Amherst Quote by Harold E. Varmus

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies…

— Harold E. Varmus

I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It…

— J. G. Ballard

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

— Hill Harper

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