagreed sharply with me over the decision to leave school.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

I went to high school directly across the street from Carnegie Mellon, actually, and I knew people that were a couple of years older than me that went there. I was able to see shows in the drama department, and hang out there little bit, and it just felt like a natural progression. It was at the top of my list.