#graduate student

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. ↗

— Sidney Altman

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I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

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You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net. ↗

— Jon Postel

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It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here. ↗

— Ruth J. Simmons

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I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

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Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics. ↗

— Sidney Altman

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At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations. ↗

— Amar Bose

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My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student. ↗

— James Cronin

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