“I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, ... I'm scared that they're going to drop me. In the fall of 2002 I signed up for five classes and had to drop three of them.”
“I worked there for a year, ... I'd taken the year off from school and was doing double-session workouts. I needed something to do with myself between practices, so I worked there four hours a day.”
“[What is Amanda Beard doing in school, anyway? At her bewildering, Van Wildering academic pace, you might think that her favored stroke is the crawl. Besides, she already has fame, fortune and an FHM cover.] I'm going to graduate, ... no matter how long it takes.”
