One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow. '
When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.
What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization.
I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.
Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.
Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
When girls in Canada dream about becoming members of parliament, they have a pretty good expectation that parliament is going to be around for them when they graduate. There is no such expectation in Afghanistan. It's all still hope and wanting it but not really sure if it's going to be around.
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.