And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.
I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.
Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.
When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.
I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
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