Admission Quote by Frederick Reines

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of…

— Sidney Altman

I got quite the college experience.

— Ryan Cabrera

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics…

— Burton Richter

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city,…

— Mitch Albom

My dad told me that I was going to Georgia Tech.

— Christopher Eubanks

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 was accepted by a college in Edinburgh but I think the acceptance letter shocked me into realising it wasn't what I wanted.

— Edith Bowman

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

— Anonymous

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.

— Priti Patel

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.

— Lewis Schiff