Semester Quotes

“I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.”

“Cecile was teaching in Berkeley and I was [at Livermore]. He probably had, could have had, some influence on Teller, [for] Teller was quite generous in allowing me one whole semester off to be at Berkeley to work on something and also a semester off at the Institute for Advanced Study. Then I won the Gravity Research Foundation first prize.”

“When you're reaching the end of the semester and you just wanna die. Coffin Making 101 is literally killing me.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz”

“When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.”

“Words matter. All semester, we were looking for the words to say what we needed to say. We were all looking for our voice.”

“I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.”

“Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and veryfew employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that onyour own time.”

“While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?”

“Given the consumer-pleasing politics of today's universities, I have, in effect, seventy new bosses each semester; they're sitting at the desk in front of me.”