Transition to College Quotes

I know that college is a big step from high school. So I wanted to make sure I was ready for it.

Don't let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured. College is fun.

The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.

It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.

I hope I can help guys coming out of high school, if they need advice. I know the ins and outs of everything.

It was actually pretty cool to be in Pittsburgh for those four years. I moved into the dorms and had a pretty normal college experience, even though it was in my hometown. I really thrived there. I feel like it really suited me and served me well in terms of how I grew up there.

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.

I was really good in high school, so in college I was going to be really bad.

Senior year is supposed to be a blast-easy and fun. So far it's been anything but.

Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.