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My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.
I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the nation at the NCAAs.
As a former stand-up comic from my University of Michigan days, the opportunity to participate in a Friars Club roast was bucket-list stuff.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
Talk about full circle, I never saw this coming. It wasn't like I said, 'Someday, I want to be the head coach at the University of Memphis.'
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.
Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
Manipal was the best time I ever had in life: a great university with wonderful teachers, fantastic memories and deep, lifelong friendships.
I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
I think everyone goes through it in university, figuring out whether or not they're doing the right course. I guess I'm the same, but in music.
Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration.
The New York City police department is more representative of the city it serves than most law firms, university faculties, and media companies.
Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.
When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.
I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
If I was working nine to five, acting would be my hobby... I always feel like maybe I should do an Open University degree. But I'm never going to.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'
Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
I left Northwestern University after a year and was in New York playing piano in a little bar on 58th Street, and I didn't know whether to go back.
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.
By the time you're 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn't go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university.
I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.
I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.
I'm not sure I approve of theatre as a university course. I think theatre's something you do. I mean, literature is a subject; theatre is practical.
Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.
My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'
I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.
Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.
Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.