#grad

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade. ↗

— James Worthy

#getting #grade #i #letters #started

I'm fine, love. Agent Grady just needed a cuddle. And possibly a piece of my spleen. ↗

— Abigail Roux

#ty-grady #love

Hey Kid-- so proud of you. so is emily. we wish we could be there, but here's a fat check to make up for it but dont go spending it all out on booze. call you soon. Love, the best big brother ever and Emily and Marie, too." I smiled. It was a mark of how much I loved my big brother that I found his lack of punctuation and proper grammar endearing. ↗

— Kody Keplinger

#humor #love

I want to leave a legacy. I'll leave him in the trunk, tied up, at a parking garage on the campus of the university where he graduated. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#graduated #humor #legacy #university #funny

Shooting up a school won’t help angry kids get the love and good grades they need. Only seducing teachers and blackmailing them can do that. ↗

— Bauvard

#love #school-shooting #teachers #love

I bite off the fingers and spit them out. Lord Loss screams obligingly. One of the snakes digs its fangs into my bald skull and rips out a chunk of flesh. I snatch the snake from its heartless home and chew its head off. I'm starting to enjoy this biting business. ↗

— Darren Shan

#lord-loss #snakes #business

Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There aren't any jobs, the other students informed her; the profession's glutted with tenured old men who won't step aside for the next generation. While the university's busy exploiting you for cheap labor, you somehow have to produce a boring thesis that no one will read, and find someone willing to publish it as a book. And then, if you're unsually talented and extraordinarily lucky, you just might be able to secure a one-year, nonrenewable appointment teaching remedial composition to football players in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, the Internet's booming, and the kids we gave C pluses to are waltzing out of college and getting rich on stock options while we bust our asses for a pathetic stipend that doesn't even cover the rent. ↗

— Tom Perrotta

#graduate-school #life #business

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another. ↗

— Steven J. Carroll

#bravery #courage #determination #inspirational #justice

When we were five, they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Our answers were thing like astronaut, president, or in my case… princess. When we were ten, they asked again and we answered - rock star, cowboy, or in my case, gold medalist. But now that we've grown up, they want a serious answer. Well, how 'bout this: who the hell knows?! This isn't the time to make hard and fast decisions, its time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere chill. Fall in love - a lot. Major in philosophy 'cause there's no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind. Then change it again, because nothing is permanent. So make as many mistakes as you can. That way, someday, when they ask again what we want to be… we won't have to guess. We'll know. [from the movie] ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#graduation #change

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#civil rights #civil rights movement #culture #graduate #graduate school