I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939…

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

— Harold E. Varmus

I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted…

— Eva Vertes

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…

— Stanley Hauerwas

My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is…

— Alan J. Heeger

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…

— Seamus Heaney

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…

— Therese Fowler

“College is not the only chance to learn to think, but it is the best. One thing is certain: If you haven’t started by…

— Anonymous

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

— John Ziman

From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! [While an undergraduate,…

— William M. Fowler

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave…

— Orson Scott Card

Interestingly, a good undergraduate program does a lot of what an MBA does. I think a really good undergraduate program and some work experience…

— Gerry Schwartz

I knew Hillary Clinton from undergraduate days and was enormously impressed with her. She was a terrific energy and enthusiasm, and a great organizer.…

— Robert Reich

Unfortunately, the Bible won't tell you directly, "Thou shalt take the new job in marketing..." or "Thou shalt go directly from undergraduate school to…

— Craig Groeschel

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

— Hill Harper

We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing…

— Judith Curry