Quinta Brunson plays an educator on television, but the “Abbott Elementary” star never finished her degree at Temple University. Because Brunson knew it would be difficult to tell her mom, a teacher, that she had dropped out, she decided not to tell her at all.<\/p>\n
“That’s the way you do that, you kind of slow roll it,” Brunson said during an appearance Monday on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” “I said, ‘You know, Mom, I love school so much, I need to take a semester off to focus on paying for it so that you and Dad don’t have to pay for it.’ And the thing was, I kind of meant that at the time.”<\/p>\n
MORE:\u00a0These Philly bars are offering Flyers-themed drink specials for the playoffs<\/a><\/p>\n Brunson said she lasted about two years at Temple before she dropped out. During that time, she worked on “Temple SMASH,” the student comedy show on Temple University<\/a> Television.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I was doing well though. Well, I was doing well until I wasn’t,” Brunson said. “But when I wasn’t, it was more of a choice, you know? I was like ‘All right, I’m not into this anymore.'”\u00a0<\/p>\n After taking the semester off, Brunson said she told her mom that she wanted to move and enroll at UCLA, saying she wanted a new environment. Brunson said she kind of meant that, too, but she only ended up taking improv classes.\u00a0<\/p>\n Fallon asked her about her time at Temple after noting that they both had honorary degrees from schools they had dropped out of.\u00a0<\/p>\n