Academic Experience Quotes

If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.

I think I really benefited from going to college.

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

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

Though I did M.Sc. from Dharamshala, I was always attracted towards music.

Attending USC has been such a great experience for me and has really helped prepare me for my next step in life.

I got quite the college experience.

At the beginning of my sophomore year at Princeton University, I took my first economics course; our textbook was the first edition of Samuelson's 'Economics: An Introductory Analysis.'

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked college. I wasn't aware enough to know that the junior high I was suffering through would be school at its worst.

I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere.

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

I went to school in Massachusetts at Hampshire College.

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.

I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.

However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just trying to find the shortest book that I could find. I was like, "'Hard Times,' really great - it's short, that'll do it."

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.

In 1922, I got a small stipend from the Swedish-American Foundation and went to Cambridge, England, for a few months and thereafter to Harvard University. In the summer, Cambridge was rather empty, but I am grateful for many pleasant talks about economics with Austin Robinson who, in the summer of 1922, seemed to be about as lonely as I was.