Undergraduate Quotes

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

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

John Dickey

Vulnerable, Combination, Humans

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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

Stars, Night, Class

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.414, Ballantine Books

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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

Writing, Decision, Massachusetts

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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

Stupid, Class, Careers

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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

Sweet, College, Years

Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

Douglass North

California, Records, Mediocre

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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

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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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

School, Math, Technology

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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 Black

Passion, Progress, Tissues

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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 Klein

California, Training, Levels

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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

David Eagleman

Literature, British, University

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As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.

Robert T. Bakker

Jobs, Small Jobs, Illustrators

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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

Years, Discipline, Expectations

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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

Opportunity, Ucla, Years

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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

Opportunity, Hiking, Numbers

"The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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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

Country, Children, Bad Day

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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

Mother, Doctors, Oxford

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We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing area of understanding seems to be the actual physical mechanism. Lets target an explanation at an audience that has taken 1 year each of undergraduate physics and chemistry, plus calculus. Once we have something that is convincing at this level, we can work on how to communicate this to the interested public (i.e. those that hang out in the climate blogosphere). Willis Eschenbach’s help is needed in translating this for the WUWT crowd.

Judith Curry

Taken, Years, Games

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Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

John Maeda

Design, Students, Graduates

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[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

Virginia Woolf

Funny, Pimples, Insult

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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.

Alan Kay

Training, Degrees, Java

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

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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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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 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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