First Semester Quotes
- My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their… — Eric Allin Cornell
- I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan GarcÃa Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not… — Roberto Bolano
- My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in… — David Sedaris
- Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued… — Benjamin Carson
- My first semester, I got a D in creative writing. — Conrad Hall