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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
I went to Syracuse University.
NYU was my comfort zone.
McMaster University, Courtesy of Kevin Mitchell,
You're not going to campus. You're going out to get drunk and play with other ladies' boobies. - Kye
I graduated from the University of Whatever.
I went to Carnegie Mellon.
Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
(Oxford: Clarendon
People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.
I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.
I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
We live in Palo Alto, which has, fortunately, one of the greatest school districts in the country.
We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!
this is a girl who did drugs, who fucked her high school teacher, who chose Berkeley over Stanford. Maybe she really could be one of us.
I'm in Delta Delta Delta, otherwise known as Tri-Delta. I've developed some great friendships, and it's enabled me to have a little bit more of a normal college experience.
I've opened up my school in California in a beautiful facility on Ventura Boulevard. I'm always in heaven when I'm doing my classes.
Seattle, Washington.
Oxford; where you read with your lover, drink with your tutor and sleep with your books
I love Irvine. That's my 'hood. I went to USC and used to come home every weekend. It's in my comfort zone.
I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.
CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.
I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.
The universe is a great university.
I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.
I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.
[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.
Perhaps what we should be asking at cocktail parties is not, Where do you go to school? but, Why did you go to school?
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC OF AMERICA
I remember the university as being very encouraging, especially to experimentation. I think you always get a lot of musicians in any art community, and it seemed like a lot of people I knew worked on films that got made locally.
I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.
I went to college for about a year in California.
Stepford University
one of the leading research university on the PLANET with over THREE MILLION likes on Facebook. That's more than Harvard, and SIX times as many as Stanford.
When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.
Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.
I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.
I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.
Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail in there and just tell your story, and everybody makes a film. It's so important to have that freedom in film school because that's what you're there for: to learn and make a film.
proudly living in a refrigerator-sized apartment with three other students.
There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.
College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.
I schooled in the Boston area.
I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.
What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.
Long-time professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, Chris Alexander
I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it was everything mixed together.
The University of Google is where I got my degree from.
I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.
In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.
Facebook's campus has a lot of creative spaces: an analogue print shop, a candy store. It's a dynamic place and one of the best environments I've been in, period.
Caltech is a very adventurous place. Part of the culture is that we tolerate people doing things that seem impossible, and also synthesizing and borrowing ideas across very kooky and unusual boundaries.
My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist.
At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.
I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.
People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.
Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.
I remember the excitement of finding a great pancake recipe in 'Gourmet.' It felt as if it were mine. And it was Berkeley, of course - everybody cooked together. Cooking is what one did.
I don't live in L.A. I actually live in Atlanta, Georgia. After I graduated from Spelman, I just stayed and never left. And I love it.
In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.
I went to Baltimore School of the Arts, which is known for discovering Tupac and Jada Pinkett-Smith.
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L.A. I could live without.
In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
Tate University - a large football stadium with a college attached.
Now I see a few campuses that are honest
I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.
I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005.
I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.
I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
USC has really developed my love for the cinema.
San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!
I'm a liberal arts junkie.
I went to school at Radnor High School. And I went to a liberal arts college in St. Louis, Missouri, called Lindenwood College.
Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
I love these alternative schools! No one hassles me here over being a crazed, notorious serial killer!
I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.
San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates.
College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles.
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.
When I was 18, I moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA.
Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin
My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.
I have a strong attachment to Harvard.
We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.
I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'
My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.
I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.
San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.
After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William S. Burroughs documentary. I had no idea it would turn into such a big film.
Well ... I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle.