Instead of dishing out college advice, I'll let the professionals handle this one.
Whether you haven't quite yet reached college, are currently studying at a university or are an old soul reminiscing the good ol' days, these famous quotes are sure to resonate with you, evoke laughter, motivate a despaired heart and most of all, make you thankful for college and how it has prepared you for the future.
1. “I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...” -Tom Petty
2. “Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.” -John Green
3. “Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.” -Rainbow Rowell
4. “You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. . . The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.”- Ray Bradbury
5. “I am kind of majoring in bull shitting.” -Kate Voegele
6. “College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?” -David Wood
7. “But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.” -Koren Zailckas
8. "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." -Frank Zappa
9. "Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a co-ed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy." -Emma Watson
10. "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors." -Maya Angelou
11. "All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program." -Mark Zuckerberg
12. "College is such a unique time because you're learning how to be an adult. You're learning to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college." -Anne Hathaway
13. "College is a refuge from hasty judgment." -Robert Frost
14. "After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out." -Steve Jobs
15. "That's what college is for: getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room." -Jeph Jacques
16. "I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing." -Gloria Steinem
17. "I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today." -George Foreman
18. "To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be President of the United States." -George W. Bush
19. "Today, you have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That's right, with your college diploma you now have a crushing advantage over eight percent of the work force. I'm talking about dropout losers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg." -Conan O'Brien
20. “Follow your passion and stay true to yourself. Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means you should follow that.” -Ellen DeGeneres
21. “You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the number of times you get back up.” -Aaron Sorkin
22. “So as you leave this beautiful campus today to follow your dreams and scale great heights in whatever profession you choose, I beg you: don’t buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It's only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, diabetes, heart disease, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.” -Arianna Huffington
23. “Fall forward. Here’s what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career — the most in the history of baseball. But you don’t hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn’t either — because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.” -Denzel Washington
24. “Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead." -Barbara Walters
