- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Graduate Students Quotes
Lessons passed down one lab and lecture hall at a time.
This set of graduate students quotes leans on professors recalling their own mentees, from Stanford labs to Berkeley campuses in the sixties. For a broader look at classroom dynamics, see the Adjunct quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.
- Coupled
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- Nov 07, 2020
An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
- Dinosaurs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.
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- Nov 07, 2020