“Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.” YearsMomentsGovernmentClearDoorsResearchUniversityProductivePartnershipFederal GovernmentMit Author:Charles M. Vest
“For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.” DoorsPossibilityUniversityAwfulShopsCandyClosing Author:Richard Powers
“I was invited. Oxford University Press is simply as prestigious a press as there is so when they come to your door and invite you to be a part of something like this, you say yes. It truly is an honor to work with them, particularly on a project as large as this one. The story of how they came to me is a good lesson though about the unexpected and creating new opportunities.” StoriesOpportunityDoorsHonorLessonsProjectsCreatingPressesUniversityUnexpectedInvitesInvitedOxfordNew OpportunityPrestigiousOxford University Author:Patricia Leavy
“I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.” IdeasMatterNextWhiteClassTeachDoorsMiddleColorSkinsUniversityExpectedChosenMiddle ClassNeighborhoodPeculiarEmbarrassingSonnetRenaissanceEthnicityYaleSkin ColorYale University Author:Richard Rodriguez
“The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is next door to the zoo. Animals get out, they're going to eat white people before they get to the ghetto!” PeopleAmericaNextWhiteAnimalDoorsUniversityForestsParksGhettoZoos Author:Dick Gregory
“At 16, I got a part-time job selling double-glazing door to door. That was soul destroying but the worst part-time job I did was at university working on reception in a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Because no one else wanted to do it, they paid £8 an hour.” SoulWantedJobsHoursDoorsWorstDiseasePaidUniversitySellingDestroyingSexuallyReceptionClinicPart TimePart Time JobsSexually Transmitted Diseases Author:Kate Thornton