“Fine,” he said, pulling his college scholarship card out of his shirt pocket. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

While she was visiting colleges with her mom, during the time she and Dill weren’t speaking, he’d weighed heavily on her mind. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A former college radio DJ turned public school kindergarten teacher, he has a gentle, thoughtful manner punctuated by a dry wit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was shy in high school, but then he started playing drums and freshman year of college joined a punk band, and boom, girlfriends. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The method of choosing electors to that odd inspiration called the electoral college varied from state to state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I know it’s not for a long time yet, but I’m excited for college. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“This is ridiculous. I want to go to college. I want to see the world. I never get out of this stupid neighborhood.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I believe that what had generated such college popularity for me was Dr. Lincoln’s book, The Black Muslims in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her that I was finishing up this year too, and that I wasn’t sure where I wanted to go to college. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dad said they played on the same Ultimate Frisbee team in college. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was just like Luke’s, except Annabeth’s also had a big gold ring strung on it, like a college ring. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You should go to college. Become a professor like Mother and Father wanted. And we have to build a cocoonery, remember.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When Tony was Brian’s age the thought of college, any college, was as funny as it was ridiculous. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The college boys that Mrs. Van Hopper would have me know, and the young bank clerks, suitable to my station. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I doubt he expected to go to college. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m really scared to be alone at college.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was not the type of place where you’d want to stop in alone for a drink if you were a lost college boy from up on the hill. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You come on. Do you honestly believe that your mom’s not wanting you to go to college is in your best interest as opposed to hers?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Now there was talk of medical college, which after a literature degree seemed rather pretentious. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Marcy took pride in her ability to hold up her end of the conversation at social gatherings with her husband’s college friends and, later, with his faculty colleagues. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Once I get tenth-grade level, I’m ready to go on to college!” she told me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’m at a college party full of gorgeous people, and I think I’ve just been invited to try out for a band. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A month ago, I’d never dreamed of driving across the country to look at colleges without even being invited. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As I mended ties with my family and prepared for college, Rocco and I continued to talk, but the distance began to take its toll. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It’s scholarship money for college, and Desda can’t hardly read what the award says, let alone try to get into college. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was while she was at the college of architecture that she met Larry McCaslin, who was in Delhi collecting material for his doctoral thesis on “Energy Efficiency in Vernacular Architecture.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish I had gone to college,” she said. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I want a job, sir, so that I can earn enough money to return to college in the fall." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be of more financial help to your family farther down the road with a college degree. Next.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

My parents are always yellin’ at me to improve my grades ’cause I’ll never get into college, but then my parents yell at me all the time. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she said there were some colleges that could do sanctuary as well.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But College Arthur and college parties don’t mix well. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was because of attributes such as these that over a hundred schools wrote to Derric telling him that they would be privileged to have him on their college campuses the next year. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I got it. Thanks. A savings account for college is a good idea.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And I even dared to hope that maybe, by the time I got there, college would extend a welcome to me, which no one had done for Mother Lois. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I spent my summers at prestigious basketball camps like 5-Star Basketball and Eastern Invitational, camps where college coaches prowl, looking for fresh prospects. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mom said it was his way of getting a college education along with me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

About the same time, a strange traffic began at home: college football coaches, come to entice Jim to their schools. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

What I’m telling you is you’ll have lots of opportunities to hook up with nutty girls in college, but you’ll regret it.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

One third of the Cs were college dropouts. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She urges me to apply to colleges out of state—Smith College in Massachusetts, for one, her alma mater. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

That boy, I knew, was a college student from Welch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was providential that we would live together for those four years at college, and after graduation, we continued a friendship that was a healing balm. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She stole her dad's savings account information, went to the public library, used the Internet, and transferred four thousand dollars into the account she had used at college. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Berry and your dad got really serious, I was already away at college. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“No one wants to go to college with me? I was fun in college, you know.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And not just any college—a historically black college, one of the first in this country. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“He says that I shouldn’t even think about boys until after college.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“This is all super easy for you to say. You have loving parents who support you and want you to succeed at stuff. You can afford college.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The River Styx’s current swirled with strange objects— broken toys, ripped-up college diplomas, wilted homecoming corsages—all the dreams people had thrown away as they’d passed from life into death. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ma really wants me in college so no one can write me off the way no one took her seriously for so many years, but sometimes it feels pointless anyway. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Sister Pat had classes at her college and had to leave. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I don’t want to ruin my chances of getting into college next year. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Father and Mama wanted me and Stick to go to college and everything. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I pretend that high school relationships last into college. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As my high school career was coming to an end, I was still being avidly recruited by college programs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t college. You don’t question my actions.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He started staying with us when he dropped out of college. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Rock,” Ben said in a high-pitched voice, sliding across the seat and throwing his arms around Sammy, “please take me someplace quick and screw my college brains out.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought that the only people who went to college were rich white people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They never got to take her to college and wish her a good freshman year, be safe, come home and see us, don’t forget we’re always a phone call away. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This woman, who is white and everything opposite of my mom, with her college degree and good-paying job. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You knew people leaving here for college would sometimes get better jobs, but you had a good job, so it was fine,” said Mike Lacy, a close friend of Martinelli and a coworker at Kaiser. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I went to look up the requirements of an ordinary English major at my college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Girl Scouts was much like a sorority, of the kind I would be excluded from in high school and later on in college. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re also going to give us a huge scholarship donation to help all of us with our college tuition. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So did people making over $50,000 but with no college degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I was sure God wanted me to go to college, because He’d given me that twenty-eight. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Since my parents went to college, it was expected of me that I would go too. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the ceremony is over, we throw our caps in the air, and we are officially graduated from college, the senior class of Brandeis University in the city of Waltham, Massachusetts. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The choice here is often up to you, which is why we read things like citizens’ group and citizens group, teachers’ college and teachers college, veterans’ affairs and veterans affairs. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So you were a student at the college," he said to the vet. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commission sentenced Alfons to restriction to his town limits for a period of two years, six months’ expulsion from college, and one month of hard labor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In college I had few Catholic friends and fewer Catholic teachers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huge facility, a place for the casual workout experience, but also a facility where professional athletes—and high school and college ones—could work out, play ball, lift weights. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Soon we’d go to college and the beautiful Sinclair houses would seem far away and unimportant. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Later, I find Dad sunk into the couch in front of a college football game. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“They did. She told him she wanted to be single when she went to college.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Used only for college classes and offices, King Hall was practically empty after school. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He may be a terrible driver, but I can’t deny that he’s a brain—a very, very big brain—which is why he’s been getting invitations to apply to colleges for years. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“When I get to college, it won’t matter if I’m not charming. And it doesn’t matter if a person is ugly; she can still do schoolwork.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple wasn’t completely sure they grasped the concept of college—that, in just a couple of weeks, she’d be living apart from them, making decisions for herself. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the year 1919 he ran for his college track team in the famous Penn Relays. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I tried to explain to Jesse how she had been groomed for college for much of her young life. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olga was a good student, so I could never understand why she didn’t want to go to a real college. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I was into cigars way back in college.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And there was no way I was going to save money for college. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I swear, if you didn’t need that scholarship, I’d take you out of that program. I’m not sending you there to be in no cooking class. What that got to do with getting into college?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Of course he had plenty to say about this, and about college kids who didn’t care about other people’s things, and everybody trying to rip him off all the time. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to go to the state university but we couldn’t afford it. My father had to send me to a small denominational college.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Modeled on the fraternities then springing up on college campuses, the group took its name from the Greek word kuklos, meaning band. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After trying college for a year, she earned money for her own airplane by playing softball. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This organization is considering a plan to visit certain women’s colleges in this area and interview senior students majoring in mathematics,” the laboratory wrote. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Jordan College was scoured from the dustiest box-room to the darkest cellar, and so were Gabriel and St. Michael’s, till the heads of all the colleges issued a joint protest asserting their ancient rights. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way either of us would have any kind of college fund at the end of this. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately after graduation, they were headed for Lackland Air Force Base for basic training, and then they would use the GI Bill for college. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

So after much debate, Kitty and I have decided to get him settled into one place for his last three years of high school, and then he can apply to college. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Never mind that white children on the other side of town who made precisely the same choices—often for less compelling reasons—are in fact going to college. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was led to the tower, then we passed through it and into the college. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Stroll through Union Square, which, according to Google, features organic candy corn vendors, hint-hint”—Libby should just skip college, I swear to you—“and then walk down, uh...Fourth Avenue. Yeah.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Which is why he went straight back there during his first college break. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She had had a plan, from girlhood on, and had followed it scrupulously: high school, college, boyfriend, marriage, job, mortgage, children. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It would be so sensible to wait until college. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, both harbored smoldering class resentment at people whose parents bought them computers and $100 pairs of Timberlands and unquestioningly paid for their college expenses. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It almost doesn’t seem fair that I will have to leave for college in a few weeks. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Chris submitted to Walt’s authority through high school and college to a surprising degree, but the boy raged inwardly all the while. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One minute Marlena and I were in it up to our eyeballs, and next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Our last year of college began that September. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I was a total basket case for the last six months of college. I would lose it at anybody. You know, you don’t have to do everything all the time.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Three: Away from home and the inevitable comparisons with Gretchen, I enrolled as an art major at a college known mainly for its animal-husbandry program. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After that, she started talking about her plans for college, which I had heard before, so I put down the phone, went to the bathroom, and when I came back, she was still talking. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She would have to go to college again. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This book was written by Mr. Manzi to explain physics to college girls, and if it worked on us he would try to have it published. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The place looks more like a college campus than the home of a retail giant. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There we learned about financial aid, college life, and the process of getting into college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of articles talk about Darren and his superstar high school career—his college possibilities. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In fact, though, colleges have come to reinforce many of the advantages of birth. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had never graduated from college but had fooled hospital officials into believing he was a trained physician with expertise in psychiatry. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It had been made required reading in numerous college courses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had chiseled quite a bit of money from her father to go away to college to see what it was like “out there.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention I still had to look for scholarships and fill out college applications. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In my family, none of us are even allowed to date until after college. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Now I can’t get a part-time job, or apply to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a school ring, like the kind you get in college, and it looks old and worn and has a red gem in lite center. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

These men and women were college educated and had careers as lawyers, doctors, journalists, businesspeople, and politicians. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Because of such an attitude, Permian had established itself as perhaps the most successful football dynasty in the country—pro, college, or high school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She became literary editor of the college paper, joined the sorority Pi Beta Phi, and was even elected class president. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One of them later remarked, “I never have seen such a scared bunch of college boys in my life.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

When they got out of school and college, I mean. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Though not as large or as influential as schools like Hampton, Howard, or Fisk, the college nonetheless had a solid academic reputation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Not everyone knows what their plans are down to the location of their future college at this point in their high school careers. And some people don’t go to college right away.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

One of my most vivid memories is of coming back west from prep school and later from college at Christmas time. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

During my first meeting with him he actually sat back in his chair and fell asleep as I talked about my plans for college. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There’s no way around it; I’m totally dependent on my parents for college tuition. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

"Just general subjects, a regular college course," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was younger than she was, so in the fall he had returned to Hillsdale and the fun of college life. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He’s a college professor. He has to look like that. It’s a rule.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Some stopped off at college along the way, mainly women's colleges or the few co-ed public colleges that existed. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I now had enough money for my first year of college. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They read about the many women he’d dated, going back to his college years, wondering if any of them might actually have been Soviet agents. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Lack of students, mostly. If you’re old enough to go to college, you’re old enough to be drafted. Even if that wasn’t the case, I doubt people can really afford it anymore.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ron and Adam were both home from college to spend Easter with the family. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She and her three sisters had attended church three times a week, rarely watched television, and had each enrolled at Christian colleges after high school. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

My brother was going to college next year. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of us are a few of Baltimore's educated colored men, who teach at the city college for Negroes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was sixteen; he’d been away at college for almost a year, so you couldn’t really call him a child anymore. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t been to college, which accounted for his schoolboy humor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The college boys shrieked and pounded each other in their amusement. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The college lay in summer twilight, set back from the road by a long, sloping lawn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so Dell studied biology in college, which didn't go well because he couldn't store facts. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Shaker took college seriously: the district had a ninety-nine percent graduation rate and virtually all the kids went on to college of some kind. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the third stage, he gave each person two more pages of background on Kidd’s high school and college years. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Someone spread the story years ago, when he first appeared around college from wherever he came from, that he was a graduate of the divinity school. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped through the sliding door, and he followed, pulling it shut behind them, hoping to deter any wasted college students from following. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"How'd you do on those crazy college tests? Sahara told me you and I have the same GPA." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even though my brother Qareeb was the apple of my eye, watching him begin the college application process was a lesson for me in what not to do. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I reminded him that he wasn’t stuck: He could move, switch jobs, consider college. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had dreams that each of their children would graduate from college, so Dad earmarked the money from this job for college savings for the six of us kids. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even know the woman who had given it to her when she was born, an old college friend of her mom’s. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“If I won, the money could go into my college fund.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

From the outset, the drug war could have been waged primarily in overwhelmingly white suburbs or on college campuses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was a big wheel-president of her class and a physics major and the college hockey champion. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the year that Chip had been away at college, Glenn had started to sound a lot like his older brother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My dream is slowly becoming a reality, but my next and most important step lies ahead of me ... in college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was still a college student, working at the library for the summer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Hard to get more uppity than trying to go to college. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jones never finished college, so when he was hired in 1934, it was as a subprofessional scientific aide, the category that most women fell into. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As a result of spending all her time in college with Raj, she continued, she did not make many close friends. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She still talks about it . . . your mother ... but you know something ... it never did happen again ... they went to college ... both of them. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He said it was a liberal state college, had a good English department and low tuition. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one of my few regrets in life, not getting my college degree. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I ask her where she’s from and she answers with practice a certain fancy neighborhood in Seoul, and then offers other facts I might want to hear: she’s twenty-two, a college graduate, a good cook. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had more than a year left before college, but Sean was ushering him out the door, like he couldn’t wait for Finn to go. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’s raided my mother’s closet and is wearing her favorite black T-shirt and a black leather jacket from her “punk phase” in college. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Did he know that Negroes like my grandfather had been freed during those days just before the college had been founded? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ours was terrible. Maybe like eight colleges showed up.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And like most successful college graduates, I was ready for real life to start. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She started at Truman right after college, but it took her seven years to get the position of Volpe’s assistant director. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had a mortgage to pay, on top of college tuition for my sister, and that meant working overtime. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My brother said recently on the phone that if he makes it to the pros, I don’t have to worry about my college money at all. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you’re an old man.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Because James is a whopping five years older than I am and he dropped out of college. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He said thickly, “Maybe he did go back to college.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s very revered to be a Pepette or a cheerleader,” said Julie Gardner, who had come to Odessa from a small college town in Montana as a sophomore. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other winner is a girl in fourth grade who teaches advanced calculus to college kids. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I know I’m probably not going to play college ball anywhere, not even at the division-three level. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

All morning, I lost myself in Daisy’s college book. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’d never gone to college, which gave him the wrong idea about himself, but the only reason he hadn’t was because he’d been forced into getting a job after his parents died. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Big Ma turned her nose up at the college girls with Afros in favor of the Negro lady in the square sunglasses and snappy suit toting the equally snappy oval bag. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pretend that I’ll be graduating in a few months and going to college, like my friends. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“They’ll send it to me when I am in college,” I told her, chuckling. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Closing my eyes, I began to imagine walking around a large, crowded college campus. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I studied philosophy in college and didn’t realize until my senior year that no one would pay me to philosophize when I graduated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Mommy and I had a professor in college called Miss Butt.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He wears a blue oxford shirt, khakis, a camel-colored corduroy blazer bought for his college interviews that is too warm for the sultry day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the enmity between the colleges was forgotten in a moment when the town children attacked a colleger: then all the collegers banded together and went into battle against the townies. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He said I didn’t have to be a lawyer, I could be anything I wanted—that’s what college was for. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But then he talks about the stuff One-Fifteen did that Khalil will never get to do, like go to college, get married, have a family. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“In college, your grandmother was a physics major who dreamed of one day working on spaceships.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

If this were an American Dream story, Dandy, who arrived in Chicago in the early 1930s, would have found a good job and a pathway to college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We make a big group at the local community college, all of us kids, Mr. Hameed, and Dad, who took a personal day off from work. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I want to be average, but I also want an A. I have to think about colleges for next year, and they will want to see more than my SAT scores. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe when I get to college, that’s all people will know about me—that I do music.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She had gone to New York to attend college, so excited, so eager for all the sounds and smells of that busy city. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The assumption was that everyone was working toward college, which meant that you never hid your intelligence for fear of someone saying you talked like a white girl. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For the past three summers, he had been taking college courses. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he managed pretty well and kept working on his college degree as hard as ever. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the colleges where lower-income students tend to enroll have limited resources and offer a narrow range of majors, leaving some students disenchanted and unwilling to continue. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps of his college and he looked very handsome in his uniform. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly with prep school jerks and college jerks. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

"How did you know I went to college?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kathy’s goal for college for the kids,” he said, “is like her mother’s was for her, that they not have to work.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Returning to Luling or Birmingham was never a consideration, as both his parents and aunt passed away while he was in college. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather hold him out and let him take his chances in college. If it wasn’t the football season, it would be much easier,” he said in the silence of the locker room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the beginning of the year Ms. G has been talking about how to get into college and what different colleges are like. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I'd be paid and on my way to picking a new college. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

About half of my high school class had entered the college, and I became friendly enough with many of the other non-Hasidic Students. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I'm counting the days until I graduate and head off to college. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Now every time the pig is filled, you can go to the bank yourself and make a deposit. And every penny in the account will go to help pay for your college education.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She performed at every major black college, often for several seasons in a row. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Guards could win admission to college if they caught an inmate trying to escape—an incentive system that ambitious guards seized upon. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I was telling him about receiving the recruiting letters from colleges, talking about how I knew I could make it to the pros. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In college she had harbored lengthy infatuations, with students with whom she never spoke, with professors and TAs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You going to college, figure it out," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps the baby could live with her parents while she was away at college. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stella remembered how proud folks had been last year when Liza Twitty had left for college in Atlanta. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thinking about colleges put her in a good mood, as did being in a big city. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Know that the blacks who spend money in your store and help put food on your table and send your children to college cannot open their own stores. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all those other jobs, you needed some college, but not to become a correction officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an unusual enough occurrence that even someone from our island who had gone to college fifty years ago was remembered for it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was constantly surprised by who bought from us: a bumed-out hippie, a well-dressed woman, a dull guy you'd never look twice at, a man in a fake wig and mustache, a preppie college kid. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He was probably one of the oldest undergraduates at college, but he joined the military after high school in Iran and didn't move to Baton Rouge until his early twenties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The college sessions never failed to be exhilarating. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wanted to go to college since kindergarten, when he used to drag around his plastic doctor kit. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I never thought getting into college would be easy, but I was learning to focus and have faith in my own story. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The job had sounded impossible when he arrived fresh off his first year of college, looking to make some summer money, still a skinny teenager with sandy blond hair and a narrow, freckled face. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He lives in Hampden town, and has published a book of photographs of the college through the years, which has made him much sought-after as an after-dinner speaker at the various clubs in town. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wandered past the quad while munching on it and headed for the east wing to see if the college reps had decided to stick around until lunchtime this year. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After her third year in college, she decided to leave school and get involved full time in the North Korean issue. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He sounded fatalistic, talking less and less about college, more about his under-construction new website called Providence. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jill had recently earned her doctorate in education and had managed to teach English at a community college in Delaware not just through Joe’s years as a senator but also through his two presidential campaigns. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It meant choosing a major in college, getting grades, passing tests, and knowing where you wanted to go. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When I asked her what her dad did, she said, “He’s a college professor. He teaches the dead languages.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dads parents died when he was young—his father when he was ten, and his mother when he was a freshman in college. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They established that Queenie and the gentleman’s wife had been at the same college, albeit nearly twenty years apart, and traded literary quotations in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At the time, he had just dropped out of college and was living on nearby Long Island, working as an electrician. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then I had an even more depressing thought: Jeffrey might not be around long enough to go to college. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my box were three letters, two branded with the logos of colleges, and one from Justin, my best friend back in the Bronx. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One afternoon at Valley Forge I was talking to my college adviser about what to do after I received my associate’s degree. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My mother returned when she was eighteen, to attend college at the state university in Gainesville. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They had a little boy who must be off to college by now. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ear, Eye and Arm passed health spas, vegetable markets, a junior college, beauty salons and libraries, although only Ear appreciated the view. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Can we imagine this happening while most black men landed decent jobs or trotted off to college? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, if we don’t win anything extra by helping you guys,” groused the guy from New York City, “why should we help? We’ve already scored our college scholarships.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I thought that there was even a chance of me going to college. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Are any of your sisters and brothers in college?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“If you do participate and complete the two-year program—keeping your grade point average at a three point five or above—you are awarded a scholarship to any Oregon college,” Mrs. Parker tells me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I saw they wouldn't even let me in through the door, let alone give me a large scholarship like the one I had at my own college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“About three years. We would visit during the summer, but we moved for good when Mom got a job at the tech college. I’m still trying to get used to this place.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Gradually, he downgraded his hopes, letting go of the idea of college, thinking he’d train to become an electrician instead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He also reportedly told a college audience that 45 homeless people die each second—which would mean a whopping 1.4 billion dead homeless every year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then I'd be sent South again to head the college—just as the mayor's cook had been made principal of the school after she'd become too lame to stand before her stove. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m also curious because I want to move to New York for college. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At the time, the decision to skip college was not that unusual, even for a child of the middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had been to New York only once, in college, in the days when you had to hold your purse tight with both hands and didn’t dare touch anything on the subway, even the poles. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My teacher, Miss Winthrop, was young, a college girl, I think. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister is going to a “small liberal arts college back East” called Sarah Lawrence. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then I thought that if she went to college that would be four years, four and a half if you thought about her finishing high school, too. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But overall, community colleges tend to be places where dreams are put on hold. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In my era at Truman, many graduates did go on to achieve high levels of success—they became doctors, lawyers, college professors, engineers, business owners, high-ranking military officers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I read the story several times in college because I identified with John as the hope of an entire community. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Later, in the afternoon, after the professors had huddled and made several phone calls, the college held a press conference. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Worried that he might be sent to live with his grandparents in Kentucky, Hugh turned to the school's guidance counselor, who knew of a family whose son had recently left for college. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She told us art books in the town libraries saved her life and taught her to dream and made her want to go to college. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I had attended college and university with women for years, and had had a small handful of love affairs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I studied at a Negro teachers’ college in Maryland. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a college app, not creative writing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Later, when he makes it to college, no one will mock him aloud. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Would you go back to college if you won the inheritance?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite everything, I am still graduating in June and entering college in August. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even know if I want to go to college.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The day after receiving the letter from the college, Mia broached the prospect of a raise with the manager of the diner. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His efforts, however, turned up nothing—until December, when he learned from an inspection of tax records that Chris had given away his college fund to OXFAM. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school wasn’t as discriminating as the better-known medical colleges in Boston; the press of acceptances necessitated an expansion. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know much about the world, but I knew something about colleges, or at least about homework, and so claimed that I was going to Stanford to live in a dorm. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But if you ace your SATs, you get to go to a good college. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She was no longer in college, having dropped out during her third semester because of morning sickness, two Ds, and one F. Lily, she thought, would be simpler than Savannah. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You’re a very mixed-up person. Sandra, personally, is much happier since she was psychoanalyzed. Some doctor at the college helped her out.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went away to college, my vivaciousness ultimately worked against me. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“So, like, you in college and you hate law, so when you graduate you want to be in this?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Jonah and Isaac don’t have to worry about how they dress, or whether they’ll have the money to finish college, or anything,” Lael said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Worse, in April he had broken the news that he was dropping out of college. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When I was a freshman in college, I began typing all my assignments. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rearranged my dad’s pillows and talked uselessly about college basketball and the weather outside, knowing that he was listening, though it exhausted him now to speak. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Following this unpredicted situation, I had to decline acceptance to the college I was going to attend. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had originally wanted to be a teacher, he told me, but his parents were too poor to send him to college. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had already completed sixteen hours of college credits and would get no closer toward graduation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I look down and see that it’s from a college in North Carolina, the one he’s wanted to go to most of all. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He was studying for his GED, and one night when we were driving back from a job, he told me he was going to try a semester at a community college. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We’re barely halfway through the second semester of junior year, and all I can think about is getting the hell out of here and going to college. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He is looking forward to having the money a medical degree can bring, and especially to putting his children through college without the scholarships and part-time jobs he needed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They stared at me as the fellows had done when I was being initiated into my college fraternity. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he's in the States, where he went to prep school and is now in college, he's one of us, our buddy. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“But Rome was not built in a day. Keep it in mind, comrade, that this is not your Oxford college. For you what is a nonsense for Masses it is something different.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many people very glad to see Cabot Searcy—who had begun his college years as a charming, friendly, and polite young man—leaving for good. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His squad’s wearing cool brand-new Nike uniforms, like a college team. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let him be a musician if he wants to, and not plague his life out sending him to college, when he hates to go.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that one day in the near future I, too, would be going to college. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mersenne’s community was an informal group which met and exchanged letters, though he expressed a wish to form a proper college that would function mainly through correspondence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself in college and living in the dorm, away from home. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

No one has ever gone to a real college. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“How long is it until you go to college?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The understanding had always been that Rocky would be the one to leave home, go to college or join the Army. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked into college for the next year. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At first, not much will happen, then suddenly Quang will be asked to leave college. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She’d be able to sleep as usual until eleven, attend classes and go straight to work from the college. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We unbuckled our belts and waited while mostly men in suits, college students, and a few women with children made their way down the aisle and to the front of the plane. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

This would explain why he seemed so certain about college when I’d asked him about it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

After college they’d both moved to the Bay Area to become chefs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's every single day for the last twenty years, from my first internship out of college all the way up through the ranks to vice president of sales. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I said, curious; I had always pictured Henry teaching Greek, in some forlorn but excellent college out in the Midwest. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His mother had handled them all, with the help—through the mail—of his father, and he had some money in an account for college. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the other students in my classes were in high school or still in college, and I was twenty-one, but I didn’t care. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He had married on the rebound from the rotten time he had in college, and Frances took him on the rebound from his discovery that he had not been everything to his first wife. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The tableau of a little boy engaged in mental combat with a judge, doctor, or college professor some eight or ten times his age was often greeted with mirth and wonder. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If there was a college basketball game playing on the TV in the evening, Barack came in sometimes to join them for a little while to watch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The college admissions system often seems ruthlessly meritocratic. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bob Gentry used to be picked on because he was gay, but ended up becoming one of the first gay mayors in California and was a dean at Ms. Gruwell’s college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well...good-bye college. Good-bye everything for that matter.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

—Look, I went to college—night school for six years—while I worked at various jobs during the day to make ends meet. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got distributed in high schools, posted on college bulletin boards. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hell, she knew very well how to live here, much better than I with my college training—training! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And practice for when I go to college next year. I’ll have to drive myself to and from campus when I visit Bushwick. I'm applying to Georgetown.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was divorced, with a son he was putting through college, because, as he put it, “Officer after officer will tell you: There’s no way in hell you’d want your kid to be a CO.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came from a poor but ambitious family, and she had received a scholarship to go to college in Europe. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They chose the United States because they'd already lived there for a period of time, while my dad was in college. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She said, “Why don’t you major in P.E., enjoy your college years, then maybe come back here in a few years and teach gym?” Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam was saying, “The times are changed. A boy must be a specialist or he will get nowhere. I guess that’s why I’m so glad you’re going to college.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The new policy was shaped by the kind of eugenicists that William had met in his college days, and Cold Spring Harbor’s Charles Davenport led the charge. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even though I’d traveled to Morocco in college, this was my first international fencing competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The year I was packed off to private school, Chapter Eleven went off to college. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was exactly what you’d think of when you imagined a college campus. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mixed in with all the college students and farm boys and out- of-work loggers, there were grizzled hard-rock miners from all over the West. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And some relative’s son is graduating from college this year. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In college, it got easier, once 1 figured out that I was as capable as the next dude—maybe more so. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I wanted to play college football! If I sit out my senior year, no college is going to pay any attention to me! I’ll never forgive you, Dad!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would take a break from college and keep working. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Figuring out how to get one is the core quandary facing the nation’s college nongraduates. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

While I was in college, I kept up with a few of my high school friends, most especially Santita, who’d landed at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it’s not enough to pay for all of college.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As we walk through the campus, I get to feel what it’s like to be in college, to be in a place where new ideas and people will reveal themselves to me every single day. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her parents had encouraged these expeditions, believing she was at the library, or attending lectures — they hoped she would go to Princeton for college, live with them at home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Bribe is such an ugly word, Eddie. I’m simply offering you a college scholarship to show my appreciation. It’s the least I can do after firing your mother.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could graduate from college and get a professional job. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could start a business on that. Or pay for college. Well, state college.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he had to go to a junior college. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the war intensified, the town post office was awash in civil service job bulletins, competing for the eyes of locals and college students alike. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“The May before college started. Maybe that was a mistake. Anyway, it’s done.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Despite my nerves, all I can think of is the old college rule, A Chi Omega never walks with a cigarette. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Believe me, I could teach a college course on snubs. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Later, when I began to see how blacks were used in the workplace, which colleges accepted blacks and which did not, I began to think about race in purely negative terms. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t stress about getting into a good college because I already knew I couldn’t afford to go to a good college. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“So, if I get good grades, I can get free money to go to college?” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She told me Sheriff Smith had found her a family to live with, a good family who’d take care of her; she’d finish high school, and then maybe go to secretarial school or even college. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He says: "I won twenty thousand dollars. I'm using it to go to college." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I knew from my own daughter’s college visits that kids either connected with a campus when they saw it, or didn’t. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had lived, I know he was gonna make sure you got some kinda college.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But I can either stay here in Brooklyn and go to a community college, or one of the City University schools, or go away. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was looking at which colleges he wanted to go to. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But until the school was ready, classes and all activities were being held at the community college. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was a college town up in some mountains. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four casinos down on the strip, Jule surveyed six restaurants until she found a place to order a coffee and chat up a lonely college student who was just starting work on the night shift. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

"I might just go to college on the G.I. Bill" I paused. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Remember," I said, "that time you hitchhiked back to college with me after Skit Night?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A permanent trust fund for college scholarships had been established with a donation of one million dollars “from one of your former students.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them end up at its satellite campuses, or at West Chester, Bloomsburg, Slippery Rock, or other institutions in Pennsylvania’s network of publicly supported colleges. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Many colleges came under attack as centers of Bolshevism. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Bill Joy got an extraordinary, early opportunity to learn programming on a time-share system as a freshman in college, in 1971. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Even when I changed my mind and decided not to go to college, it didn't bother them. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He wrote out a Special Progress Report on my achievements in the prison, he attached a copy of the college acceptance letter, and he sent it to the parole board for consideration. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In those days she was one of the few whom we had attracted who had attended college. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mid-1960s, with “dreams of working at NASA,” greater numbers of black college students found their way to Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She tried to explain: “It’s just that every time I’ve come home for the past five years—before that, even. From college— something’s changed a little more . . .” “—and you’re not sure you like it, eh?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Granny said, “Oldest college in the country. Whatever made you think of Harvard?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In turn, some of the blame for that lies, I think, with schools of education in colleges and universities which place little or no emphasis on mathematics in their teacher-training courses. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d love to see what a real college campus looked like, he said; I mentioned to him that a kid from my town in New Jersey was in her third year there, loving it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I drew this character when I was in college,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

When the eldest left for college, the next ascended to the throne. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had come to him, this odd and lovable trio, over eight months ago, from the home of an old and dear college friend. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heidi comes out of the bathroom, having done a total costume change, standing there in sweats and an old Pitt T-shirt, looking like college photos Mom used to have of her. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

"Look, Mr. Franz,” he declared, "you don’t need to worry about me. I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I’m living like this by choice.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I asked you a question, young man. Why am I so stupid? Didn’t she get that little book out of her college library, or what?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It may be that a woman’s tendency toward “spinster- hood” is a contributory cause to her attending college, rather than the other way around. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All college students are being asked to sign an official statement to the effect that they “sympathize with the Germans and approve of the New Order.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For a few moments he considered asking her to his room, but instead he laughed and told her how back in college he’d almost done something very brave. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent some time on the college lawn, watching other people wander about. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all the same you’d be surprised to know what our college there is doing. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should be embracing my chance to get a college degree, not melting down about my past. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“We’ll just be the kinds of girls who have boyfriends in college.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a character, all right. He was just like that in college, too. He just never grew up. Some people don’t have to. They’re lucky.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He told him he had to go to college, there could be no two ways about it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their love, along with my independence from college and home, helped me clear my mind. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She wanted to go back to college, to become a teacher. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

You get to continue on to high school, and then you're assigned to a college. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Wallace told his supporters that he’d physically block schoolhouse doors rather than allow black children and youth to enroll into Alabama’s all-white public schools and state colleges. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“As a way of showing her gratitude, she is giving each of you a twenty-thousand-dollar college scholarship.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You better learn to say them fancy words. You’re gonna be out in the world soon, college girl. And besides, rich boy from across the street knows how to say it.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For a decade after graduating from college he probed his soul for signs of a divine calling while earning his keep as a country schoolteacher and then apprentice lawyer. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I never experienced one college session that didn’t show me ways to improve upon my presentation and defense of Mr. Muhammad’s teachings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Ma this once and the next day she came home with college brochures. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Here was a woman with impeccable Yankee credentials, who had been educated at elite colleges and had few living family members or other attachments. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He talked to me about the possibility of playing ball in college, and I was encouraged. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Their parents made them put most of it away for college and “the future,” whatever that meant. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Based on GPA and scores only, which one of you is more likely to get into a good college? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Just so you know, Mom, I’ll do all of my college and scholarship applications by myself.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In the hot kitchen, tired at the end of her workday, she demanded to know, ‘Why aren’t the colleges here in Sacramento good enough for you? They are for your brother and sister.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going to college was not an option for me; it was an expectation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They have about $100,000 equity in the house and about $10,000 in college funds they started for the girls last year. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was about to go away to college anyway. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed, though, when he came home for Christmas, that he was reading a book called Les Misérables, and I decided that it must be the kind of a book a college student reads. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t just want to be okay. I don’t want to be a substitute teacher or a cashier. I didn’t work that hard in school and college to just be okay.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Only 41 percent of low-income students entering a four- year college managed to graduate within five years, the U.S. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Hanako had known two former college girls, previously rich, who’d gone to work in a canning factory just to get out of the camps. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So brilliant that I could get a full scholarship to college and major in it, except why bother? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Some college kids were huddled around another table, doing some sort of serious research project. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was fresh out of college with a physiology degree when her adviser sent her for an interview. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But that was what wretched Malvolio thought, whose part he had played once on the college lawn—“Nothing that can be can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He knew, too, that the passport to success in America is not getting into college but finishing with a four-year degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Three years from now,” he says, “when you break up with your first college boyfriend, you’ll call me and I’ll stay up all night talking you through it.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dame Hannah Relf was the head of one of the women’s colleges, an elderly gray-haired lady whose daemon was a marmoset. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Also crossing right now: a Desert Storm vet running for immigrant rights and a college student raising funds for National Parks preservation. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Throughout my college years I visited Archie whenever I came home. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s almost,” Dad continued thoughtfully, “like you’re triplets. Think of it: you’ll be in college together, get married at around the same time, and maybe your kids will be close in age.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I played football in high school but couldn’t get into a college. You know the only thing I’m good at?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But colleges, particularly small liberal arts colleges like Reed, tend not to be rigid bureaucracies. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In college, then in graduate school, he behaves much as he always has. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mike Winchell wasn’t at all what the college recruiters were looking for, and the fears that had always haunted him were probably right: he wasn’t fast enough, or tall enough. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Career advisors had asked me, at fifteen, about my intended major in college. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I also reminded him that winning a college scholarship isn’t the only reason we’re playing these games.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Wallace claimed it was his state’s constitutional right, not the federal government’s right, to operate Alabama’s public schools, colleges, and universities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years, the scene was a weird mix of drunks, derelicts, and the occasional college students who showed up because the risk of getting a knife pulled on you sounded fun. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She spent eight years in college without finishing the five-year undergraduate course and taking her degree. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra knew that Grandma had taught history at some college, and that Grandpa had traveled a lot, running a small importing business. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“All right. Have a good day, sweetie. Dill, you too. And congratulations on college. You made a smart choice. I’m excited for you.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I was too much alive: car, college, dating, etc. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have the option. Granger uses me to win basketball games, and I use Granger to get to college. That’s the deal.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I had secretly decided not to go to college, but I thought that maybe I would move to the same town as her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to encourage kids to strive to get to college and, once there, to stick with it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I told my psychiatrist about the book and Bill and about Sam and Patrick and all their colleges, but he just keeps asking me questions about when I was younger. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, he also had to figure out what to do about the numerous college scholarships being offered to him. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

In front of me were documents from my soon-to-be college, thanking us for our payment in full for the first two semesters. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Sonny, you have to have a diploma from a college to be an engineer. I don’t have one. That means I can never be an engineer.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d rather pay class by class at community college, and deliver pizza at night while I live cheap in Dad’s house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

After they get to college, it’s often too late for many of them who lack adequate backgrounds in algebra and analytic geometry. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way my mother was when I left to go to college in September. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was no one hundred per cent sure way not to have a baby, it said in an article my mother cut out of the Reader's Digest and mailed to me at college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

When she finished school, she won admission into a mediocre college of architecture in Delhi. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it came time to apply to college, Joy got a perfect score on the math portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“When I found out I was pregnant, I wanted to abort. I wanted to finish college and start a career, and I thought a baby would derail my hard work.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you turned there were college students in T-shirts, signing people up for sickle cell anemia testing and voter registration. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anything. Go to college. Join the circus. Live naked in a tepee. Whatever. Just nothing involving snakes or poison, though.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want us to go to college someday, because we might get strange ideas. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Did so,” the college kid singsonged under his breath. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Students like these remain in college because they can hardly imagine doing otherwise. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Because you are going away to attend the college at Harvard they tell me,” she said. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better to keep your mouth shut than to risk one of the college kid’s snotty lines, like: “Don’t say ^interested. When what you mean is ««in- terested.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’re well prepared in high school, you shouldn’t have trouble in college.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I got my act together; I’m even lookin’ at colleges for next year. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today I have a college admission interview with a Yale alum. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But before he went off to college, Roosevelt would undergo another transformation. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Buford suddenly remembered: the buck-toothed boy is a college boy, very bright, very well educated. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart just isn’t in it, so I get up off the table and into my car and start driving toward the college town where Donna lives. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Usually when she used to wake me up, she had wanted to talk about college. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the summer, we’d had a college fair, and representatives from the top colleges had been there to sell us on their institutions. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We walk through my old hood, hand in hand, talking small talk about school, college, SATs, and Bushwick. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

You probably don’t know that after I finished high school, I went on to college. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Pulling up to the Whitgift School on the first of the two days of competition, I decided the school looked more like a prestigious college campus than any primary school I’d ever seen before. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My sister’s national and international ranking was climbing steadily, even though she was balancing competing with a heavy courseload at college. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Not to Maine, Amelia. To Ohio. I’m aiming to go to college.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

My team and I visited community colleges and some of the big urban high schools around Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My best friends from college—Shannon, Kaya, and Philip—stayed in touch and tried to encourage me, but I was lost. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I said, “Why would you lie about something like that? Why wouldn’t you just tell him that he has no money for college?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Killed by a drunk college kid while he walked home from his neighbor’s house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Chantal’s heavy footsteps rush up the stairs, home from her college classes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mom had to spend eight weeks up in Charleston, taking college courses to renew her teaching certificate. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A businessman learns the boy’s story and promises to underwrite part of the cost of his college education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So as college approached, I decided that I couldn't live without Slash. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After high school graduation, Reggie went to a year of college in Virginia, and to play basketball. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I know it’s not enough to pay for all of college, Professor Buzzkill. But it is fifty thousand dollars, which will make college a hell of a lot easier.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you miss the shot on purpose, Eddie, I will pay all your expenses to put you through the college of your choice. What do you think of that?” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

—How can you say you want to go to college? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All philosophers prefer to live in towers, as may be seen by visiting the room which Erasmus chose in his college at Cambridge, but Merlyn’s tower was even more beautiful than this. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like Martin a lot, but there's not much hope that we'll stay together once college starts. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By Friday, Creekwood High Schools collective prom fever has morphed into college fever. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She reached behind her and pulled her college sweatshirt from the backseat. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It felt to him as if he had just undergone some powerful rites of passage and now belonged to the western mountains instead of to the East Coast, fair-haired college culture. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drive to our favorite coffee shop, get our favorite drinks, and talk about Jamie and college and our parents, but mostly Jamie if I'm being honest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

What was different this time were the piles of marked-up college admission essay drafts. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

No one there knew he was a prominent doctor of sociology, with years of experience as a college professor and several well-respected books. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Carter Cowboys had the best high school linebacker in the country and maybe the best defensive back, along with ten other players who were sure to be recruited by major colleges. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when I practiced with the rotating college students, other than during lessons, I still usually played solo. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He played basketball because he thought it would help him win a prestigious scholarship to an Ivy League college. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The college sessions sometimes ran two to four hours— they often ran overtime. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That publicity stunt at the college?” said Kojo, crunching into a piece of cinnamon toast. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She'd never felt she fit in with girls from the city in college. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Four years of high school...no, five. Because something would come up to delay me. Then four years of college. I’d be a dried-up old maid of twenty-five before I was finished.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about our first thesis together, in college. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They was nice to you at college, Ignatius. Now tell the truth. They let you hang around there a long time. They even let you teach a class.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought back to my darker days after college when I battled depression and uncertainty, unable to find a job in the corporate world like my friends. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On a college visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge the summer before senior year, Sasha met a fellow fan of the intricately plotted web comic Homestuck on a subway platform. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You need to go back to college, sweetie potato. You’re so smart.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They were students at the University of Michigan, in one of the northernmost states in America, which meant they were sufficiently cosmopolitan to travel hundreds of miles from the south to go to college. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

From my own brief teaching stint, I knew that colleges cleared out by June. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red brick buildings of the prison looked friendly, like the buildings of a seaside college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

So many of us arrived at college not even aware of what our disadvantages were. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got to have college training. Like a doctor, almost. Takes a lot of money to go to veterinary school.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the famous woman poet at my college lived with another woman—a stumpy old Classical scholar with a cropped Dutch cut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Mom, he’s not even out of college yet.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I understand that life after high school is probably something I should be thinking about, but I can’t picture me in college and I don’t know how to plan for something I can’t imagine. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Sure. You have to. They don’t let you study just Talmud in that college. I’ll be majoring in psychology.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Yes, when he goes away to college,” Papá uttered wearily. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I’d spent the past four years locked away in the padded room of college, reading Keats and Eudora Welty and worrying over term papers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Or maybe, since he dropped out of state college and started working at Pagoda Pizza, he’s more like eighteen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Right away I was disappointed that I wasn't going to college. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

My big sister, Janae, is coming home from her first year of college, after finishing up a school internship, and she'll be spending the rest of her summer break with me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I first learned about HeLa cells and the woman behind them in 1988, thirty-seven years after her death, when I was sixteen and sitting in a community college biology class. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Or rather, the two who she has are not in this neighborhood anymore, and her college friends are off traveling for the summer. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I never imagined her succumbing to an arranged marriage, especially not right out of college. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Probably. To be honest, I think he's mostly just interested in ogling college girls rather than checking out the merits of the campus.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then, she talked about how she couldn’t wait to get out of here and go to college where people appreciate things like that. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

To Casteen, these are steps to remove what he describes as “artificial barriers” to a college education placed in the way of otherwise deserving students. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After several semesters Myma disappeared from the college, saying in her offensive manner, “This place can’t teach me anything I don’t know.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime after three children and trying to finish college, my father joined the Marines. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

This bridge has more traffic because it links downtown with the west side of Bartlett, where the high school is and the local college is and all these neighborhoods are, growing up in between. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He wants to go to college. Don’t tell him I told you. Let him tell you, and you be surprised.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I left home to go to college. That was something no one in my family had ever done, but I felt like I needed to see more, find my place, you know?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The Three Musketeers pushed and carried and dragged the college kid all the way back to their own lines, Weary’s story went. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Athletes trying to beef up their college resumes. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It appeared to be a college admission essay. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She said she wanted to go on to college. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is proud that her money pays Belky’s tuition at a private high school and eventually a college, to study accounting. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Beats finishing college and hating what you do. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had to focus on finding a way to pay for college. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

All their college applications had been sent in, and many had already been admitted to schools. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“That you spent all his money for college?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It had not occurred to him that doors wouldn’t just open for a man with a college degree. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She’d said he ran like the wind, which might be his ticket to a college up north. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

People say he could have played in college, but people also say Eugene couldn’t read. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I better write fast before she leaves for college and gets too busy. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She tells me about education courses in college in which professors advised future teachers that they had to win respect from students before they showed much of their own humanity. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were looking for the “fist” of those college students. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

One missed paycheck could leave you without electricity; one missed homework assignment could put you behind and possibly out of college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He worked, after graduating from college, for Westinghouse, building nuclear submarines. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d enrolled me in two more challenging courses—college algebra, which terrified me, and biology, which didn’t but only because I didn’t know what it was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Of passing Lydia, home from college, on the street, where he stared at her with dead eyes but with no words between them. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I was almost fainting and dying to get back to college and tell everybody. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The only actual poll I ever took myself was informal and designed to answer the burning question: What percentage of college women enjoy watching the Three Stooges? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s gift money given to students with excellent grades to attend college.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Marcus goes off on a tangent about different schools that his girlfriend, Tiffanie, is looking at and how he’s going to a community college near whatever school she chooses. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Most fast-food jobs were taken by college students—or more accurately, by college graduates. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Even when your father was in college and we needed money.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Nash, a school counselor and the only college graduate in the singing group, this was a snow day. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But soon after he started college, he made a surprising decision. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The back room looked like a combination garage, college dorm, and computer lab. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Here’s what I found difficult to accept: I had to choose between college and turning pro while talented male gymnasts got to turn pro at the end of college. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The whole college thing in general went by like that. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In a funny way, Jesses ignorance of the college process helped. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college- age villain was wearing to Harvard this year. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The owner was contacted. A Henry Winter. Goes to school up at the college. He says he lent the vehicle to Mr. Macaulay for the evening.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That is, until he left for college at the beginning of the summer. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Varsity football and baseball captain, on my way to college just a few months from now. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he ran out of high school kids to whip, he took on Pete and thirteen other college runners in a two-mile race at Compton. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Closer in, leaning against the fence with stoic faces was a mix of local coaches, involved fathers, skuzzy agent wannabes, scouts from prep schools and even colleges. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It sounded very safe, almost like peacetime, almost like just going normally on to college. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he didn’t know it, he was a temporary person, like the college kids and art students who came over for dinner and were never seen again. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The man died without a penny, yet his children grew up to graduate from college, to become doctors, professors, teachers, and professionals all. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd left Lynbrook for a program called "middle college," where high school seniors could take classes at the local community college, and his absence finally allowed me to focus on other guys. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Your mother’s neat, Moira would say, when we were at college. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘There’d be a crest or something. A design or motto to go with the college name.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you have to promise me you’ll stop bugging me about college.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I had always looked down on my mother's college, as it was coed, and filled with people who couldn't get scholarships to the big eastern colleges. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But Terryl found a community college, feeding off encouragement from the Man- dels, the family she worked for at the accounting firm, and her own raw faith that she could change her circumstances. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Turns out she took a couple of screenwriting classes in college, so she knows a little about it. She offered to read my script for me when I’m done!” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And then, with a phone call from a college football recruiter, all those dreams began to fade away. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has big plans for the younger ones: graduations, proms, college, professions. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“He was a random college guy,” I remind her. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

If I didn’t need a scholarship to even think about attending college, I’d quit these inane games! Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some who take his classes are honors students; others won’t make it to college, either because they are not academic enough, they don’t have the money, or they will get pregnant and have babies. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Don’t you ever want to go to college? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a while, but I eventually got my bachelor’s degree from a college that mails the coursework to inmates at my prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Robert went away to high school and college and then fought for the Union in the Civil War, although his mother didn’t want him to. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin had watched the flurry of college applications from afar, everyone getting ready to leave home for the next phase of their lives. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Actually, what I wish is that I were there with her, touring colleges and having a normal senior-year experience. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

These teams pulled in big rowdy crowds as well as college scouts, but my parents were adamant that Craig not sacrifice his intellectual development for the short-lived glory of being a high school phenom. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had done this several times when I was in high school and in college in California, for no reason really except to display his authority in front of my mother and his co-workers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Benton’s first entry in the book was dated about three months before he began college, so Cabot quickly thumbed through to find the point at which he had met Benton. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His girlfriend was going to Saddleback—our local community college—and he wanted to be where she was. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s the beginning of your college fund, Joseph,” said my mother. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malia’s been living and working in New York, finishing out her gap year before college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you turned there were college students in T-shirts, signing people up for sickle cell anemia testing and voter registration. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My big sister is carrying the whole intellectual weight of the family now that she’s the first one to go to a four-year college. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Though she seemed old at the time, the agent was most likely fresh out of college. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Right after high school, she left Pike County, making her way through college and law school, spending time in France, Scotland, and Ireland, and beginning a high-powered legal career. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As I graduated from high school and worked my way through college toward a biology degree, HeLa cells were omnipresent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And when I complain about homework—even a little bit—she reminds me how Papi took on extra lawn jobs so she could go to college at night. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You know, if we lived in Europe, college wouldn’t cost much.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

With four other kids to think about, there wasn’t going to be a blank check from my parents for my college tuition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“First baseball as a youth, then track and tennis in college and beyond. But truly, it was his family he loved more than anything else in the world. They were his everything.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We’ve been receiving so much mail from people all across the country, and we have no idea what to do with it all; the donations for our college fund are amazing and quite touching. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Go to any Western college campus and you’ll find that Asian students have a reputation for being in the library long after everyone else has left. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Like, who is going to watch a bunch of trolls getting drunk at clubs and trying to entice college girls to their place under the bridge? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Daisy was my second cousin once removed and I'd known Tom in college. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She opted to earn a degree in education and pursue teaching, the most stable career for a black woman with a college degree. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

These were highly intelligent, able-bodied men who were denied access to stable high-paying jobs, which in turn kept them from being able to buy homes, send their kids to college, or save for retirement. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Even during my second Cambridge year, when I moved into rooms on the R staircase of Clare’s Memorial Court, my boycott of college food continued. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I haven’t seen Hilly with one of those since Johnny broke up with her in college. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We knew beforehand that Miss Whitlaw did not have any money she could lend out, for Robin’s college money was sacred and untouchable even if we were inclined to ask. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might send his sons to college without comment, might wear a vest and white shirt and tie in the daytime of a weekday, might wear gloves and keep his nails clean. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I minored in Spanish in college, sweetheart. I did a semester here. It’s where I met your dad...You know this!” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Soon, his guilt for bringing up college and excitement over getting his mom a gift she didn’t immediately hate had both worn off. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reasons, college just does not feel normal. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Two-thirds of the adults have had four or more years of college and earn more than $100,000 a year, twice the American family average. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But her African friends all had jobs, and college students got jobs all the time with no experience. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If anyone ever did attempt to go to college, it’s because they hoped to get the financial aid money. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But in a way I knew what she meant about me not falling in love with her, because I knew she was going to college. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't need a mug until I started drinking tea or coffee, and that wouldn't be until high school or college. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I think I lost this months check from the college. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought I was destined to go back home after college—but not simply because I loved home but because I could not imagine much else for myself. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“We just saw this episode two weeks ago. Lashonda flunks home ec and gets caught lending Troy’s letter jacket to that college guy she’s been dating on the side.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t—he never told me about college.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In a New York Times poll, 43 percent of them called it essential to success, while 42 percent of college graduates and 32 percent of high school dropouts did. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Things were so hectic that Adam had dropped half his course load and was going to college part-time, and if things kept up at this rate, he was thinking of dropping out altogether. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was something that Woodridge had said in the literature class back at college. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “We can help guide our readers into adulthood like Sherpas on Mount Everest. We give them the truth about sex, the truth about college life, the truth about love.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“What do you think of that, girls? Imagine going to college with your dad. Freaky, huh?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

All the old people agreed that Hiram Wallace was, in his youth, the hope of every island maiden’s heart, but that he had left Rass with his father’s money and blessing to go to college. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I looked up the requirements for English majors at the city college where my mother taught. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was to be in college, at Stanford, that my religious faith would seem to me suddenly pared. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking of, any chance your mom would be into writing me a rec letter for college? The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

We save all for children's college, so they can have easier life. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got more people been in jail in New York than been in college,” Bianca said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mike promised me that if I went to college, I could come back to The Phoenix anytime I wanted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So, I know she’s been gone most of this week looking at colleges with her mom, but have you talked to Lydia since last Friday?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“This job is what pays for my education. And in a few years, after I finish college, I’ll have a career.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw myself living the college life, all I needed was to graduate from high school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A lot of drinking in that family, say Jack Plus, they can’t keep that boy of theirs in college. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He played cow bingo with the same fervor as he played his last college basketball game at Saint Luke’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A main reason she was going there was her failure to take the college boards, a requirement for admission at most four-year schools. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explain that it’s Charlise's last summer before college and they buy it. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Several weeks before the parade, an African American sorority from Howard University asked to march with the college women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Bob goes part-time to the local community college. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But things had changed when Adam moved into the House of Rock and started college, though not for the reasons I’d thought they would. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know that he was the first person in his family who had ever gone to college. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The half comes from a spring-break marriage in Cancun when she was in college. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me ask you another question. You think I got a chance to play college ball?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The guidance counselor put my name and Duke together on the bulletin board outside her office with the other students who were on their way to college. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She was a single mother with six sons, and she planned to put all of them through college using money she made cutting hair and selling chips, candy, and cigarettes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

How was I going to get the clothes for college? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wrestling was, at the time, a premier sport at the school, coached by a Truman grad who had gone on to compete in college. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The young men who go to prison rather than college face a lifetime of closed doors, discrimination, and ostracism. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Forget college—bye-bye, all the other years of my life. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Campus? That what they call it? Well. You wasn’t in no college for—what—ten years now? And you didn't write to nobody. How come you never wrote?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The night before my flight, there was a feast in my college. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He thought of Rick, the white college boy he and James had liked so much. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You still can be. That’s perfect for you. You could go back to school. I know you can catch up on everything, and fast. We can go to college together.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really think I’m college material,” Molly says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“They like how I can add ‘worked with the FBI’ on all my college applications.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

This is what a control freak learns inside the compressed otherworld of college, maybe above all else: There are simply other ways of being. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“He joined the army so he could go to college. Smart kid. There weren’t nothing I wouldn’t do for that boy.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And as a women’s college, Smith focuses on giving its students the sort of encouragement to be independent Luma felt she had been deprived of at home. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

If you are in an Ivy League college and a Young Republican tells you that you got in only because of Affirmative Action, do not whip out your perfect grades from high school. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By the time he was a college senior, he had become the national champion, an honor he would repeat twelve more times over the course of his career. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I swerve around the long wooden tables, where groups of college students are reading textbooks, writing flash cards, typing on their laptops. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She picks up her phone with one hand, a Yale brochure in the other, and snaps some “applying to college” selfies. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Fifi drops out of college and goes off on a church trip to Perú, chaperoned, of course, otherwise we wouldn't have let her go. We don't believe in all this freedom." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I had never had a college admissions interview and couldn’t have been more nervous if this were my own. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even better, Mom’s been so preoccupied with reviewing Lily’s college applications that I think she’s forgotten to be so worried about me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

With my sister out of the house, and with me a year away from college, they didn't need all the space. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I then had a visit from a young college instructor of English—a born Southerner of great breadth of understanding. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the items would be the perfect conversation starter, and I wanted him to know I did cool things like hang out in college towns and go to hemp festivals. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Knocked around for a while, tended bar, took the long route through college, got started late on a career. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was Thanksgiving week, and Lowell Lee was home for the holidays, as was Jennie Marie, an intelligent but rather plain girl who attended a college in Oklahoma. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on her feet all day in the sweltering laundry was an opportunity if the tumbled military uniforms bought new school clothes, if each sock made a down payment on her children’s college educations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was to leave for France on April 14 to go college, but because the thirteenth was New Year’s, Pa let him stay for the celebration. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And once we’re in high school, we can take the trolley by ourselves and meet Phyllis on the way. And then we can go to college together, the three of us.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She shook my hand and welcomed me to the college. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The big push was to find players who might play college ball. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was a college out West in Ohio that took female students—a real college, not a young ladies’ seminary. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

At college I had to take a required course in physics and chemistry. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“My ma’s near as bad. Every move she makes is aimed at saving up a penny for my sister and me to go to college.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She really wants me to go to an HBCU—that’s a historically Black college or university—and I have to keep reminding her I’m not even in high school yet. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I managed to pull them up at the end and mostly got B’s, but I’m still worried about getting into the colleges I want. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

—I never said I wanted to go to college. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say what you like, but you can’t convince me that a jury box of poverty-level Vermonters would have the remotest bit of pity for four college students on trial for murdering one of their neighbors.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She helped me through college and helped me get into graduate school as well; she didn’t pay my way, but if I had an emergency, she would help. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several college students on the other side of the room were talking about a Latin class. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Being popular wasn’t going to get me into college. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Worse, they saw the college president as trading on his skin color to prove a solidarity with the black residents of Edgemont, a solidarity that did not, in fact, exist. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He never talks about college, or anything after this. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

That loss of ground is all the more significant because a college education matters much more now than it once did. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And every day in chapel there was some announcement about qualifying for “V-12,” an officer-training program the Navy had set up in many colleges and universities. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Cal went on excitedly, “If he went away to college and never lived in this town again—” Adam nodded. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“All you college snips are the same. Hard as nails. These weren’t just any black mollies, buddy. We were very close.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

And then James might screw up his face and make his eyes bulge, like Rick, the white college boy who ran the summer program. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn't quite make it to the college. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He lived in a spare bedroom with the family of a friend he’d made during his year in college in Virginia. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sandi was on when a visiting aunt and uncle dropped in for a visit at college early Sunday morning. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The men—it was always only men—were mostly friends of his from college now come to the States on matters of business. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You're graduating from college next year; why don't you cook a meal for a change?” she points out, twisting the cap back onto her bottle of nail polish. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

—Well, a couple of days ago some basketball scouts were here from Ohio State and Michigan State—friends of mine from college—and they were looking for you. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was respected for two reasons: he was a preacher, and he had a college degree. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before the accident, “my future” just meant college. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I had that agenda I’d been assiduously maintaining since freshman year of college, stemming from the neat line of boxes I was meant to check. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The students showed dramatic improvements in their test scores in several subjects, and many more of them graduated from high school and applied to college. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As I ran I thought about Manuelito and the experiences I shared with him and others in Bonetti Ranch; I thought about racial segregation in the South and about Paul’s remark about college. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He gave up his college fund without a second thought, to stand up for his principles. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I assumed it was a college book and wondered if I would be able to read it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Pappachi insisted that a college education was an unnecessary expense for a girl, so Ammu had no choice but to leave Delhi and move with them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's one of the most famous colleges in the world." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He wrote and telephoned dozens of acceptances to invitations to speak, predominantly at colleges and universities—both to expound his philosophies and to earn the $150-$300 honorariums above traveling expenses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night at a college dance, I was talking with a cute boy. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Halfway through her senior year, Courtney has yet to take her SATs, let alone think about college. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I don't want to stay here, I don’t want community college, and I don't want to live with Dad and Serena, even if they are the nicest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In 1940, just 2 percent of all black women earned college degrees, and 60 percent of those women became teachers, mostly in public elementary and high schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was at some point in mid-July that my father began asking me about college. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

‘Yeah, man, I go to a public college, nothing big and fancy—” ‘To, college is college and thass all that maras.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Lourdes takes out scientific texts for him from the college library and he locks himself in his room to read for days at a time. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joan had been a champion horse-jumper at the annual college gymkhana, and I wondered if she had been sleeping in a stable. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

After college, I took a trip around the world. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dawn Celeste tells everyone that she’s a retired social worker and perpetual wanderer, and Luke is a college student on hiatus. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Kira says, “Well, I’m still in college, actually. This is my last year at Portland State.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the limits of his college boys, Hoover had kept on the rolls a handful of other Cowboys, including White’s brother Doc. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then she started working and going to school at the community college. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another, Marilyn Hall, earned some college money at an audition in which she sang “Lot’s Wife,” a challenging, highly emotive song from Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“How I wish I was going to college! You don’t look as if you liked it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was teaching shorthand and typing to a lot of city college girls and wouldn't be home till the middle of the afternoon. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

We talk about our plans for college, books, and our favorite bands. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Some colleges, like Emory University in Atlanta, have climbed fast in the rankings over precisely the same period in which their percentage of low-income students has tumbled. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Many colleges in the South did not accept black students. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

On Thanksgiving day of Terryl’s senior year in college, she recalls that she and Kathie went for a walk on the beach. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I hear from two more colleges— Stanford, which is a no, and UCLA, which is a yes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was immensely proud that he had a daughter in college, and an Ivy League college at that. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jim was home from college, but he had a new girlfriend over in Berwind and had taken the Buick and sped off almost as soon as he deposited his laundry in the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But I want to go to school and college and have a real career when I grow up.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some attended community colleges, while others went to major universities in states that stretched all the way from Massachusetts to Hawaii. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Congratulations. You’re now the president of the junior class. It’ll look good on your college resume, assuming colleges still exist a year from now.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They’re going to get accepted to college and become physical therapists or kindergarten teachers or financial analysts and they still won’t be able to locate Florida on a map. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

You could apply to the college and who knows? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think this college is closed,” Hyacinth said. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was their last date until Christmas because Ben was leaving for college tomorrow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samira was off at college, and my parents worked long hours to keep their struggling luggage business afloat. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I can clearly remember saying to my black college roommate in my freshman year, “Racism is a problem that should end just about the time we graduate.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One day, I’ll be rich. If I were you, I’d start being a lot nicer to me if you want me to pay for the twins’ college.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We did not speak of her again until the following summer, several days before I was to leave for college. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Like he’s already a college professor impressed with the sound of his own voice? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He is a wealthy man. He donates his salary to the college, though he accepts, I think, one dollar a year for tax purposes.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Soojin reminds me of Mustafa, when he was trying to convince Baba last year that being on the basketball team was important to show he was a well-rounded person on his college applications. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,” he still loves to say, as often as possible. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In fact, they say she can probably go to college someday.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

At this rate, what will I have to look forward to in college? Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In her eyes, women went to college just to make themselves more marketable to guys. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mother whispers back, My sons must first go to college. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Gene Nora Stumbough, a flying instructor at the University of Oklahoma, heard about the astronaut testing from Wally Funk at an Oklahoma college aviation gathering. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

They could hang out, date for a couple of years through college and maybe grad school, and then get married. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was a scholarship to the state college for Negroes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We dated for almost two years. Beginning of first year to end of second year of college.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Nobody in my family had ever gone near a college. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

How will 1 do college interviews now, job interviews? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The timing had worked out similarly for my sister when, two years prior, they were able to get a loan to pay for her last year of college. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Well, I thought to myself one day as I walked to Dunbar Junior High for my eighth grade class, at least college classes will be open to us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Peninsula Luggage was floundering, and they could no longer afford our mortgage and my sister's college tuition. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You can definitely go to college,” I assured him. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He spent a lifetime at hard work and never could make enough money to even send my sister and me through college. He’s dead now, so you might as well keep it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The picture was old—I would guess that it’d been taken in the 1960s—and the five were probably college stu-dents or around that age. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When Secretary Riley told my students “everybody deserves a college education,” I interpreted it as a personal challenge to make sure that all the Freedom Writers would go to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh no, Janae! Mama was right. One year at college, and you decide you don’t wanna be in the hood no more?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t believe Tyler would really go to college, that he would ever abandon the mountain to join the Illuminati. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Comparing notes of their experiences at college so far, they discover that they had both taken Psychology 110 the previous spring. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters bawled their eyes out the day she left for college. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But it is probably not a coincidence that elite colleges have not yet turned this sentiment into action. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But after all, Mr. Monroe is a college professor and Mrs. Monroe is a lawyer, so we think of it as a rather special household. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

My best teachers in college and graduate school, years before, had tried to prepare me for this conclusion, I think, when they discussed texts of aristocratic pastoral literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gosling began his experiment by doing a personality workup on eighty college students. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“These college kids are willing to trade Pop Tarts for Snickers. What do you think?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes. So Mrs. Gershom informed us. Father believes that with the college nearby, many visiting parents will welcome such a place." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of the students who come in the Trout wear college scarves. If we knew what the Magdalen one was like...” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You mean what have I been doing for the past year? Philosophy. I want to do my doctorate. Which is why Dad pulled the college funds.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to college. I’m going to have a better life than this. That’s all there is to explain.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Now I would have a police record whenever I went to get a job, or when I tried to go to college. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I said I hadn’t been employed at all, that I’d only been out of college a year but that I liked to think of myself as a professional short-story writer. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Her older children, so tiny when she had first come to Hampton Roads, were now entering college. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But if her father thought she would give up on college, he was wrong. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The application consisted of a single side of a cream-colored sheet, and yet it had taken him longer to fill out than his applications for college. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sees her husband on weekends; he is a professor at a college in Boston. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

People in America don’t care about college degrees or careers from Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We could spend some time together after such a long break, and I could save money for a college that was a better fit for me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would see his daughters, yes, but they knew he was safe now, and that money would be better spent elsewhere—in their college trusts, for example. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Fewer than one hundred graduated with the requirements needed to attend a California state college or university. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on. You can’t even see them from here. Besides, look at this place. This is a real college experience.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon Hispanic-American activists began to complain that there were too few Hispanics in colleges. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why would anyone care if I go to college or not? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wanted to stay at Valley Forge and attend its junior college, which would allow me to go through the early commissioning process, receive my associate’s degree, and become a second lieutenant in the Army. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The other person was Miss Armstrong, who was the only other college graduate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The churches got together though. They gone send both them boys to college.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I hated that in a couple of days she'd be going back to college and I'd be getting ready for school Monday morning without her. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We’re heading to a clean, fun and safe college sorority party. Which is what I told Claire, and it’s actually true.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it takes four years to get a college degree, right?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A millionaire, who wishes to remain anonymous, offered to pay my college tuition. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The other men were doing this brutal work to feed their families while Stuart, a rich kid with rich parents, had college to go back to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

What if I don’t like it at college? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She normally spent her time with the kids who were applying and going to colleges. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t have anything against community college; I just can’t imagine spending another year living at home with Mom. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

By now she should have finished college and moved into a big house on the Hill, making her own way and trying out the newest of the new fur hats, like Ella. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I been gettin’ closer to college, they always be on my back. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the support and involvement of parents, teachers, friends, and an involved, knowledgeable college adviser at her high school. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can barely keep my head up, let alone get good grades so I can get the hell out of here and go to college. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She’d been accepted into a nursing school in San Antonio, Texas, and her parents were doing well enough to pay for their children’s college education in the States. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The college didn't want a farm, so it sold all the surrounding land to a developer who put in roads, sidewalks, and sewers, divided it up into lots, and sold it to builders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since hotels did not accept blacks, Marian usually stayed in guesthouses at the black colleges they visited, while Billy bunked in the men’s dormitory or at the black YMCA. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I got a scholarship so Uhmma doesn’t have to worry about paying for college. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Greasy, sleazy, foul-mouthed, and unwashed, he’ll make a great addition to a state college fraternity. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a voice reflecting doubt, fear, and an unmistakable desire to be loved, I sounded not like a thoughtful college professor but, rather, like a high-strung twelve-year-old girl; someone named Brittany. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They ask where she went to college, what it is her parents do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sure beats being one of those kids at school who don’t yet understand what “college loan” means. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A community college there was holding a college fair, and Blackburn set up a table in a hallway, draping it with the University of Virginia’s blue and orange flag. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Letters and phone calls from him indicated that he was doing well on the practice field, but needed frequent cash infusions to keep his wardrobe up to college standards. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I listened so hard that I nearly differentiated it from the others, and it seemed to be saying, “Finny, give that bone the old college try.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew he had a hard time before college, but he didn’t specify.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

One example is found in studies of college freshman who overestimate the drinking among other freshman. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We did ask some college friends of hers, but they didn’t want to interfere,” said Patti. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was fitting, then, that when he entered the university, he made his place in the college of alchemy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Levanthal wanted to see if he could persuade a group of college seniors at Yale University to get a tetanus shot. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since it took only men at the time, I applied to its sister college, Barnard, and was accepted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d love to talk with you more about your future plans for college. Keep in touch.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’d love to buy a keg for whatever college will take you,” I spat back. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Howard worked at Clovis for four years, each time staffing the field crews with a mix of sunburned locals in boots and jeans and well-tailored Ivy League college students on vacation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Opening up colleges to new kinds of students has generally meant one thing over the last generation: affirmative action. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was to learn later, from Mr. Muhammad’s own sons, that he was envious because he felt unequipped to speak at colleges himself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samira had gone away to college, and we had an extra bedroom in our house, so my parents let her stay with us until she found her own place. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had been getting Cs and Ds, and college never felt like home, anyway. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I stay after school to talk to Mr. Ingman about books and college. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Pat, a vivacious college beauty queen just two months graduated from Virginia State College, was marrying her college sweetheart, a young army corporal named Walter Kane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The math is simple: when a college goes looking for applicants with high SAT scores, it is far more likely to find them among well-off teenagers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Two more years to college, and I already get letters in the mail from all the historically black colleges, not to mention the state schools and even an Ivy. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Coaches, high school and college alike, teachers—even though he was barely a C student—and of course girls, who might as well be invisible for all the game Luke had. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We didn’t see much of each other after the first year and barely at all after college, except for the occasional wedding. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, well. Here’s the thing...I should’ve made you go to school. That was a mistake on my part. I don’t want you not going to college because of me.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes, actually. Right out of college, I did a kind of bad postmodern Chekhov thing, set in the Holocaust era—which is just always a really bad idea—at the Public Theater.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

With my sister away at college, our family of five would never live under the same roof together again. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But he had, and now Cabot Searcy would face his second semester of college alone and without his friend. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, I lost contact with most of the people I knew in college, including my beer-drinking friends and the first woman I ever woke up with in the morning. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The intent is to reflect “the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What about those college scholarships you promised?” said one of the other members of the Midwest team. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in his tiny paper-covered office at the college, leaning back in his chair and chewing the end of a pencil. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like what she imagined a college dormitory to be. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t the purpose of a college degree to get away from the need to work dirty and difficult jobs? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

You have been recommended to us as an outstanding prospective major college student-athlete. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always had some victories to tell about whenever he came home from college. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was yellow slickers with writing on the back, college pennants, and plus fours. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francis thus never had reason to envy those college fellows whose High Table food was undeniably better than their wives’ drab mixtures of tasteless meat, boiled potatoes, colorless greens, and typical trifles. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

One girl described how she slept on gurneys in hospital emergency rooms at night while attending college during the day. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Jade. You’re a smart girl. Are you really going to pass on a chance to get a scholarship to college?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was the first in my family who asked to leave home when it came time to go to college. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime in 1968, when I was in college, the FBI officially closed and sealed its investigation, charging no one for the murders. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had been working for as long as she could remember: Even when she was in college, raising her two kids on her own. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the rare occasions I run into one of my old friends who did continue on to college, I feel both inferior and dismissive. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She pointed her finger around the class and asked, “Where is she? Oh, there you are. Why don’t you stand up and tell my college students a little more about your experience with homelessness?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was thirty-seven, more efficient than in college, tied to computers and modems and cell phones. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The talk fell to snow skiing, to money, to what it had been like when they had gone to college, to anything but the coin toss. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the interim, despite my lack of college, my reading skills had allowed me to get better jobs. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Thoughts like never having enough money to move away or not getting into college. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But after completing her community college requirements, Mary attempted the short but improbable journey from the neighborhood to the campus. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I read a book about that in college,” she said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The following year, with the aid of a cane, he returned to college and graduated, and without telling his parents he applied to continue his engineering studies abroad. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My plans, maybe just my dreams really, had been to go to college, and to write like James Baldwin. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I was kind of surprised when she suggested we take the bus across town to see David at college one evening. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1917, just before Christmas, she was invited to take part in a gala concert at the Georgia State Industrial College, a black college in Savannah. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Five of those guillotines—borrowed from the public library, the community college, plus our own elementary and high schools—slice construction paper with machine-like efficiency. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Dorothy’s house on South Main sat down the street from the college campus. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"Factitious!" my creative writing professor at college scrawled on a story of mine called "The Big Weekend." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I read somewhere how American colleges used to ask applicants for their mother’s surnames, to make sure they weren’t Jewish because they wouldn’t admit Jewish people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If Reb Saunders even once heard of Danny being anywhere in my presence, he would remove him immediately from the college and send him to an out-of-town yeshiva for his rabbinic ordination. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

For despite hostility and injustice, Jackie Robinson went to college, excelled in all sports, served his country in war. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

You can’t act like high school Harry and score big with college girls.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nick guessed she would play linebacker on a football team, because that’s what his dad had played in college. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the fall, just as Adam was getting used to college life, things suddenly started heating up with Shooting Star. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Allen finished his two years of college, the army quickly reclassified him I-A, available for military service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s starting to sink in that she’s about to have two “baby girls” in college. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sonny’s more obsessed with this college stuff than Jay is. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In this parallel universe where my father never got out of the mines and I never got through college, I am “baby,” “honey,” “blondie,” and, most commonly, “girl.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some said the college was set afire by cowboys who disliked being told by the Methodists that they could not drink, particularly in a place that cried out daily for alcohol. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had originally been purchased by a fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge—its binding bears the college badge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like most of the Ivy League universities, Brown was founded by Protestant ministers as an expressly Christian college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Many private colleges didn't admit women until the 1970s. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now I can’t wait to start college because there are all types of people who are just like me—different and weird. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Unlike where I live now, they do not apply for the same few spots in competitive colleges. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I said, “Well, I think he said that college sports puts a lot of pressure on the students who do them.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Francis’s apartment was in an ugly 1970s building owned by the college. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He is rumpled from the car drive, handsome in his college cable-knit sweater. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She writes about her two jobs, one at a community college and one at a pharmacy, or drugstore, as they call it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

This explains almost everything—her faraway look, the hotel key, the underwear, the reason she never graduated from community college. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She had five kids at home and seven who were away at college. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is dating one of those cheerleader girls who does flips during college football games. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

My smile didn't waver when we met her college roommate and helped set up her dorm room. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Immediately, he looked up his old classmate Mundo, who comes from one of those old wealthy families who send their kids to the States to prep school, and the boys on to college. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Always tired, she declined invitations from her one or two college girlfriends, to have lunch or shop in Manhattan. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He once told me that he hoped I’d go into the business world with him when I finished college. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He has not learned to be a responsible member of society. For this reason, I am canceling Wendell’s acceptance to attend your college in the fall semester.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I moved down the wall to see some of the college clippings. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He seemed happier than ever, and I wasn’t sure if it was because of his job at the college, our new lives in Arizona, or just being away from Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’ll get the money for rent somehow, I’ll catch up in my classes and I’m even going to make time to go with everyone on a college tour with Ms. Gruwell. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The collection of tables and chairs had been rearranged into a basic U shape around the room, and multiple colleges had set up their displays on them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Many of them tutored kids in math and science, something that Mary had done since graduating from college. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

You were the one who said I wanted to go to college. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benito, it was explained, was away at college and Matt would meet him another day. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For a guy like me, with no college, it’s become pretty bleak out there,” said Martinelli, who is fifty years old and deals with life’s curves with a resigned shrug. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In a few years, I was not only penning columns, I was writing sports books, doing radio shows, and appearing regularly on TV, spouting my opinions on rich football players and hypocritical college sports programs. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of us planned to go to college. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But don’t you want to go to college too?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom,” I whisper as we pick up our cardboard trays and get in line, “are all the girls in college this tall?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My photo exhibit began traveling to colleges around New York, mainly through word of mouth. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Getting good grades and being accepted to a respectable four-year college topped my priority list. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My sister asked nervous questions about what college is “really” like and would she put on the “freshman fifteen”? I don’t know what this is, but I’m guessing it means you get fatter. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But soon Ahmad left college and enrolled in a naval officer’s training academy. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He soon realized that his fellow students had received better preparation for college, though he was determined to surpass them. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“How about you, Beej? You want to play ball in college?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She could only imagine what she’d be feeling the day before next school year—freshman year of college. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He was putting himself through college by working at anything and everything that came his way—mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, sweeping floors. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And now, having waged this war for decades, we claim some blacks “support” mass incarceration, as though they would rather have their young men warehoused in prison than going off to college. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They met in elementary school but didn't start dating until college. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Nancy and I planned to go to college together. We were going to be roommates. I think about it sometimes. Suddenly, when I’m very happy, I think of all the plans we made.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay them out on the table one by one: change, quiet, money, college, job, space, family, home. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Take it to college so you can remember how to be brave. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t saved much, but she figured if he started out at community college, he could transfer to a state school. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

So now we were walking in the grove behind the college, down by the scrubby little pine forest at the base of the mountains, with one of them on either side of me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I was a college student, I had a job working as a musician in a black church in a poor section of West Philadelphia. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I felt the warm tug of the past and the melancholy of absence—all of it a little jarring, accustomed as I was to the hermetic and youthful world of college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think he went back to college?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Ocean told me he didn’t need a scholarship. He said that you had money set aside for him, for college.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

If I took the responsible route and told my parents the truth, my sister would never speak to me again, and I'd never get to party with her in college. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

All I could think about was the guys back home, guys I played with, guys who didn't make it to college, or who did but struggled to make rent while there. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The college had been founded in 1596 by Sir Thomas Gresham, a financial adviser to Queen Elizabeth, as the first seat of advanced learning in England outside Oxford and Cambridge. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Run by the Jesuits, it had a reputation for helping immigrant and working- class kids through the hurdles of college. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyler has one sibling, an older brother studying music at Bloomsburg University, one of the Pennsylvania state colleges that attract Truman students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But Hitler’s superior Aryan-race theories were shattered by a young African-American college student named Jesse Owens, who won an unprecedented four gold medals in track events. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Claudia had a longtime crush on a guy named Connor, pining for him through most of high school and at the start of college. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

What advice would you give me for next year when I’m at college and I don’t have you around? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too, the agent was an excellent bow hunter; and he sometimes went with an old college friend—the Milagro real estate agent Bud Gleason—varmint calling. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt typical of the dismissive behavior some officers with college degrees had toward enlisted men like him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s not for sending the children to college. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I broke away from the college guide only for lunch. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Do we really need to be putting him through medical college?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The teachers taught us about how to apply for college admission and financial aid. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was easier to go to college in the state where you had attended high school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until years later that Ivy realized Taryn’s dad had been a swimmer in college and had taught her the names of all the swimming strokes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Why should I give up this job to go to college?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Qualified teachers were so scarce in McDowell County that two of the teachers I’d have at Welch High School had never been to college. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said I shouldn’t even be in college, that I should be made to finish high school first. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was like a thing with her, picking out what college she wanted to go to and seeing how they did in football games like that. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

That sounded a lot worse than missing out on college. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She and Dad fell in love as college students, working at the performing-arts camp. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

If it would have made more sense for Hanako to just take over the restaurant rather than going to college, then Papa would have decided on that instead. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her head ached from filling out college and scholarship applications, revising her admission essay, and working on a lengthy blog post critiquing the designs shown at Paris Fashion Week. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I’d been hearing the same line for months—ever since I’d dodged and avoided the hockey recruiters and thrown away my chances for a scholarship to college. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope that was a monster I just killed. I was a Shakespearian actor in college! Picked up a little swordplay!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She had made up her face in a style she thought of as college girl. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Two people, actually. One friend from high school and one from college.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I knew my hectic schedule wasn’t going to last forever, and playing volleyball had its purpose in my plans to get into college just as much as fencing did. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I knew that none of them was going to college. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, when I asked Mother if I could go to the Baptist college library with a friend, I wouldn’t be telling a lie—at least, not altogether. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Scoob takes that out, he uncovers enough shiny, sparkly, glittery stuff to surely pay for college, buy him a car, and maybe get him a decent-sized house, too. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“She’s a smart girl. She’s capable of so much. I just wish she understood how important it is to go to college. That she can strive to be something more than—more than...” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Like Virginia, a handful of other colleges are not only increasing financial aid but also promising to give weight to economic class in granting admissions. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I was Kristina Houck: Homecoming Court, Unity Valley girl. I had a reputation. I had status. I had a future. Recommendations to the best colleges. Connections. People,” she says. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She took out her camp necklace, strung with her dad’s college ring and a colorful clay bead for each year at Camp Half-Blood. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the past few years, stereos have begun disappearing from college dorms as students attach speakers to their computers and play their MP3s. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The son of an architect and an artist, he worked his way through college, driving an ice-cream truck and upholstering theater seats. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

So I say, “I have no interest in either of those boys, Madrina. I’m going to college and getting a job—I don’t need an investor to take care of me.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“And how could they look after a baby, anyway? All those colleges are full of old men. They wouldn’t know what to do.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I went away to college—Berkeley in the sixties—and I studied, and I marched to change the world, but I did not turn into a boy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daria was a strong fencer who had just missed a chance to compete in the 2008 Olympics but who had done really well on the college circuit, competing for Columbia University. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was also their voices echoing the same words of my mother that made me enter and complete college. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents never once spoke of the stress of having to pay for college, but I knew enough to appreciate that it was there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And what if the college we will be going to found out? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You went to college and your roommate killed himself on Christmas Day.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I want to take college classes online. I mean...well, I’ve been taking them for 2 semesters already, but under Nana’s name. For fun.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’d already laid off the books, already missed the first of the college entrance tests, already didn’t care. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At the other end of the spectrum are community colleges, the two-year institutions that are intended to be feeders for four-year colleges. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even my technique had been different; no one who had known me at college would have recognized the speech. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So check it out, Sapito tells me you go to college. That true?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

With his criminal record struck off, he could apply to medical college when the war was over, or even go for a commission now in the Medical Corps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That evening, Hannah didn’t go into her college for dinner as usual. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In a country where nearly half live on $1 or less a day, kids from poor neighborhoods almost never go to college. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had spent the years after college traveling around Asia, Latin America. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, one dull summer before I left for college, a friend and I secretly followed her. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The counselor had recently tried to redirect him from his focus on English to more of a science and math orientation so he could take something practical, like engineering, in college. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“There are college scouts from four different colleges in the stands tonight. Four colleges! You gotta gun it up tonight, boy. Those guys are looking for a scorer.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an act of discipline, a sign of the change that was coming over me and which would return me to college a more experienced man. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They give me compliments and ask me what school I go to, what colleges I am interested in, what I like about Woman to Woman. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her four years of secret study had prepared her, at the end of college, to escape as far as possible. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In a more affluent community, with students gunning for admissions to selective colleges, parents might not be so happy for their children to take one of these classes, let alone four of them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As I started to brainstorm how to get the most scholarship money for college, I again paged through my catalogs and I noticed something I hadn’t noticed before. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Next to going to the 2016 Summer Games in Rio, doing college gymnastics was my most heartfelt dream. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Women could not attend college; higher education was considered unnecessary for women, who were expected to manage the home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ten years after trading college for the warehouse, Blevins, who is twenty-nine, spends his days at the same supermarket company. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I heard that the sport was played in some of the black colleges throughout the country. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In college and graduate school, I was registered as an ‘English major.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Penny, she wanted to graduate high school with top honors and go to college to pursue politics and architecture and music history. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Ah, it’s no big deal. People are super excited to include this in their college apps, too. It’s so different.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I shudder with the same left- behind feeling I’ve had since I graduated from college, three months ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were little cracks in the parental college resolve last night and I know what Hina would advise, so I try to channel her patience and understanding of my parents’ anxieties. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, the same criticism could be leveled against America’s fully accredited four-year colleges. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And what about the whole fraternity/sorority thing? People actually think joining one of those is the only way to go through college.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was not just an engine room; I knew, for I had been in several, the last at college. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beats going to college just to please your parents, which is probably what half the kids in school are about to do anyway. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I figured I couldn’t afford college, I just didn’t want to be in Harlem anymore. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the Library Olympians were thrilled to hear that they’d be picking up an all-expenses-paid college scholarship even without winning the most medals. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was no twelfth grade—students got a diploma and could go to college when they finished eleventh. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thinking about that, about her going to college and about what Mr. Tate was saying about my grades and everything, was part of who I was. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole world is going crazy,” my father said, “and no place is crazier than college. You’ll stay at your job and be safe.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

This in itself is a change from the days when “college boy” was an insult in many working-class neighborhoods. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was a bit surprised at this collective openness of demeanor—neither stares nor disapproving looks—until it occurred to me that these people probably didn’t realize we were from the college. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A lot of the college people and suburbanites believe it is the ecological thing to do. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But I didn’t know where I was going to go or what I was going to do. I didn’t really do that well in school, and well, college just wasn’t in the cards.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I got dreams—go to college, move my family away from here, be rich and famous, maybe own a hardware store. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went with him to college and university lectures, to radio and television stations for his broadcasts, and to public appearances in a variety of situations and locations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Gruwell took some of her students from Wilson to her college diversity seminar at National University. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The students and friends he’d hung out with in Korea cared mostly about Korean nationalism or what college they were going to—preferably in the United States—and what degree they would earn. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Of course now, neither of my boys will be going to college. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He applied there, he said, out of a sense of “nonconformity” and despite his mother’s preference that he attend a Christian college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s never gonna visit me at college or be my best man, you know?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

About a month before the “Farce on Washington,” the New York Times reported me, according to its poll conducted on college and university campuses, as “the second most sought after’ ’ speaker at colleges and universities. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were crowds in the domes at night, spraying Gatorade from hoses, and all these college guys without shirts lifting their arms. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Malcolm X too many times exhilarated in after-lecture give-and-take with predominantly white student bodies at colleges and universities to ever believe that he nurtured at his core any blanket white-hatied. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A quick-witted and intelligent kid, he’d been nicknamed “the Professor” and set his sights early on the idea of someday going to college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“If Eddie wins,” Mom said seriously, “he’ll put some money away for college. The rest will be his money to do with what he wishes.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

All these idiots are caught up in their stupid sports or their college choices. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“All students are encouraged to participate. I’m sure you’ll make us proud. The winner will get four tickets to Six Flags and a big check for college savings.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I had a brother who looked out for me all through college. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The more places I represented Mr. Muhammad on television and radio, and at colleges and elsewhere, the more letters came from people who had heard me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean?” the college kid asked. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

To his and Odile’s dismay, their companions were college dons contentedly talking about the burdensome administrative problems with which they were so sadly afflicted. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got the key to mine, but I’m not allowed to try it. Hang college!” muttered Laurie with an impatient sigh. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no computers in my high school, and the first two times I attempted college, people were still counting on their fingers and removing their shoes when the numbers got above ten. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Frank, a graduate from a black college and a commercial artiste-volunteered to help me with arithmetic, in which I had received my lowest mark. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

"College? She doesn't have the marks for college. I still think she should pursue a profession before we arrange her marriage, but I'm starting to lose hope." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The expectation from my parents and my teachers alike was that college would be a given for me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Why so many low-income students fall from the college ranks is a question without a simple answer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The way one is good for advice about choosing the right college and another is good for advice about choosing the right shade of makeup to complement your complexion. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“So I was talking to my guidance counselor about college and how I need some extracurricular activities,” he says while loading dishes into the washer. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The day after graduation I went right back into school at the local community college. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom's biggest regret in life was that she never went to college. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Most of the guys he hung with went away to college. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

When I was majoring in Asian-American studies, I took only one relevant course, in theater set design, for a college production of Madama Butterfly. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The destinations were harmless, really, like the farming cooperative upstate, where her college roommate made soft cheeses for the city street markets. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter, Chapter Eleven had returned to college. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Those with academic inclinations took extra classes with the head teacher in their teenage years and with luck made it into teachers’ college. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Above, facing the counter, a blonde, sun-burned college girl smiled down, inviting all and sundry to drink a coke. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He joined a literary society and the editorial board of the college magazine. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, by the way, I have to cancel this week’s Friday movie night. Too busy with college and blog stuff.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to college. I wish I could go now. Everybody is laughing at us. I want to get out of town.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m serious. These girls used to think it was no big deal to down a few drinks at the pagoda with a college dropout, too.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘If it is a college, would it help knowing it?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its college faculty was supposed to be excellent, and its rabbinic faculty consisted of some of the greatest Talmudists in the United States. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He’d been accepted into five great colleges but ended up not going to any of them because his parents couldn’t afford the tuition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In their city of New Rome, veterans of the legion could settle down safely, go to college, get married, even have kids. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On one college break he returned home wearing a Lacoste shirt, telling the Warden that he couldn’t wear clothes that weren’t “preppy.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The Welch Daily News had stories all the time about Welch students going off to college and winning honors. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Buddy Willard and the other college boys I knew were usually too poor to buy hard liquor or they scorned drinking altogether. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s from a play he wrote in college—Hamlet in Fresno. I directed it.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“So, are you still going on your college tour, or is that kind of moot now?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Some things had gone: the Master’s valuable collection of silver had been looted; some college servants had vanished. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s been to college. Once I seen a dame in a fur coat go in there. Never did see her come out. It was two o’clock the last I looked—and that church music goin’. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good, then you won’t mind that the game is being taped, and that twelve colleges called and asked for copies of the tape,” Goldy said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They met in college up North, and somehow Rita convinced him to move to Mississippi. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now she expects him to pay for college when he has a sole-proprietor business and Kate’s a receptionist at the car parts place. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I would enroll in junior college classes in the fall, I told Baba the day after graduation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She traveled to Tennessee, where she gave a week of concerts at black churches and colleges. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

We spent our time, significantly, between the three- block section on Auburn Street where Negro financing and industry controls some eighty million dollars, and the section of the six Negro colleges. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or even, “Tanks are rolling by outside, but Seven’s been accepted into six colleges so far. #HeIsGoingPlaces.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“But why can’t I go to college here and then open up a restaurant?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were grouped by occupation and wore identifying clothing—doctors, nurses, farmers, pharmacists, housemakers, actresses, librarians, college students in academic gowns. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I needed to find his military discharge papers, which would provide for me some benefits in the domain of college tuition. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard that you’re smarter than Einstein. That you’ve already graduated from college. And that you can move stuff with your mind.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I meet Mr. Ingman after school every Thursday so he can help me prepare for the ACTs and apply to colleges. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I know that my decision to go to college will affect my sisters’ decisions and they will not be as afraid as I was of traveling this road. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’d been invited to attend a special three-week summer orientation program, meant to close a “preparation gap,” giving certain incoming freshmen extra time and help settling into college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I knew I hadn’t explained my feelings when I had fled from college, but I didn't know how to tell her about the flashbacks and my failing grades. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Other eastern colleges soon launched rowing programs, and many of them began to compete against one another in head-to-head regattas. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Brick was right about that much—applying to college isn't cheap, let alone actually going. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

You didn’t need a college degree to become an Ally. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My father wants me to go to Yale, or maybe Princeton, but I swear, I wouldn't go to one of those Ivy League colleges, if I was dying, for God's sake. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

‘And I’ve never been to college,’ she’d say, smiling, when her children asked her to spell words they were too lazy to look up in a dictionary. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our trip to Washington and Riley’s speech made the kids feel almost anything was possible, but the idea of going to college is completely foreign for a lot of my students. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But my counselor says I have to be well-rounded to get into a good college. Good grades aren’t everything.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, during my first Cambridge year, when I lived on Tennis Court Road with the Kendrews, I saw virtually nothing of college life. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But a year or so later, when Samira was in college, I reluctantly agreed to keep her most severe act of rebellion to myself. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The following day she tries to teach me how to make sofrito, and the day after that, I go with her to some social justice thing at Breanna’s college. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t send me to my room or threaten to ground me until I go to college. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had a lot to lose: she was a good student with dreams of college and a career. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

But Mom watches the video that shows people actually talking and cracking jokes and even going to college by using that machine. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I can use it to get her back to Orlando, and she can get a summer job and live in an apartment till college starts, and at least we’ll have the summer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then Mom tells me Taro went to stay with one of his college friends for the rest of the summer. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Still, my parents held fast to the idea that he should keep all options open, aiming to get himself into the best college possible. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But, Ms. G recognized our fears and planned a field trip to visit different colleges. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And I wonder if it’s because Jamie came into my life right when she was leaving for college. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s got a boatload of colleges writing him letters, asking him to consider their university. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Hard times. He bought this brownstone a few months before your family moved in. He used to live a couple blocks away, right by the college. He worked there.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They both had college degrees and knew no one in the country and spoke little English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But even if I get all these scholarships, I won’t be able to go to college. My family needs me.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Enrolling in college was a luxury she couldn't afford. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to give up college,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Estha finished school with mediocre results, but refused to go to college. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about to finish college and assumed he’d be drafted into the army as soon as he graduated. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The community college is always looking for instructors.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“More like college,” Chet added, loud enough so only his dad could hear. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I worked for the college radio station. I used to get all kinds of free records. And if I liked a girl, I used to dedicate songs to her.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Paul had planned to march with the college women, so she was wearing her black academic gown. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dicey sat on a bench near her family’s hiding place and looked across the park to a long wall of college dormitories. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my father who became angry while watching on television some woman at the Miss America contest tell the announcer that she was going to college. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it happened, J. T. was a college graduate himself, a business major. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m off,” she said, “to Ohio. There is a college there that will take a woman just like a man.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the booth for Laney College, the community college that sat south of Lake Merritt. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In doing so, he left behind two children, a wife who had no college degree or work experience, and a mortgage. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I need my life,” she explained,“which is good and which is here. Anyway, I might go to the community college in Bradford to shut Hollis up, but that's it.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Ten years later, Nick Allen was a junior in college. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cheryl Moody is a public school girl who works in a dreary mall job to earn money for college. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Even the rabbinic faculty was split, most of the rabbis voicing their hope for a Jewish state, some of them opposing it, while all of the college faculty seemed to be for it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Why, yes, sir. I suppose I do . . ." "Then forget about returning to the college. Go somewhere else . . ." "You mean leave?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s covered all next year’s work. He’s going to take examinations for college and save a year. And Kilkenny is confident that he will pass. Now, what do you think of that?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two months later, when I was back at college, our relationship hit a wall. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

April Fool’s Day is when most seniors get their acceptance or rejection letters from college. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was there, every rabbi, student, and college teacher. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The author was Jo Ann Robinson, who had been up all night with two student assistants at Alabama State, feverishly running the flyers off on the college’s mimeograph machine and bundling them into packages. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“If playing football can get you to college, if playing football can get you an education, then play football,” Hanson told him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can go back to college any time you want, Gerry.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“But both our daughters are going to college out of state, so I think she's got that all wrong.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Come fall, Toby would follow Luke to college. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was a former Columbia oarsman himself, he said, and after watching their recent exploits he had decided to send his son west for college so he too might become a great crewman. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Played in college too, until I hurt my knee. I used to be able to dunk.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the album open to photos of her in America: her college graduation, her bridal shower, her citizenship ceremony. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A sign to the left read main office, and a corkboard next to it listed the graduating seniors’ college destinations: Yale, Penn, Harvard, Brown, Williams, Princeton, Swarthmore, Dartmouth, Stanford. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They all mourned Rocky that way, by slipping, lapsing into the plans he had for college and for his football career. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Forget baseball or swimming at the public pool, which was just an excuse to stare at the college girls who spent their summers guarding from those tall towers. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

No matter what I said to Heather and her entourage, they would still walk away thinking it was my race and not my high school record that got me into college. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Bob, my partner, went there and he says it’s the best school in the city. You know where you want to go to college?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was studying to be a college teacher and he always had a lot of work to do in the evenings. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only question was which highly ranked college you would attend. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That meant that she, sixteen and a half years old, could now enter college with half a year’s freshman credits behind her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of all the hype surrounding school desegregation, I was beginning to think seriously about where I wanted to go to college myself within the next few years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"You have little to learn down there. However, college training is not a bad thing—although you'll have to forget most of it. Did you study economics?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, not trouble. I just wanted to talk to you. Cal, I don’t want to go on at college.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom says that it’s like if Margo went to college early.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But without college, how will I learn anything of any account to teach others? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or if nobody was watching me, I’d sneak up into the loft and look at the old almanacs Sam brought back from college sometimes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He has finished his first year of college and earned A’s in all of his courses.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They rented a hotel room in Santa Cruz, and my sister drove down from college to spend the weekend there with me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

To help level the playing field, I plan to take them on college tours and bring in specialists who can help them fill out financial aid forms and prepare for those dreaded standardized tests. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“What? Isn’t it possible I want what you have? I’m ready for a real life. Being a college athlete eats up all of your time and energy.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Good, me too. God, I’m so ready for this. I’m so ready for college.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

On the weekends, they gave big parties for their college friends. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It is at least a fair assumption,” a widely used college forestry textbook remarked in 1973, "that no habitual or systematic burning was carried out by Indians.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I read someplace in the paper where they got plenty communiss at college.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Which college did you say you went to?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He dropped out of college and parked himself permanently by one of the windows of the flat, looking blankly out at the world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Papi did two years at a community college and is proud of his associates degree. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Jordan College was the grandest and richest of all the colleges in Oxford. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The counsellor suggested that I plan on going to my father’s college, because they had to let me in. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

When I was a senior in high school, consequendy, I did not hesitate to apply to secular colleges. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s a year older than me, and between her and Janae, I know all about what to expect for applying to college. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Reb Saunders had stopped inserting deliberate errors into his Shabbat evening talks the week we had entered college, but the memory of it still rankled. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the meantime he had gotten married, and right after his first child, Adrian, was born, he decided to go to college fulltime to get a degree. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll finish high school, go to college, get my law degree, and be out of here. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christine, however, decided to follow in the family tradition of attending a black college, but she had long known that she didn’t want to walk a path previously worn by her older sisters and brothers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He wore a pipe in his face and probably asked you what college you went to. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Ginika said you left Nigeria because college professors are always on strike there?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She thought it was preposterous, that she, a girl of fourteen, with nothing but a grade school education, would be considered eligible to take over the work of a thirty-year-old college graduate like Miss Armstrong. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While college students marched against the war, Calliope protested against hair clippers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, Fullbrook might as well have been a college campus. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The experience had confirmed to Lydia that they’d make good roommates at NYU, which both of them had chosen as their top pick for college. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I started college at nearby UC Berkeley, where my life was a mixture of antiwar rallies and marches and beginning French and rhetoric classes. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

If her community- college classes were finished early, she would pick me up before her mother got home from the nail salon in Tampa. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When I stopped to consider what this position really was about, I realized it fit perfectly with my aspirations since college. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A thin man who looks young enough to be a college student leans against a desk talking in a loud, nasal voice. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was already in college, learning how to make money off money. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Compared to getting skewered with a pilum, college sounded pretty good. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The last of their three children was finishing college, and they had retired their mortgage. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In addition to celebrating the year's graduates, the school, like many colleges, recognizes special people by awarding them with honorary doctorates. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

After corresponding with the heads of several colleges, he decided to attend Williams College, a small, all-male school in the hills of northwestern Massachusetts. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I had an English friend at college who really went for colored girls.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In college chapels I would listen to folk singing and see plain altars draped with bright applique banners: JOY! Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was busy, much of my time spent practicing or playing in a string quartet or taking theory classes at the community college. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

These kinds of antics were not what I expected from my college experience. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The college kid placed the tub back in the crate. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I will graduate from high school, go to college, get married, have kids. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention the fact that I’m being watched by a bunch of actual musicians in an actual college band. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Start writing Dill a letter of recommendation for college.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“We’re volunteering with some of my students to help clean up the highway adopted by the college,” she says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

"You have little to learn down there. However, college training is not a bad thing—although you'll have to forget most of it. Did you study economics?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’ll be helping in the science lab, as usual, and working on all his college applications in between. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Under MacLean’s direction, the college also established a US naval training school, effectively turning the campus into an active military base. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Officials of state-supported black colleges had to be more circumspect since they depended upon the funding provided by the all-white state legislature. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In reality there had been no one, so that toward the end of college, as graduation loomed, she was convinced in her bones that there would be no one at all. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They helped him stabilize his life and find his way back to college. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Incidentally, Newsweek once stated that the chances of a college- educated single woman over thirty-five getting married were smaller than her chances of being killed by a terrorist. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing like this at the college museum—or anywhere else that I had ever been. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After getting three college degrees and spending some time traveling, she will end up teaching social studies in middle school. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Getting a job is more common, and 39 percent of poor people who are hired rise out of poverty, as against 3 5 percent who get at least a two-year college degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Where are you planning on going to college?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The summer after his freshman year of college, Chris returned to Annandale and worked for his parents’ company, developing computer software. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard that he had been to college and knew more than the principal did. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nicole’s dad had fenced in college, so he was really keen on her checking it out. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He does not worry about who will care for his son while he works and his wife attends community college to become a physical therapist. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In any case those were my convictions, and back in college I had taken a modest stand against the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could say I was in it for the thrill of learning, but mostly I was in it for the thrill of getting into a worthwhile college. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

You’ve had access to WAY more than he has...would it be fair for a college to consider only GPA and test scores in determining who deserves to get in? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“She say she too busy trying to get her boys into college next year. “Any other maids that go to your church? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve seen all of your home games. I used to play basketball in college.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, my application process was Mom saying, “This will look good on your college apps.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Yes, college competition was tough, but domestic competitions meant competing against a much larger field of competitors, fencers of all ages from across the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And he was in front of everyone, so he wrote her a check, which she deposited into her college fund. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

His status made him exempt from the state-mandated competency tests that were a requirement for a high school diploma, and he had never taken college boards. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Yahoo mail page was minimized, next to a page about college basketball. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But, Ignatius, that was the only time you worked since you got out of college, and you was only there for two weeks.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize college sophomores could live like this. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I taught him everything he knows, then he up and flaked out on me, talking about college and turning his back on his homies. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His work was so significant that his teacher at Cambridge, Isaac Barrow, resigned his chair of mathematics in favor of Newton five years after the young student returned to college. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I listen in on the conversations at the tables around me, and pretend I’m a college student, even though I’m a lot older than they are. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Laura told me she had finished school, but then she gave up the college idea. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents wanted to give me a place where I could go to high school and play for a real basketball team and maybe go to college. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“His parents sent him to college, paid for the whole thing, tuition, room, and board.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odessa also became tough and quick-fisted, filled with men who hardly needed a high school diploma, much less a college one, to become roughnecks and tool pushers on an oil rig. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, as Imam Malik hands him the college money, Mustafa leans into the microphone again. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

What it’s like now that her sister’s off at college. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And that money would pay for all the college classes he ever wanted to take. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Most galling to me was when she turned down an opportunity to go to an Ivy League business school after college, deciding that it would be too much work and therefore no fun. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When it was my turn to go off to college, Mother cried her eyes out when Daddy and I pulled away in the truck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As Annabelle pokes through other stuff, she sees a lot of talk about college and next week’s graduation at KeyArena and a summer camping trip. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The exit of professional families ruptured the connection that the less fortunate had to the world of college and middle-class jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For young Walt McCandless—just out of college, married, and with a baby on the way—’Sputnik opened the door to opportunity. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By dawn, Dill was ready to apply for college, complete with admission essay and financial aid documents. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Probably he had said to someone to give something the old college try, and that had finished him; that would probably be grounds for expulsion at Harvard. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, Emery, I heard you’re leaving for college early. You always were so into your academics.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I had spoken with my dad and told him I was putting off college and instead would help with his new company. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Living by the sea in California was what she looked forward to second most in life, after going to college. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the “buddies” that circled my orbit back in college. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm in college, not junior high. Besides, who would come?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When it came time for me and Craig to think about college, we didn’t even consider applying to the University of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“But I thought you said they don’t give college students food stamps unless they have a job.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The ceremony was in the side chapel of a college church; the reception in a small, carnation-wreathed social hall. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people with his job have graduated from college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But to reach great success in the world, James knew he needed a more rigorous college education. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yet these former child soldiers, rescued from their armies, had mostly recovered and been widely embraced at American colleges and universities, where many of them had thrived. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

With a little over a minute on the clock and no time-outs left, Winchell works the sideline brilliantly, the team as precisioned and disciplined as anything in college. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The New York Times Clearly, a degree from a four-year college makes even more difference than it once did. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Like, no shade on football, but I’m kind of more focused on the school part of college. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I had returned to Baltimore two years earlier, after I’d been accepted at Johns Hopkins University to complete my undergraduate degree, which I’d begun in junior college at Valley Forge. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Not long after I left for college, my father became a judge and my parents moved up-county, out of Levittown, across the Route 1 divide—and I didn’t have many occasions to go back. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once a week a dozen chosen kids met at the school library to discuss everything from setting your sights on college to the importance of getting your teeth cleaned. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Moss experienced a flash of a memory then: Esperanza, days earlier, making the college fair about herself. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’d be picking which college I was going to attend later this fall. I’d have taken my SATs, gone to football games and prom, taken chemistry...” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He understood my desire to have at least one year of college where I could focus on something besides fencing and my classes. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Huck Finn: My college roommate had called me that, too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mary told her mother that she was pregnant, at age sixteen, Alma said, “I don’t care! You are going to finish school and go to college.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Pete had won a scholarship to the University of Southern California, where he had become one of the nation’s top ten college milers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The college was located in Brooklyn Heights, another strange section of great Brooklyn for Francie to explore. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if I can get you to do this, maybe I'll be able to get you to do other stuff you're afraid to do, like leave this town and go to college. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There is a small correlation between a woman’s being single and her having gone to college. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was busy applying for colleges, you may have been weighing the pros and cons of going to university versus getting married right away. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mike Armstrong wanted to know what I was doing, and when I explained, he asked me if I had ever thought of going to college. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was sometimes difficult to believe that Dr. Roland was a tenured professor in the Social Science Department of this, a distinguished college. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Not that many people like us actually go to college,” I tell her. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra shook hands as politely as she could, and was then introduced to the other guests, who were, like Dame Hannah, Scholars from other colleges and quite uninteresting. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I recently signed a letter of intent to play baseball at a prestigious college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, that shortened to Big W. By the time he started college at Tuskegee Institute, Enoch had become Big Dub. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After your father came back from college in the States, Mami explained, he got so busy working and raising his own family that he didn’t pay much attention to politics. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell him anything personal except that I’m a senior, and that I think he’s smart for going to community college. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Today is the anniversary of my daddy’s death. He didn’t even see me graduate from college.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It conjures up our college prospects, growing older, getting a real job—our future. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

This was before my time; I joined the college in 1965 at the tail end of the bitterness, when similar disagreements forced another Nobel Prize-winning Master, Sir Nevill Mott, to resign. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stokely knew his way around New York City because he had played college ball there. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I understand that when it comes to campus diversity, the ideal would be to achieve something resembling what’s often shown on college brochures—smiling students working and socializing in neat, ethnically blended groups. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, another college girl came by soon, her pink sari swishing around her heels. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Henry is holidaying in one of the family’s country homes while Alex suffocates under his last week of college. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But even today, with white students continuing to outnumber students of color on college campuses, the burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I walk into my very first vintage store, like the ones Janae described up near her college in Syracuse. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

All I know is that no matter what college I end up at, when I see a minority, I’m gonna wonder if they’re qualified to be there. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She says to Finch, “So what are your college plans?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For most of the first quarter of the century, the eastern colleges thoroughly dominated the regatta. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After Pilar left for college, Lourdes stared at her daughter’s painting every night before she walked home. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were given special opportunities, including weekly trips to a community college to attend an advanced writing workshop or dissect a rat in the biology lab. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ll be...Where did you go to college? London? Paris? You didn’t get that kind of education here! Where did you go?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auma also clearly had inherited the family brains: She’d been raised in Kenya and returned there often, but she’d gone to college in Germany and was still living there, studying for a PhD. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I need to do something before my results come and I go to college in Nairobi,” I told him. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing: I was not disadvantaged like many of the new nonwhite students who were entering college, lacking good early schooling. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was what I wanted to do—go to college and hear people talk about important things. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually we cut into the heart of some college campus ’cause Mong said there might be a bus station somewhere inside. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

How do you feel about me going to college? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe college isn't as hard as my teacher said it is, I thought. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I mean, she had a good reason and everything — it was finals time at college — but it sucks having hospital cake for your birthday. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d probably still get into a good college, end up rich like his parents, and have everything he thought he ever wanted. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

One day I watched the nationally televised funeral; a week later I received invitations to teach at community colleges. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evangelicals are now increasingly likely to be college graduates and in the top income brackets. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was my brother, who wanted to be a father, and Zooey who deserved to finish college. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, they were finishing their first highball in the living room and were talking in the manner peculiar, probably limited, to former college roommates. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Joe was off to college—to that school Leland Stanford had built on his farm near Palo Alto. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Vu Lee refuses to apply to a real college, instead will go to a cooking school in San-fran-cis-co, where his idol once walked. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

At her graduation in 1910, she had the second-highest GPA in her class, and she stated that she had college plans. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Having sat through scores of high school and college games, I recognized a good player when I saw one, and Barack quickly passed the test. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His mind slips to last fall and a writing course at the local community college. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The only other passengers were two college students, boyfriend and girlfriend, wearing matching sweatshirts, their fingers linked, slouched in the back seat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dad had been saving up for a new truck, and Mom had been setting aside money for college. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I want to go to college, even if I don’t know what I’ll be going to college for yet. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The company hired young blacks with college degrees—nearly always the children of an already elite class. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dad stared at her blankly, so she repeated, “What if Erik has no future as the placekicker for some big-time college football team?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a girl in college now who is still a legend around here. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Cheryl went to college despite all of the odds against her and she graduated with honors. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And that’s when June comes charging up to them, her hand on the arm of a girl Alex recognizes—her college roommate, his brain supplies. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was older than many of the space pilgrims, some of whom were just out of college, but she matched them at every turn for enthusiasm and work stamina. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“You know, I’ve decided to go to college in the fall after all.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That Bentley was native born, from an old Massachusetts family, and educated at one of America's top colleges made her seem more threatening; anybody, it seemed, could succumb to the lure of the communist menace. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s possible, in fact, that during our short meeting the college counselor said things to me that might have been positive and helpful, but I recall none of it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As described by William Julius Wilson in his book When Work Disappears, the overwhelming majority of African Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded schools lacking basic resources. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be so many people who just couldn’t forgive Dad for not having a college degree like the Captain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember people are not reading you as entertainment, they’re reading you as cultural commentary. That’s a real responsibility. There are kids writing college essays about your blog,” he said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you are going to college soon? I see you pegging away at your books, no, I mean studying hard.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colleges whose pennants are up—Old Dominion University and others that seem in the realm of the possible—have far lower graduation rates. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

During my college craze in October, I encouraged the students to apply for scholarships. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time I began my senior year in high school, I knew I wanted to go to college and be a musician of some kind. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was exactly what colleges wanted to see on applications. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The wrestling room was empty, save Coach O and Seth, a former college wrestler who came in every week to help Luke work out. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then, just when I’m starting to think that my applications were so bad the colleges didn’t even bother replying, there’s an envelope from Boston University waiting for me on the kitchen table. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“She spends one year at college and she thinks she knows everything.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A junior at North Carolina College, Brown telephoned a few of his college friends and asked what they thought. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had not invited her few friends from college; they were bent on careers, this wasn't their thing. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They chat about New York City, where the girls are going to college. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only when the subject of college applications came up did the conversation stall. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’s getting a degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska not because it’s his passion, but because it was the only in-state college that offered him a scholarship. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“San Francisco’s so expensive. If we lived in Washington, we could find our own place and save up for your college fund.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

After returning from Vietnam, he’d moved to Washington, DC, and enrolled in junior college. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Central Community is the junior college on the edge of Garden Heights. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She’s one of those college football fans who chant “We are...Penn State.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You need to go to college to be a teacher. It’s five years of study beyond high school. It can be expensive.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

All of us rocket boys would go to college, something not likely in pre-Sputnik West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers them all coming to see him off each time, in his first year of college, he would head back to Yale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad threatened me with taking over the family farm, so I decided I’d try some of that college stuff,” explains Baird. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I suppose these smart pills might put a few of our top colleges and universities out of business.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I could go on to college and become a teacher. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I narrated my college life in exacting detail to both my parents like a homesteader dutifully providing dispatches from the frontier. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I last saw him at Sarah’s college graduation four years ago. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He walked around the store, whistling, hands in pockets, stupid safari-style hat on his fat head, and I wondered what it would be like to sit in a college class with him as the professor. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I used the memory technique she had learned from a college professor who’d passed through Garland in the early seventies. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He took Caroline to the college in Salisbury and had her sing for the head of the music department. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most amazing part is that Ms. G and Mr. Tu created a contract stating that whoever has the highest grade point average from now until graduation will win a computer for college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It gave me more time to write out long-winded college essays about how my illness shaped me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She looked quite stunning as she walked across the dining room to the table, not at all unlike a girl on the qui vive appropriate to a big college weekend. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

During those college years, I discovered that a glass or two of wine took the edge off my inner pain and helped me forget. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1830s, private rowing clubs began to appear in various American cities, and by the 1840s a few eastern colleges had assembled crews. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They didn’t even give him a proper lodge to sit in, like a real Oxford college, just a big wooden counter, as if it was a shop. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was nearing the park and walked straight and purposefully while college students going to and from classes ambled or hurried around him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She thought about most of the fears that Queenie had confessed to—ghosts, dark, getting smacked for naughtiness, the college porter. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Beginning in 1960, black high school and college students staged sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters and restaurants in more than a hundred Southern cities. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one photograph, we all had our fishing poles—me and Dad, Uncle Larry, Kevin, and my older cousin Joey, who was away at college now. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He’s carrying a beat-up messenger bag on one shoulder that’s full of books—college books? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s a decent sign that college will be a lot different from Forrestville High,” Lydia said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

One day I came across a newspaper article about the retirement of an English professor at a nearby state college. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a modest high school in the Tidewater city of Portsmouth, not far from John Casteen’s boyhood home, a guidance-office wall filled with college pennants does not include one from rarefied Virginia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Only a handful of college students and dog walkers stepped up to his tip box and dropped in a few bills. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Thus, while the bearer is no longer a member of our scholastic family, it is highly important that his severance with the college be executed as painlessly as possible. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s bad enough that Aaron had to leave, that he is off at college having all kinds of adventures without us. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“That’s what you said to me. Just because you’re smart enough to go to college doesn’t mean you have to make fun of me. I’m sick and tired of everybody laughing at me.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No, your dad built this for you when we were in college. Isn’t it beautiful?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He was more boyish than the others, who looked like they could be in college, or even teachers here rather than students. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn't get a thought together in class, where I was supposed to think and speak—how could I ever say anything coherent at a college party? Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Who was he to think that he could take college courses? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

That would be the icebreaker I needed to talk to Tina and make her aware that I was a cool guy into alternative music who went on weekend concert trips with college students. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the country, the upper middle class so dominates elite universities that high-income students, on average, actually get slightly more financial aid from colleges than low- income students do. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

If there were still colleges, Chris would be sure to find one. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Dad, on the other hand, didn’t really date till college. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know now I have to go to college to do that. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And so are you. You won't go to college in India, so you might as well get used to the American education system now." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jill would garner pledges from colleges and universities to train teachers and professors to better understand the needs of military children. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That’s a whole night of folk dancing, just like this, at colleges all over the country. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And Lily’s the one who is stressing over all her college applications, not me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Shemar's family and friends say he was a good dude, headed to college, active in his youth group...but the cop claims he caught Shemar trying to steal a car. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Then you go to community college and live in Bellmont for another two years, minimum. And maybe you lose your best friend forever. This is most likely a one-shot chance here.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What everybody does. Went to school, high school, college, worked in the summers.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The money would be left to a friend who didn’t have much, a friend who was an orphan and had lost her college scholarship: Julietta West Williams. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, he never makes it to college,” she informed me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I remember Jody, my best and only girlfriend at college in my freshman year, making me scrambled eggs at her house one morning. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of American universities, colleges, and high schools shut down for the week as students staged impassioned protests. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dad says you can go to community college for two years and then transfer, which saves a lot of money in the end. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who sold it to her said that the less expensive ones with bogus numbers wouldn’t get past background checks and college applications. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I dream that I'll be rich one day and be able to go to college and get a job. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

His extracurriculars are chess, yearbook, and euchre club because, as he says, these are things that will make him stand out on college applications. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Many low-income teenagers know few people who have made it through college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Since my education classes at National University have become so popular, I was able to create a special college forum in the fall. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’d been bounced out of two different colleges, suspended for failing to attend class, for not completing the work. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she asks Finch if he’s thought about what he wants to do beyond college, as in with his life, I pay attention because I actually don’t know the answer. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“As a kid,” says Trey, “Mom imagined the token was her dreams. Graduating high school, then college. Becoming a lawyer.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I can’t believe he’s studying economics at one of the best colleges in America. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

While he was in his senior year of college, his father passed away in a house fire, and Justin himself battled and beat a rare form of cancer. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“That’s where people like Mikey Sanders go to do things they shouldn’t be doing. You want to graduate? You want to go to college?” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Darryl’s parents are both at work and his brother is in college, so I have the whole house to myself. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He and Pa have decided he’ll go to a training college for evangelists. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Each bumper sticker has the name of a college on it, which is sort of ironic, because not many of the students here will get to go. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

These elite colleges are so expensive that even many high-income students receive large grants. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In college, she was afraid and scornful when dark-skinned foreign students from countries like Turkey and India found her attractive. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had enjoyed the summer school so much that she wanted to matriculate in the same college that fall but she had no way of raising the more than three hundred dollars required for tuition. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warden of the college, Reverend A. J. Cook, learned of this dispute and called us into his office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked along toward a round building with a great leaden dome, set in a square bounded by honey-colored stone college buildings and a church and wide-crowned trees above high garden walls. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can go to community college, just like your sister.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She had studied international relations in college in Rwanda. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The college diploma that it took her eight years to earn—her husband keeps that in his bedroom drawer, as if it is as much his as hers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

"We have a terrific community college nearby. We'll just sign you up for the few requirements you'll need to attend there, shall we?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A husky guy wearing a maroon college sweatshirt follows after them and tries to persuade them back inside. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I knew students in college then barely able to read, students unable to grasp the function of a sentence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danny always spent his mornings studying Talmud, so I decided that rather than waste the day I would go over to the college library and see if I could find something on experimental psychology. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, George took me to college in January, 1960, to register for my first classes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All fall she’s been worrying about where to apply to college based on where her boyfriend—Derrick—is applying. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I look around, taking in Day Street, wide and tree-lined, with a combination of dilapidated Victorians where college students live, warehouses, the occasional business, and the church. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He would finish high school with more than one year of college work out of the way. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atticus sent her to a women’s college in Georgia; when she finished he said it was high time she started shifting for herself and why didn’t she go to New York or somewhere. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I wondered if the gloom was affecting me, too, but I got the feeling it had more to do with the thin envelopes I kept getting from colleges and scholarship foundations. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“So let’s just review the last twenty-four hours. One, you did not kill yourself. Two, you applied for college. Three, we made out. Those are three, like, really good things.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“But I want to go, Father. And don’t forget, next year I’ll be going to college in Palo Alto. And that’s going away, isn’t it? Please let me go. I’ll work hard.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went to college in California to escape them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And I thought how convenient it would be now I didn't have to announce to everybody at college I had broken off with Buddy and start the boring business of blind dates all over again. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She wants Roli to apply to the best colleges and for every scholarship. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The committee overwhelmingly agreed and even pitched in to the college fund for the winner. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Minority student—that was the label I bore in college at Stanford, then in graduate school at Columbia and Berkeley: a nonwhite reader of Spenser and Milton and Austen. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the shots were fired, the president's aide and his friend since college, Colonel Almon Rockwell, was in the station ready to accompany the Garfields on their summer trip. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

During the school year, David went away to college out of state, which conveniently kept him from being any sort of distraction from my studies. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If mathematics education communicated this playful aspect of the subject, formally at the elementary, secondary, or college level or informally via popular books, I don’t think innumeracy would be as widespread as it is. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even at sixteen, David knows what he wants to do: go to college and study medicine. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My supervisor, I learned, was the eminent Professor Jonathan Steinberg, a former vice-master of a Cambridge college, who was much celebrated for his writings on the Holocaust. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yet because you are like a daughter to us,” she says, “we have decided to pay for your high school and your college. You will come back to live with us. Where you belong.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have an older brother too, David, but he’d just moved out the week before to start college. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the seventh grade, and I wasn’t exactly thinking about college yet. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They kept her printer hot with college, student loan, and financial aid applications. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It had been tough on me not being able to go to college, but things had been tough on him, too. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother constantly reminded him that if he’d finish just one more course, he could graduate from college and have a professional job that paid more. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They weren’t into religion back then. I got them into it. Third year of college, before we moved here, I started volunteering to do PR for a Muslim group doing street advocacy.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The conversations were painless—mostly about how I liked school and what colleges I was applying to. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

For two days, I write all the way through my childhood, my college years, where we sent letters to each other every week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was Uncle Fan, who had been Dad’s friend since college. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother told this one story where the whole team was sitting around the locker room, talking about all the stuff they had to do to get into college football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The professional people she met in college and now Allen had different ways of thinking about spending and saving money and carrying oneself. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“When we go to college, we’re not going to live in a dormitory. We’re going to live on the very top floor of a tall apartment building. I’ll be in graduate school.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bad news, Josh, is that neither Duke nor any other college accepts cheaters. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Both she and Danny come from poor backgrounds and were the first in their families to go to college and accomplish their dreams. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Enrolled in college again, she lived at home to save money for the years of medical school ahead. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

One college scouting service rated him the second best defensive back prospect in the country, and after the season was over Evans became one of three defensive backs named to the Parade All-American team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had taken all the tests that counted—the SAT and the Florida Placement Exam in order to determine state college eligibility. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

So I said we could walk around the block near the Baptist college. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think she gets that, like, we’re having fun, you know? Once I get what I need from her, I’m calling it off. Then it’s college honeys for days, you know what I’m saying?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She had only recently become the first woman in her family with a college degree and, if everything went well this day, would be the first nurse anybody in her family knew personally. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Of course he’d been gone at college before, so I’d got used to the idea of having to do his share of the work and all that. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was already reading at the level of a sophomore in college. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I had told the truth: I needed to go to his college. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am invited very often these days to speak about modern education in college auditoriums and in Holiday Inn ballrooms. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others said it was burned by a contingent of jealous citizens from Midland because the Odessa college was competing with a similar institution that the sister city had built. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it’s always good to have family, and since he’s in college, I’m sure he’s going to be a great source of advice.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In the middle of my junior year, I went to Miss Katona, the high school guidance counselor, to ask for the names of colleges in New York. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wrote Curtis MacDougall, a college professor she knew, and asked him to persuade his students to collect money for the appeal and write Claudette messages of support. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

After all, I always dreamed of going to college and being someone in life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So the college sent a crew to investigate. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I hope you’re a little more clear with this than with the idea to switch college majors.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve been a working-class black student at a fancy mostly white college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The college would reimburse me for my travel expenses if their scholarship offer was accepted. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have to worry ’bout gettin’ into college, because the chance wasn’t there. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the movie, Kimberly Lou played a pretty college cheerleader who got hexed into a witch and started boiling the star football players in a basement cauldron. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re only in eighth grade, but everyone knows she’s already picked out her first three college choices, her probable major and potential minor and the focus of her eventual graduate studies. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“From 10 to 12 and 2 to 4 six days in the week, I shall confine myself to my old medical works and other college studies including stenography, French and German.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There were parts of the college experience I yearned to have, but that were impossible as a college athlete. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

According to the form, we’re visiting the University of Michigan to see what college life is like. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He’s too stoned to talk, and eats like a college student. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He had been a carpenter, janitor, teacher, preacher, college president, lawyer, state senator, and general. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not even in college yet. I just wanted to choose my own escort. He couldn’t even dance.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In Calcutta, before she was married, she was working toward a college degree. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up until Mrs. Henry came along, I’d believed beauty college would be the upper limit of my career. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What kind of job could a guy without a college degree get? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

This was exactly what Wes imagined a college campus would look like. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At the outer reaches of the desk, various photographs: the cast of Twelfth Night on the college lawn, himself as Malvolio, cross-gartered. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had grown up in Idaho during the Great Depression, working summers as a miner to pay for college, and was eager to jump into the ranks of the G-men. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She says they’re going to get married after they both finish college, and he finishes law school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Opposite the fireplace were shelves made of logs split in half and nailed against the wall to hold the books that Shadrach had brought with him from college. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like, never even get my driver's license, or go away to college. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Antonio’s old room, when he heads off to college this fall. Or maybe Luis’s. His room is just full of boxes.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You want to go to college? I’ll send you to college in No folk. Or business school, whatever you want, but you have to stay.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I tried it, we had a boxing club in college—" "You been boxing?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silver- backed brushes were a constant reminder of what her wishes for him were—that he not stop his education at high school, but go on to college and medical school. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down again, worrying about Dr. Bledsoe as the fat man told Mr. Norton of his attending college, then becoming a physician and going to France during the World War. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At almost every college and university in the country there are Muslim student groups. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“It just shows how conventional I was. Everyone in my college generation wanted to go to Paris and write a novel.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear she educated, went through most a college. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mostly she just wanted to see the case wrapped up before Sasha left for college. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You know. I want to go to college.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is a small, typical New England college town, pleasant, sedate, and compact, full of old trees and sunny steeples. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Only 25 percent of all male students attended academic high schools and were expected to go on to college. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was always on to me to learn shorthand after college, so I'd have a practical skill as well as a college degree. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Savannah and I will set up quarterly tax payments and establish a trust to protect your savings and start your college account. And, of course, a retirement plan.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the air was warmish in spite of the fog, with the faint tang of perfume and cologne as college students made their way off campus to various events. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Real,” Emmett says, “was going to college. Mother was on the honor roll. Only the fourth black kid to graduate her school. She became a teacher. Mother said, ‘Do better than me. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

And as for my lunch box going off to college with me someday—well, to tell you the truth, I didn’t see anything so bad about that. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were parties there, but it was mostly college kids. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we only had the money for one and I ask you, how do you choose which of your twin sons should go to college and which should take a job spreading tar? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to finish my college work as quickly as I could, then I would turn to the passage of Talmud we were studying with Rav Gershenson. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They would live in Louisiana for the next two years; when my dad graduated from college, they returned to Iran, where they remained until their escape in 1982. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The thought of going to college scared me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Croteau daughters are the only ones among twelve first cousins who made it to college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Except for Ms. G., I don’t know a single female who’s graduated from high school, let alone gone to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yet, in four years we will be college graduates. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

This is the list of what my life is now: -studying to get my driver's license and studying hard to get into college. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They carried bags filled with books and looked old enough and well-dressed enough to be in college. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The college students made what Dr. Atchley calls a “rational” assessment of the value of the information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I mean, everyone says long-distance relationships are the worst. Like, it’s just an idiotic way to go into your freshman year at college—attached to someone.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said, “that’s only until he flunks out of community college and comes right back!” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Earlier in Malia’s junior year, the two of us had gone to spend a day visiting colleges in New York City, for instance, setting up tours at New York University and Columbia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The room was an old, damp lecture hall buried in the innards of the college; it resembled a dreary accountant’s chamber in a Dickens novel. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The same dynamic benefited the members of that generation when they went off to college. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He was eager for his daughters to go to college—where they could have found suitable husbands—and one, Corinthians, did go. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy at the copy shop thought you were in college. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

But most days after working with Sam, now that college was in sight, I found myself planning my escape. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“It is never too early to figure out how you’re going to pay for college. Don’t automatically assume your parents are going to figure it out for you, either.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Connie Peery was home from college, and she snared me for a quick dance while her boyfriend was sneaking a smoke in the parking lot across the river. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When they emerged in the enormous courtyard, they found the college almost deserted. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As for the learning itself, I figured you didn’t need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was most likely missing some big college party, but I was so glad she was willing to drop everything to make sure a stint in the psych ward wasn't on the horizon for me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“So you plan to go to college, eh?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If only they had made different choices, they’re told sternly, they wouldn’t be sitting in a jail cell; they’d be graduating from college. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The brother and sister from World War Two who wrote all those pamphlets urging other German college students to resist the Nazis?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Two weeks into his work at Grand Coulee, Joe discovered that among the many college boys who had converged on Grand Coulee seeking work that summer there were two from the Washington shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Deborah took her placement tests for school and registered for the classes she’d need to get herself up to tenth-grade level and qualify for the community college classes she wanted to take. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It says RESIDENT, so he’s a college guy. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Since starting college, he shows off even more with tangled words. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“He’s a jerk. I’m proud of my Indian blood. It helps pay my college tuition. Hell, one day it’ll probably help get me a job, if I can’t sell my bronzes.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

This is how I come to know these places, from the last stops of several bachelor parties I went to after college. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don't have to die to collect. They get a thousand dollars each when they're eighteen. It's insurance to get them through college.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day there was a luncheon for honors graduates, and I was seated with the college dean and the director of the honors program. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Here we have two very brilliant young students, each of whom runs into a problem that imperils his college career. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Terupt did a lot of wrestling while growing up, and even into college,” he started to explain. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The college students, by contrast, were willing to wait a bit, and they were prepared to wait more or less time depending on who the text was from. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At times we barely had enough money to pay our rent, I knew that we couldn’t afford college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I encourage the graduating class to move forward in their journey throughout high school and even college...” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had flown across the country to attend the War Resisters’ International Conference, held at a college near Philadelphia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I came back, they all looked at me, and I said, “I’m going to miss you all very much. I hope you have a great time at college.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Anne interrupted to say she planned to leave college anyway and get a job. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

You need to know these words if you want to attend a good college, Nicholas. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

You compete to get into high school, and you compete to get into college. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows that Merryl’s on the team so she can put “team participation” on her college applications next year, and track is the only sport that doesn’t cut. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He would join his family in Ohio a few days later for the funeral and burial, escorted by his closest college friends. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I remember Daddy joking that his hair line was marching backward like a college band at halftime. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m not doing my college tour with Wells.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“So this slip of a girl got herself to college last summer!” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next exit would take me to the college and, with my luck, I’d run right into my father or one of his scheming grad students. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I took the letter to Mr. Penney and thanked him for helping me get into college. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Born in Fort Worth, he had moved to Midland after college and ultimately became the chairman and chief executive officer of the MGF Oil Corporation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, jeez, all of the seniors on our team were going to college. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He became a college dropout, though nongraduate may be the more precise term. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I played with some guys who had played college ball and they were good. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

For others, it might come at the end of college. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two giggling college girls in miniskirts and Ugg boots walked past us, giving us sideways glances and then giggling even harder into their hands, but they didn’t question us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By ‘education’ I mean a four-year college, and by ‘hard work’ I mean nothing involving art. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a young college graduate, she had regarded suffragists with a skeptical eye. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The dialogue includes talk of colleges, elite schools where a couple of the characters have applied. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The young musicians in modern conservatoires, music colleges and universities study in an environment that fosters respect for and engagement with a multitude of genres and traditions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If people asked, I told them I was on my way to California for my freshman year at college. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It means Roli wouldn’t go to college and get even smarter. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Up to now I had felt a wholeness about my work and direction such as I'd never known; not even in my mistaken college days. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father had never gone to college the way Sam had, but still I was pretty sure that he knew more than Sam. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had dropped out of college, in love. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mom had tried to put her foot down about taking a vacation right before exams, but, luckily for me, my brother Muhammad is home for the summer from college. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Most high school and college students today have no recollection of the political and media frenzy surrounding the drug war in the early years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had gone to the junior college in town, Odessa College, but then left after a year to work full-time at Odessa Builder Supply. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each year I delivered several of them, choosing a mix of high school and college ceremonies, focusing on the sorts of schools that normally didn’t land high-profile speakers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z