College Quotes

“I want to close my eyes and feel the memory of the moment only when it’s us became only us, forever.”
― Chloe Liese, Only When It's Us

“October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. The names of the subjects all seem to lay open the way to a new world. Your arms are full of new, clean notebooks, waiting to be filled. You pass the doors of the library, and the smell of thousands of well-kept books makes your head swim with a clean and subtle pleasure.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“Being in college gave me a sense of vocation. It exempted me from an oppressive system of social and personal responsibility- from going through the motions like a cog, from being whipped and beaten by everyone for not having worked hard enough and then having to put on a repentant face afterward.”
― Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

“Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society.”
― Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

“Education is guaranteed to mitigate ignorance, not to eradicate stupidity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you have some kind of skill to survive, if dishonesty disturbs you, if you avoid evil acts, then you had very good teachers.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“My dad managed to convey the importance of working hard in school using a subtle blend of emotional blackmail (I’m paying for the best high school in New York, don’t make me regret it) and fear (if you don’t work hard now you won’t get into a good college and you won’t get a good job and you won’t meet a nice man and you’ll end your life filled with regret and fast food). It was incredibly effective.”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“Everyone tells you middle school is fun, and then you get there and it sucks. Then high school is going to be fun, but you get there and it both sucks and is really hard. Now, apparently, college is going to be fun, but it really seems like one more hurdle standing between me and actual happiness. Whatever that is.”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“Connell initially felt a sense of crushing inferiority to his fellow students, as if her had upgraded himself accidentally to an intellectual level far above his own, where he had to strain to make sense of the most basic premises.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“It is without doubt, nowadays, that many students lack the ability to know or find their true passions in life; after all the criticism they went through. Whether it is at school, college, university or any learning environment.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“Universities are fueled in large measure by what's called overhead of the grant...so if you get a million dollar grant, half or more will go to your university, right? So that's what builds the buildings and fuels the place. So the university has an incentive to get as many people to file grant applications as they can, and they have an incentive to hire people whose grant applications will be large rather than small.

So this, for example, is one of the reasons that science has taken up arms against theory –that is to say, proper scientific theoreticians like me – and it has instead hired people who run big expensive experiments: Because big expensive experiments have big grants, and those big grants bring in money.

But if you were a university and what you wanted was to have people writing big expensive grants who were capable of getting them, then what you would want to do is...you would want to free those people from teaching, and you would want to get people who weren't so expensive to do the work of the university...and the way you do that is: you bring them on as graduate students; and you pay them an appalling wage; you claim that they are not actually workers, that they are students; and they do most of the teaching, and they do a lot of the work of the university, for incredibly low amounts of money; they live under poor conditions; and increasingly they have to come from abroad where they are in some sense getting a deal that still makes sense.

But this means that we overproduce PhDs. We give people degrees instead of money to do the work of the university, in order that people who are capable of getting the grants spend almost full time doing that job. And it's a racket.

The person who knows the most about this is actually Eric, my brother. So...what he unearthed was actually that there was an explicit conspiracy to game the visa system in order to keep this system running...that effectively a fake shortage of science students was created to allow the universities to basically flood the market, to drive the wages down.”
― Bret Weinstein

“Offline classes form the nucleus of the college life. Online classes can only complement offline education, not replace it.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“Her mouth opens in a shocked little “o,” and I know I’ve got her. Now that we’re not teammates, I’m going to make Harley mine.”
― Anita Knight, Love All

“All students may not remember the teachings of their teachers, but they all remember the teachers.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“We would like to see a world in which everyone who can benefit from going to college, and wants to go to college, is able to do so. But we do not accept the basic premise that people are useless to the economy unless they have a bachelor's degree. And we certainly do not think that those who do not get one should be somehow disrespected or treated as second-class citizens.”
― Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

“If there's a violent mob on campus, it isn't Ben Shapiro's fault - he's just someone coming to campus to talk about ideas. Mob violence is the mob's fault”
― Dennis Prager, No Safe Spaces

“Life is hard for a colored boy in the manhood stage to learn from white folks. If F.D. does learn it around white folks, he is going to learn it the hard way. That might make him mad, or else sad. If he gets mad, he is going to be bad. If he's sad, he is going to just give up and not get nowheres. No, I will tell F.D. tonight not to go to no white school and be snubbed when he asks a girl for a dance, and barred out of all the hotels where his football team stays. That would hurt that boy to his heart. Facts is, I cares more about F.D.'s heart, anyhow, than I do his head.”
― Langston Hughes, The Return of Simple

“Doctor, as in “an apple a day”? Or one of those guys who’s got an honorary title for staying in college too long?”
― Jordan Castillo Price, GhosTV

“কেউ অনার্স বা মাস্টার্সে ৩.২৪ পেয়েও বি+ [৩.২৫] পায় না। কেউ ৩ পেলে বি, আর কেউ ৩.২৪ পেলেও বি। তাহলে ৩-এর পর .২৪ এর কি কোনও মূল্য থাকে?”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“In Hon's or Master's, some don't get B+ [3.25] even after obtaining 3.24. If 3 and 3.24 = B, then does .24 have any value after 3?”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“The parents have all been posting up a storm, of course. At one point the previous day we'd all compared embarrassing "Can you believe she's looking at colleges?/tearful emoji" posts, to which all their friends added shocked faces and commented on the passage of time, yawn. Some of them went for the comparison post (Here's a picture of little Wanda in her Dorothy costume at four, here she is at sixteen; Oh my god I feel so old because this rite of passage is about me, not the one actually passaging) ...”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“First day of college and I’m already falling back on clichés. Now I know why people resort to them: it’s safer to talk about nothing than face real questions.”
― Geneva Lee, Blacklist

“A girl in middle school once told me that a penis feels just like a tampon, only bigger. I’m not sure if it’s something her mom told her to shut her up, or if it’s somehow true. But as I’m staring at this man’s beautiful, bare naked form in front of me, I can tell you that I highly doubt it’s going to feel like a tampon when he’s inside me.”
― Anita Knight, Crush Course

“The opposite door to the bathroom swings open, letting cold air into the steamy atmosphere, and in comes Jason Coleman, AKA my suitemate, and the most attractive guy I've ever laid eyes on.”
― Anita Knight, Suite Mates

“All this had no truck whatsoever with the conditions back home, their travails as marginal farmers, their caste ridden daily struggles, the patriarchal limits on the daily existence of the women. But, really, if you scratched the surface, the colleges were little sanctuaries mirroring the larger social politics, their student politics as ossified and as parochial as the regional politics. Somehow when it came to that, things seem to settle into the old patriarchal, feudal structures with Capitalistic flourishes only outwardly changing appearances. Infact all the more misleading- with modernity being limited to a seductive idea of affluence.”
― Sakoon Singh, In The Land of The Lovers

“The college lifestyle is about becoming independent, with no one else around to force you to do anything. So there's this muck that hasn't been dealt with, and because all your arrangements are loose now, you have no one to hold on to, which means you get sucked into the vacuum cleaner and tossed around in it.”
― Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

“My college years were spent among people who were like oil in water, unable to form bonds.”
― Qiu Miaojin

“2020 was the year of distance learning.”
― Steven Magee

“2020 was the year of sickened university students.”
― Steven Magee

“In the best circumstances, applying and getting accepted into a PhD program is an expensive ordeal. Colleges do not attempt to make the process any less stressful or cheaper.”
― Zachariah Renfro