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
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
“I am writing a treatise just now" said the badger, coughing diffidently to show that he was absolutely set on explaining it,… — T.H. White 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
Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and… — Mark Kelly Copy Share Image
Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I moved straight from kindergarten ,at age 4, to graduate school to my position at Lake Forest ,at age 26. No break.… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
“If want to succeed, you must work to overcome the obstacles on your path.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“It was possible to explore the 'great tradition' of the English novel and believe that in doing so you were addressing questions… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school at MIT I was trying to think about how to develop software and systems for farmers… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit. — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity.… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
