Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee

When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.

Alexandra Kleeman
Alexandra Kleeman

Remembering who I am is a really active task for me. And I often have to tell myself, 'You're a graduate student,' 'You're a daughter,' et cetera, in situations where I'm supposed to behave like one.

Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott

At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

Alvin E. Roth
Alvin E. Roth

My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.

Amanda Foreman
Amanda Foreman

I was a graduate student at Oxford when I discovered Georgiana.

Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang

Very few parents keep up with who the top professors are or whose classes their kids are taking, partially because most undergraduates interact more commonly with graduate students.

Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.

Antony Hewish
Antony Hewish

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal

Our professor was Marty Scorsese. Marty was a graduate student, or Mr. Scorsese, which is what I had to call him, and still do when I see him 'cause he gave me a C.

Chen-Ning Yang
Chen-Ning Yang

A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.