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There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate. -- John Dickey
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. -- David Eagleman
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. -- Frederick Reines
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. -- Carl Sagan
It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school. -- Leigh Steinberg
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. -- Antonia Fraser
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. -- Orson Scott Card
I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience. -- Eva Vertes
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations. -- Amar Bose
On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No. -- Tama Janowitz
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2. -- Danica McKellar
As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator. -- Robert T. Bakker
[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. -- Virginia Woolf
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. -- Douglass North
I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global. -- Ernest L. Boyer
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false. -- John Ziman
Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports. -- Merton Miller
The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics. -- Lawrence R. Klein
I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion. -- James W. Black
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 Joseph Arrow
As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest. -- Donald Johanson
From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! [While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.] -- William M. Fowler
I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them - the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings. -- Thomas Merton
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess. -- Stanley Hauerwas
If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. -- James Tobin
As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory. -- Andrew Weil
My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. -- Hill Harper
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
I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature. -- Leslie Cockburn
When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting. -- Jim Parsons
The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school. -- Robert Shapiro
In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools. -- Gerry Schwartz
My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from. -- Michael Moritz
During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high position at some of the companies that were doing that, I knew that law would be useful. -- Robert Shapiro
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
When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on them at that time. In fact, he discovered the model species Dictyostelium discoideum, which is the species used in the majority of the experimental work today. -- John Tyler Bonner
As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as an editorial assistant for a literary magazine. -- Therese Fowler
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
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true. -- John Ziman
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. -- Emilio Ambasz
As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major. -- Janet Fitch
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977 -- Anita Hill
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977. -- Anita Hill
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s. -- Stephen Cole Kleene
I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics. -- Philip Kitcher
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. -- Harold E. Varmus
My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in. -- Shannon Miller
I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising. -- Joseph DeRisi
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. -- Alan Kay
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
The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics. -- Lawrence R. Klein
As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it. -- Dinaw Mengestu
I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion. -- James W. Black
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 Joseph Arrow
The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans. -- Marco Rubio
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
Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level. -- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. -- Thom Gunn
Christians need jobs just like anybody else, but the years you spend as an undergraduate are like everything else in your life. They're not yours to do with as you please. They're Christ's. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it. -- Mary Karr
To ensure a well-motivated participant, Pfungst rewarded Clever Hans with a small piece of bread, carrot or sugar each time he responded (interestingly, this same procedure still works well with most undergraduate students today). -- Richard Wiseman
I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start." -- Edward Zigler
I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa. -- Donald Johanson
My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women.We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time. -- Melinda Gates

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