"While in high school, I spent a summer working in a university research lab. The graduate student who mentored me shared this insight: physicists are people who get paid for working at their hobby. For me, that has been a joyous truth. Physicists don’t get paid much, but we sure have a lot of fun. And so, my first wish for you is that, whatever you do, you will work at something you love."
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Academics from the United StatesNobel laureates in PhysicsNobel laureates from the United StatesPhysicists from the United StatesMassachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
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(Commencement Address, May 9, 1999)
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