Freshman year Quote by Simon Holt

“It wasn't like I was expecting Senior year to be some amazing experience. If anything, I was prepared for it to be pretty much…

— Jenny O'Connell

“The sentence should be: “I was pleasantly surprised when the first day of senior year did not make me want to freak out and…

— Jesse Andrews

“Get it together, I told myself.  This isn’t life or death. It’s just college basketball. Nobody was going to die from what I was…

— Mara Jacobs

“That would make a fantastic college entrance essay. ‘I Killed My Boyfriend and Still Managed to Maintain a 4.2 GPA and the Lead in…

— Robin Benway

“I’m in my junior year but I can’t take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that…

— Anonymous

“He had wanted to be a sophomore.”

— Annie Proulx

“As a kid I was deeply curious as to what college life would be like. Now that I am a university professor, I realize…

— James Kakalios

“When I got to college, when I finally fled the suffocation that I'd built around myself—because, to my father's credit, he'd never asked me…

— Allison Winn Scotch

“No matter how old you are, you are always a freshman.”

— Thomas Neviaser

“As I stomped across the school grounds, all I could see was Cal sitting with my dad in some manly room with leather chairs…

— Rachel Hawkins

“I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth