Christina Tosi Quotes

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

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.

Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

I was graduated in 1940 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Science but a major in Mathematics, a paradoxical combination that was prognostic of my future interests.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

So I decided on science when I was in college.

I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.

I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately - I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

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