For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not… — Brian Acton Copy Share Image
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue… — Padmasree Warrior Copy Share Image
In 2006, I made the decision to go after my dream. I was living in Atlanta and had a promising career in… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a… — Max Winkler Copy Share Image
To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering,… — Amisha Patel Copy Share Image
One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will… — Alexa Von Tobel Copy Share Image
I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, I understand the importance access to high quality education plays… — Elise Stefanik Copy Share Image
The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with… — Topher Grace Copy Share Image
Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming.… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
As for facial hair, I think I decided it was a good look after graduate school. I always shave it myself and… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
When I got out of the military, I finished up my education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it,… — Andrea Anders Copy Share Image
It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate,… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
“As a kid I was deeply curious as to what college life would be like. Now that I am a university professor,… — James Kakalios Copy Share Image
I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three… — Daniel J. Evans Copy Share Image
People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week' magazine. Then I decided to make a… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving… — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a… — Sam Tsui Copy Share Image
Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Not everyone is a graduate! You're already lucky, make the most out of it! All the best for a bright future ahead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
