Undergraduate Quotes - Page 2

• I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit.

  Glen Mazzara

  Summer, Jobs, Nyu

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• My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

  Kenneth Arrow

  New York, Sacrifice, College

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• I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Years, Discipline, Labs

  "Jonah Lehrer: We can all be as creative as Picasso... we just have to learn how". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• I knew Hillary Clinton from undergraduate days and was enormously impressed with her. She was a terrific energy and enthusiasm, and a great organizer. And I knew that she was going to have a political future.

  Robert Reich

  Political, Energy, Enthusiasm

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn't realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life.

  Arnold Palmer

  Meaningful, Years, Forests

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• As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

  Nicholas Stern

  Math, Trying, Physics

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• If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Jobs, Attitude, Educational

  "Will Dropouts Save America?". www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2011.

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• Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

  Derek Bok

  Teaching, College, Support

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• There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

  Brian Greene

  Yearbook, College, Rooms

  "Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. March 4, 2011.

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• As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

  Andrew Weil

  Psychologist, Harvard, Skinner

  "Pressing The Bar" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2013.

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• Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for?

  Eric Foner

  Dog, Book, Writing

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• On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world. To students, mathematics appears to deal almost entirely with things whlch are of no concern at all to man.

  Morris Kline

  Education, Real, Science

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• I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Mean, Giving

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making treatise on the comparative morphology of plants. This book, studied while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, was undoubtedly the most important factor in determining the trend of my botanical investigation for many years.

  Douglas Houghton Campbell

  Book, Science, Years

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• The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

  John Ziman

  Truth, Book, Physics

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• I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist. Each book hopefully adds another piece to the jigsaw that is modern Scotland, asking questions about the nation's politics, economy, psyche and history ... and perhaps pointing towards its possible future.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Writing, Asking Questions

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• While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Son, Doors, Class

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• St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Loss, Years, Remembrance

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.37, Pan Macmillan

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• My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers, Jack Ratcliffe, who had given an excellent course on electromagnetic theory during my final undergraduate year.

  Antony Hewish

  Teacher, War, Science

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• I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.

  Alonzo Church

  School, Math, Goes On

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• The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture a pool of graduates who are able to think deeply and broadly about these issues, and help develop novel solutions for Singapore, Asia and beyond. I am delighted at this programme for another reason - it is the first undergraduate course that draws on expertise from eight Faculties in NUS, making full use of the comprehensive strengths of our University.

  Tan Chorh Chuan

  Thinking, Issues, Eight

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• In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating into more women in entry-level jobs, even more women in lower-level management. But there's absolutely been no progress at the top. You can't explain away 10 years. Ten years of no progress is no progress.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Work, Women

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• I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

  Alan Kay

  Stanford University, Training, Java

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is an interesting one. When I was an undergraduate, there was a glib notion around that there was no reason to suppose a bad man could be a good writer.

  Seamus Heaney

  Spiritual, Men, Emotional

  Source: www.questia.com

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• Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

  Emilio Ambasz

  School, Sublime, Architecture

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