Every day on my campus, I encounter and interact with students who at one time thought, or perhaps were told, that college was not a place for them.
"At one time I thought that call might be professional soccer.
At the time, no one thought that machines designed for numeric computations could be used for the study of written texts and linguistic concordances.
At one time, many thought that securitized subprime mortgages could help close the affordability gap, especially for minorities; loose federal regulation fostered such mortgages, with consequences we all know.
At one time, she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it was really just the large warm mug she wanted in her hands, that was the aid to thought or whatever it was she practiced through the procession of hours, or of days.
"At one time, people thought that if you just put enough people in the system at the front end, they would rise to the top," said Nancy Hopkins, a biology professor who demonstrated three years ago that there was a bias against women in science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
At one time I thought that Linus and Snoopy counted?
"I think temperamentally I have learned in my life that I can do a maximum of three years in the public sector at any one time and I think that was about my limit," he said.
"That was one of the few times when I thought, 'That's incredible,'" he says.
"I say this all the time: I think that was one of the greatest days in my life.
