Academic Aspirants Pillows

"Finally! Summer is here! That means we're one year closer to college!"

"What's your project for the science fair, Arnold?"

"That's Brian Eggleston, de facto leader of the playground intelligentsia."

"The teacher expects too much of me. She wants me to give it the old college try, and I'm only in grade school."

"Remember, education pays, unless you end up an adjunct - like me."

"Hey, there's Sara, padding her college-entrance résumé!"

'The bad news is you failed all your courses. The good news is you passed the urine test.'

'Why not take some time off after high school...travel a bit...get a job...make some money...pay your own way through college.'

'It's my application to Harvard...'

'So, what do you want to be when you grow up: rebel scum or loyal servant of the supreme android republic?'

'Thirty years in academia and all I got was this chair.'

You got into the college of my choice, and I got into the college of your choice. Now if we could just work something out...

"The extent of your extracurricular activities in high school, may very well be participation in regular program of oral hygiene using an effective decay preventaative tooth paste, but that won't get you into a good university."

Books: Self-Improvement Just keeping up with Joneses.

"The counselor wasn't much help about getting into college. All he said was to study hard and get good grades."

Gracie goes over to the college recruitment tent at a carnival.

A girl climbs a ladder of books

'...no you can't phone a friend!'

'We are looking for highly motivated, confident decisions makers for headships. Is your son such a man, Mrs Smikins?'

How to win Genius Grants for Dummies!

"You got 136? It says here you're genius if you get a 132."

"I've had those books for years. They represent the person I once aspired to be."

"Well, I think it's good that he wants to go to university."

'Best way I know to decide who gets the research position.'

Unpublished Authors of the Big Bangs Theory

"Papi, I'm planning my future. How much money do you have in my college fund?"

"Would a beard make me look more academic?"

Monkey tries to read a book.

"Actually, I hope more people think being smart is annoying. I'll have less competition when I apply to college."

'I can go to college after all if you increase my allowance to $50,000.'

"This says freshmen college enrollment is reaching record levels!"