#graduate student

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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Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey. ↗

— Antony Hewish

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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them. ↗

— Frank Press

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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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