Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.
I was born in New York, so I'd love to study at New York University.
The Rhodes is something I've always really wanted. I would never have applied for it if I didn't really want to go. The opportunity to study at Oxford is amazing.
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.
I want to go to college.
I really wanted to go to college.
I was born knowing I had to go to college.
I really want to go to college.
All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
I don't think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.
Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have seen that in economics departments. The same must be true to some extent in other departments.
