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"I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college."
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"Earnestness is stupidity sent to college."
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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl."
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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"
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"While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor."
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"In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College."
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"I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943."
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"I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!"
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"And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine."
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"One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter."
Space Exploration
"So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things."
Life
"And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives."
Travel
"You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!"
Time
"Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with."
Being
"There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia."
Work
"Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back."
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"Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic."
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"And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career."
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"And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc."
People
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