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50 Quotes About The Blessings And Bullshit Of Being A College Student

Stop stressing. You're still young. 
Holly Riordan
June 8, 2016
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
Tagged: School, Learning, Love, Fame, rich, poor
“You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.”
— Tom Petty, Conversations With Tom Petty
Tagged: College, Work, Friends, Fun
“Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.”
— John Green, Who's The Slow Learner?: Adventures In Independence
Tagged: College, Graduation
“But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Tagged: College, student
“Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”
— Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book
Tagged: College, Education, degree
“But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.”
— Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Tagged: College, Alcohol
“I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.”
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
Tagged: College, Distractions
“High school parties exhausted me because I always felt like I was the only thinking person in a room mostly full of morons obliterating precious IQ points with every gulp of whatever booze they managed to steal out of their parents' liquor cabinets. College parties are exhausting in a diametrically opposite way. They are full of smart, funny people who are all used to being the smartest, funniest person in the room, so they spend the whole party talking over one another, overlapping and overtaking the conversation to prove that they are the smartest, funniest person in the room, if not the entire planet.”
— Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds
Tagged: College, parties, Intelligence, high school
“Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.”
— Mark Twain, Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most Revered Humorist
Tagged: College, Education
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.”
— Ray Bradbury, Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews
Tagged: College, Writers, Writing
“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”
— L. Frank Baum, Oz: The Complete Collection (Illustrated)
Tagged: Work, College
“I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.”
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Tagged: degree, College
“When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see that book of T. S. Eliot poems held by the hand with the long, graceful fingers, and you never stop to think that it shouldn't take half a semester to read one book of poems... that maybe he is not so much reading as getting really high every morning and sleeping it off on the library steps, forcing the people who actually go to class to step or trip over him.”
— Maureen Johnson, The Bane Chronicles
Tagged: College, Reading
“ And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!”
— Spider Robinson, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's Place series Book 1)
Tagged: College, Education
“I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned how to learn.”
— Vincent Price, I like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
Tagged: College, Graduation, Knowledge, Education
“Oh, why does college have to happen to perfectly good people?”
— Rick Riordan, The Trials of Apollo, Book 1: The Hidden Oracle
Tagged: College, Education
“Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?”
— Grace Metalious, The Tight White Collar
Tagged: College, Movies, magazines, college life
“A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.”
— Mary Karr, Now Go Out There: (and Get Curious)
Tagged: university, Education, College
“If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great, Be Great!: (Beautiful Quotes, Volume 1)
Tagged: College, graduate student
“Make sure if you're working hard at something it's in a subject you actually want to remember something about ten years later.”
— Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir
Tagged: Work Hard, College, college major
“If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status”
— Criss Jami, Healology
Tagged: College, Education, Power, status
“University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.”
— Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
Tagged: College, university
“A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.”
— John Henry Newman, The Idea of A University (Notre Dame Series in the Great Books)
Tagged: university, College, Education
“University, he said quietly. It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.”
— Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game) (Volume 1)
Tagged: College, university, Dreams
“I hate that phrase 'the real world.' Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?”
— Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Tagged: College, real world, university
“In my illustrious career as a university student,
I turned in over 100 papers so that one day,
in the end, I got 1 paper in return.”
— J.R. Rim, Write Like No One Is Reading
Tagged: university, College, degree
“I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel universe of academia speaking acadamese instead of English and they don't really know what's happening in the real world.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Tagged: College, graduate school
“Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.”
— Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Tagged: College, risks, Failure
“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”
— Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Tagged: College, Mistakes, Learning
“The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.”
— Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
Tagged: Education, College