Daily Quote by Alexandra Petri

When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college…

— Baratunde Thurston

I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had…

— Wentworth Miller

Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

— Seamus Heaney

As an undergrad, I was the editor of the Yale humor magazine, and since then, I've published humor in the 'New York Times' and…

— Eric Metaxas

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could…

— Tom Riley

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but…

— Billy Eckstine

I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me…

— Anonymous

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

— Ellie Kemper

I love comedy and did a lot of comedy in college. I was in an improv comedy group with my friends.

— Kevin Rahm

I went to college as an economics major because that was the easiest major that could still please your Asian parents, and then, much…

— Jimmy O. Yang

When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't…

— Ben Schwartz