#graduate

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.

#became #been #choice #competition #either

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#arnold #arnold schwarzenegger #bad #california #calling

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

#beating #beer #cars #completely #crazy

Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#being #catholic #else #enough #everybody

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#age #children #college #compared #families

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. ↗

— George Weinberg

#benefit #columbia #could #course #educated

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

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#california #carried #graduate #institute #out

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. ↗

— Douglass North

#california #mediocre #record #say #undergraduate

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#drama school #graduated #i #school #two

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. ↗