I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.
I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.
Most guys in high school wore clothes seen only by their classmates. I wore clothes seen by the world.
I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
Students who have spent their childhood here in Florida deserve to qualify for the same in-state tuition rate at universities their peers and classmates do.
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.
When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature.