“I was really desperate. I don’t know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn’t want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn’t mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.”
– Shannon Lucid
“I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day – I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.”
– R. Lee Ermey
“I did graduate with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1948.”
– Daniel J. Evans
“I wrote a novel for my degree, and I’m very happy I didn’t submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.”
– David Eddings
“In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That’s when I started to be interested in girls.”
– Ed O’Neill
“I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind – although I was just 22.”
– Daniel J. Evans
“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.”
– Gordon Brown
“I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.”
– James Green Somerville
“Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.”
– Al McGuire
“My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.”
– Kenneth G. Wilson
“One half who graduate from college never read another book.”
– G. M. Trevelyan
“Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.”
– Alexis Herman
“I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.”
– James Stewart
“My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.”
– Kenneth G. Wilson
“When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.”
– M. H. Abrams
“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
“The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.”
– Tony Hillerman
“If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.”
– Alan Dundes
“In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.”
– Ted Nelson
“So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.”
– Ted Nelson
“Even though I didn’t get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.”
– Herb Ritts
“I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.”
– Mark Kennedy
“I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I’d be a lousy businessman, and if I didn’t give acting a try I’d regret it for the rest of my life.”
– Peter Gallagher
“Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.”
– Faith Hill
“I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.”
– Marc Garneau
“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
– Robert M. Hutchins
“When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.”
– Christine Gregoire
“Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.”
– Douglas Wilson
“I teach one semester a year, and this year I’m just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.”
– Tobias Wolff
“ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they’re getting the business.”
– Robert Sternberg