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The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.

— Barton Gellman

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I went to school on Senior Skip Day.

— Derek Jeter

In 1990, I was an undergraduate freshman archeology major sneaking over to the English building and unearthing an amazing repository of books I'd never even suspected. By 1998, I'd have my Ph.D.

— Stephen Graham Jones

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

— Meryl Streep

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

— J. Philippe Rushton

So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.

— Jessica Szohr

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

— G. H. Hardy

I came to the University of Chicago on the morning of January 2, 1932. I wasn't yet a graduate of high school for another few months. And that was about the low point of the Herbert Hoover/Andrew Mellon phase after October of 1929. That's quite a number of years to have inaction.

— Paul Samuelson

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

I came to graduate school at Harvard University in 1954. My thesis supervisor, Julian Schwinger, had about a dozen doctoral students at a time. Getting his ear was as difficult as it was rewarding. I called my thesis 'The Vector Meson in Elementary Particle Decays', and it showed an early commitment to an electroweak synthesis.

— Sheldon Lee Glashow

My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel.

— Elias James Corey