“I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.”
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“I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.”
“Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.”
“ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.”
“Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.”
“If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.”
“In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.”
“So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.”
“Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.”
“I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.”
“I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.”
“North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?”
“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.”
“I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.”
“Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.”
“One half who graduate from college never read another book.”
“I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.”
“I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.”
“Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.”
“I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.”
“When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.”
“In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.”
“I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.”
“My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.”