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It was all about being… I could not get another C or I'd be gone. So it was all about As and B-pluses and I'd be crying if I got a B-plus. I wanted all As. But, you know, that is the time when you are rambunctious, you just left your mom and dad's house, you don't have to go to the store for anybody, you don't have to clean your room. You can go knock on girl's doors anytime of the night, they can knock on yours. So it's like and things were there, time to experiment and explore and kind of like get in trouble, you know? So I did my share.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Anika Noni Rose, who co-star stars in the BET college drama, said she learned a lot about herself during her freshman days. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I learned that I am not for dorm life, not for me. Not that person. Not very communal in that way. I like a clean bathroom. I like quiet. I like space. So I moved off of campus very early in my college career. I learned that Columbus Day is only a day off when you're in high school or primary school. So I was home wondering why people were calling me. I was like, 'What? It's Columbus Day? I'm home!' And I learned to - I wasn't really a party person. So like I went to the occasional party, but I didn't live at parties,\" she said. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I did,\" countered Santiago-Hudson, as the pair agreed they probably wouldn't have been friends as co-eds. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"We would've hated each other! I was at every salsa contest, I was at every freak dance, whatever, I had to be there. And that's why they found a door for me to go out of. But they let me back in, that's the good thing. And I made them proud hopefully,\" said Santiago-Hudson. \u003cbr/\u003e              Like his \"Quad\" character, Peyton Alex Smith was still figuring himself out when he started college.  \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Man! Personally? No, I was kind of like Cedric or like any of the characters that are in 'The Quad,' where I was kind of still finding myself and I didn't know that I was finding myself. I guess the freshman year when I arrived, it kind of helped me and so it's cool to go through another person's or another character's circumstances and kind of live what I lived and put some of that into his character. So it's very interesting,\" he mused.\u003cbr/\u003e              Co-star Zoe Renee didn't go to college, but is getting the freshman experience on the show, which films at Morehouse College in Atlanta.  \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Like it's crazy! It's like, 'Oh, my gosh, I'm here with the students' and they're like, 'Oh gosh, I've got to get to class.' It feels really cool that I am able to be around peers that are really doing it and I see the fraternities and sororities and I'm like, 'Gosh, this is like, this is awesome. This is an awesome life to like live and be around.'\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Smith added that they even got to experience homecoming on set. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"We are living the life. So it's been cool to kind of sneak into that life,\" Renee said. \u003cbr/\u003e              Season two of the \"The Quad\" airs Tuesdays on BET in the U.S..\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Pasadena, Calif., 15 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Wide shot Anika Noni Rose and Ruben Santiago-Hudson prepare for portrait photos\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ruben Santiago-Hudson, actor - on his freshman year at college:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I was freshman enough to get kicked out by my sophomore year and had to come back and just make sure that I got all As for the rest of my entire college career. It was all about being… I could not get another C or I'd be gone. So it was all about As and B-pluses and I'd be crying if I got a B-plus. I wanted all As. But, you know, that is the time when you are rambunctious, you just left your mom and dad's house, you don't have to go to the store for anybody, you don't have to clean your room. You can go knock on girl's doors anytime of the night, they can knock on yours. So it's like and things were there, time to experiment and explore and kind of like get in trouble, you know? So I did my share. You know, I was 17 when I went to college.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) Anika Noni Rose, actress: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"So was I.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Santiago-Hudson: \"And I acted it. You knew I was 17.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Rose: \"I was not in trouble.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Santiago-Hudson: \"You didn't go to school with me! You don't know.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              Rose: \"I learned that I am not for dorm life, not for me. Not that person. Not very communal in that way. I like a clean bathroom. I like quiet. I like space. So I moved off of campus very early in my college career. I learned that Columbus Day is only a day off when you're in high school or primary school. So I was home wondering why people were calling me. I was like, 'What? It's Columbus Day? I'm home!' And I learned to - I wasn't really a party person. So like I went to the occasional party, but I didn't live at parties.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Santiago-Hudson: \"I did.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Rose: \"See we never would have been… If we had gone to school at the same time, we probably wouldn't have even known each other!\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Santiago-Hudson: \"We would've hated each other! I was at every salsa contest, I was at every freak dance, whatever, I had to be there. And that's why they found a door for me to go out of. But they let me back in, that's the good thing. And I made them proud hopefully.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Medium shot Zoe Renee and Peyton Alex Smith pose for photos \u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Peyton Alex Smith, actor:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Man! Personally? No, I was kind of like Cedric or like any of the characters that are in 'The Quad,' where I was kind of still finding myself and I didn't know that I was finding myself. I guess the freshman year when I arrived, it kind of helped me and so it's cool to go through another person's or another character's circumstances and kind of live what I lived and put some of that into his character. So it's very interesting.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              (Reporter: \"And you get to have your college experience now.\")\u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) Zoe Renee, actress: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Exactly! I keep telling people that, like it's so awesome to be on a set that's on Morehouse College in Atlanta. And like it's crazy! It's like, 'Oh, my gosh, I'm here with the students' and they're like, 'Oh gosh, I've got to get to class.' It feels really cool that I am able to be around peers that are really doing it and I see the fraternities and sororities and I'm like, 'Gosh, this is like, this is awesome. This is an awesome life to like live and be around.'\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Smith: \"We had a homecoming.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Renee: \"Oh gosh, we did everything!\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Smith: \"We go to lunch. We have class. We are really back in college.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Renee: \"We are living the life. So it's been cool to kind of sneak into that life.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              5. 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