Father Quote by Vivienne Ming

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

— Robert B. Parker

It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of…

— Nat Wolff

In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to the Massachusetts…

— Vivienne Ming

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so…

— Tony Visconti

Getting an Education from MIT is like taking a drink from a Fire Hose.

— Anonymous

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare…

— Shia LaBeouf

My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather…

— Alice Eve

Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.

— Jerome Wiesner

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

— Keith Murray

My father would not pay for me to study anything but engineering or math in college.

— Teri Hatcher

As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were…

— Bozoma Saint John

One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.

— Michael Gove