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大学
College
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
我上的大学是堪萨斯大学，在那里我获得了政治学学位。
Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.
无论如何，当我还是个孩子的时候，我尽职尽责地去了悉尼技术美术学院。
When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.
当我上大学的时候，我对时尚不再感兴趣了——我对艺术感兴趣。
For right now, I still believe that college is what's going to make me the happiest girl.
现在，我仍然相信大学会让我成为最幸福的女孩。
First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
首先，我去索邦大学学习特许经营权，但我也开始学习法律。
I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.
我一直想有自己的专辑录制和发行之前，我高中毕业。
I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
直到大学毕业，我才真正下定决心要成为一名宇航员。
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.
我经历过的最好的教学是在埃克塞特。耶鲁大学在那之后明显令人失望。
One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
上一所小大学的好处之一就是你可以进入任何领域。
Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.
不是每个人都需要上大学;他们可以直接出去工作。
It ended up taking eight years to finish college because I got deployed and went overseas.
最后我花了八年时间完成大学学业，因为我被派往国外了。
My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.
我的中小学教育是由高地公园公立学校系统提供的。
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In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
在大学里，你学习如何学习。四年的时间花在这上面并不多。
Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.
我没有上大学，而是把时间花在学习如何成为一名更好的音乐家上。
I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.
我小时候喜欢演戏，后来上了大学。但那是我最后一次演戏。我一直很喜欢。但我的兴趣更多的是着眼于整体，而不是被整体的某一部分完全吞没。
My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.
我的背景是戏剧。我在大学主修戏剧。
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
大学应该是一个充满光明、自由和学习的地方。
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
每当一个学生经过一幢属于他的学院的非常紧急、富有表现力的建筑时，它都能帮助他确信，他确实有那样的头脑，有那样的灵魂。