Bernie Mac

I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.

American Actor

Mark Foster

I was afraid of the sophomore slump even before our first record came out. It was a very real fear because I'd watched so many bands I'd loved in the past not deliver. I knew it was a very real thing. I didn't know why it happens, but I'd been thinking about it a lot.

American Musician

Alice Walker

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

American Author

Dwayne Johnson

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

Christopher Jackson

I was going to play pro baseball. That was the dream. But in my sophomore year of high school a teacher who knew I performed, singing in church, she said, 'You know we have a speech team,' and she handed me a copy of 'The Crucible.

Sarah Silverman

And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.

American Comedian

John Wayne

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

Paula Deen

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

American Chef

Beverley Mitchell

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.

American Actress

Jacob deGrom

My freshman year, I played third, and sophomore and junior, third.

American Athlete

Used specifically for second-year students in North American education systems.

Academic Label

Sophomores have completed their first year; don't confuse them with freshmen, who are first-year students.

Not Freshmen

In movies and books, sophomores often face unique challenges as they're no longer new but not quite upperclassmen.

Cultural Nuance

Refers to classes designed for students in their second year, sometimes with prerequisites.

Academic Courses

Sophomore courses are generally more challenging than introductory courses.

Intermediate Challenge

In a sophomore course, you're expected to have improved skills and knowledge from your first year.

Improvement Expected

Also used to describe second offerings in creative fields like music or arts, not just education.

Beyond School

A sophomore effort has expectations to meet or exceed the first, often with pressure.

Success Pressure

Second efforts are closely watched and critiqued, as people are curious if success or quality can be repeated.

Critical Eye

 I began to get to know him and his friends and family, and I asked him what he thought about me writing about his life for my senior thesis in college. This senior thesis became a dissertation at Princeton and now a book. By the end of my sophomore year, I moved into the neighborhood and I spent the next six years

Alice Goffman: How we're...

 I'm really excited to tell them I'm in Hopper. I'm really proud to be here as a sophomore. Changing the people that we honor, um, helps a wider range of students be able to envision themselves as someone who can make a difference, who will be remembered. KATIE As part of a conscious effort

How Yale Confronted...

 Given a little more time, I could show you how linear algebra, differential calculus, integral calculus also play a roll. The main thing I want you to go away with today is to just remember that all the math that you're learning in high school and actually up through sophomore college

Pixar: The math behind...

 I want to share some personal friends and stories with you that I've actually never talked about in public before to help illustrate the idea and the need and the hope for us to reinvent our health care system around the world. Twenty-four years ago, I had -- a sophomore in college,

Eric Dishman: Health...

 I needed help. I definitely needed help. So we recruited undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and professors from different institutions and multiple disciplines to come together and work on this idea that I conceived as a sophomore in college.

How cancer cells...

 suffering greatly you and your mom went to school when you're a sophomore you explained to the school what was going on and my understanding is your high school was pretty accepting and receptive is that accurate I was assured that I would be respected to school I

Gavin Grimm's Story PIPE...

 I'm a sophomore and studying communications, TV and mass media, and basically trying to live life like a normal kid, which I always wanted growing up. But it was hard to do that when I was born with spina bifida and my kidneys and bladder weren't working.

Printing a human kidney...

 describe the constellations and things like that we did that by bicycle it was there that he started to imagine the possibility of life outside our planet and later as a sophomore at cornell he looked into the night sky and saw it

Frank Drake’s Cosmic...

 teachers couldn't give up on me I was finally by mid sophomore year I finally caught up with my friends I have wonderful friends ila I love like campus campus life although I'm not very good

Paying it forward with...

 And you get to the point in your life when you start What will be your leave-behind, your legacy? And those stories of my sophomore year came back to me. I took my love of the theater.