Sentences with phrase «about getting to college»

For example, these students may rarely come into contact with anyone who has gone to college or who intends to go, so the aspirations and knowledge about getting to college never develop.

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Though she never expressed second thoughts about her chosen path — she'd dropped out of Smith College to get married and start a family — others sometimes did.

«The way to maximize your chances of getting that release is to make the payments on time,» said Kantrowitz, publisher of Edvisors Network, a group of websites about planning and paying for college.

If you go to a less expensive college, get excited about «the opportunities a school will give you beyond college because you're not going to be burdened by debt,» said education consultant Klemmer.

By the time he or she gets to high school, it is time for a heart - to - heart about college.

While both Volvo and Imperial College concede that these applications are still a long way off, the potential alone is more than enough to get anyone geeked - up about the future of materials research.

He went on to say, «I don't know all the rules and regulations about it, but I do know what five - star athletes bring to a campus, both in basketball and football, I know how much these college coaches get paid.

For our series College Treps, entrepreneur Dwight Peters gets 10 successful Kickstarter creators to open up about what made their campaign a hit.

The last thing anyone wants to think about when they get out of college is repaying their student loans.

After I got out of the service I went to world famous Los Angeles City College and like I came down here and I was going to Los Angeles City College and someone suggested I go to an acting class in the evening and I said I don't know about that.

To give you an example, when I was 16 years old and felt all hope was lost, it wasn't until I got extremely clear about getting a college scholarship for football that my daily actions and behaviors started to changTo give you an example, when I was 16 years old and felt all hope was lost, it wasn't until I got extremely clear about getting a college scholarship for football that my daily actions and behaviors started to changto change.

Think about it — a certain amount of anxiety about getting the job done is often the motivating factor that actually gets college students to buckle down and study for exams, or gets journalists to finally send something to their editor.

About a year after I started doing this stuff, I broke some big record, a 72 - ounce steak in seven minutes, and after I posted that video I got asked by an eating organization to come down to San Diego in 2008 for something called the Collegiate Nationals, a contest between all the college eaters and university eaters of North America.

Founding teams that include at least one woman get about 18 percent of venture capital, according to research from Babson College.

Let's face it, your parents didn't teach you how to get rich and the schools and colleges don't even talk about it.

In «Clark Smart Parents, Clark Smart Kids,» he addresses everything from allowances — when and how much to give — to teaching teens about credit cards and navigating the purchase of a first car — how to get it, pay for it, and insure it — to saving for college, paying off loans, staying out of debt, and much more!

When I first graduated from college and got a job I bought a car (Honda accord) which I shouldn't have for around 20k I was making 35k since I was young and dumb and didn't have a lot of credit I got slapped with a ridiculous apr around 12 % so my payment was about $ 350 I really that I had negative equity so I tried to get out of it by buying a another car that was worth more but cost the same with a lower interest rate to try to get rid of my negative equity.

If you're organized, knowledgeable about the higher education process, and enjoy working with adolescents and their parents, consider starting a side business as an independent college application consultant to help more smart, ambitious, and qualified kids get into the schools of their dreams.

Ingraham got crosswise with anti-gun Parkland student David Hogg when she made a fairly innocuous joke about how the teenager was whining over being turned down by several colleges he applied to attend.

Parkland, Florida, school - shooting survivor David Hogg was able to get about a dozen advertisers to boycott «The Ingraham Angle» last week after host Laura Ingraham tweeted that he had «whined» about not getting into the colleges of his choice.

I had figured that Grand Canyon would get good reviews because of its large investments, and overall, it seems to rank about the same as most average non-profit colleges.

Using the argument of neutrality is too dismissive to the more pertinent fact at hand — likely about $ 300k was deployed to control $ 1.6 m, to be used in any way shape or form when it is all said and done... retiring abroad, funding their kids college, starting their tube meat meat truck business after they get tired of the lawyering rat race, etc etc..

It's so funny how often christians try to play the discrimination / mistreatment card, but when they actually get just the teensiest bit of what they could possibly, maybe call some minute persecution, they b!tch and moan until the whole country knows about it and changes some little rule of some college campus..

We got into a conversation about God because she knew I was going to go to Bible College and she asked why.

I get confused about what excellence can mean from institution to institution, given the American practice of grading colleges; even the much less than superlative schools claim to be excellent.

If you want to get a sneak peek at what the Christian community will be talking about in 5 - 10 years, just spend some time on a Christian college campus.From evolution to religious pluralism to homosexuality, the issues that play out on the national scene often begin in classrooms, late - night dorm room discussions, and chapel services.

The thing about the modern world is that we get to watch some transform from a intelligent college graduate into a media whore in just a few days, right before our eyes.

Penn State and other colleges should get back to the basics — EDUCATION and forget about f ****** sports!

CNN: «The Blind Side» too hot for Christian bookstore «The Blind Side» was a heartwarming movie about a real - life Christian family who adopted a troubled teen with a knack for football, helped him get into college, and eventually all the way to the NFL.

In college we used to joke about a guy going up to a girl and telling her that God wanted them to get married; because you're right «God told me so» is like the ultimate trump card.

Whether hosting an event on campus to inform your community about a humanitarian issue happening on the other side of the world, going into your city to help at a local organization or picking up trash on the way to class, getting involved and engaged in any way possible is an important facet to add to your college life.

I remember in college, many moons ago, thinking that since I was so very opinionated about religion, I really should make sure I was familiar with the Bible... So I read it... cover to cover... I can tell you, I honestly didn't enjoy it... it's NOT a great read... bits are interesting, and of course very familiar... I took me almost the whole year, but I got through it... So imagine my surprise some time later when I found myself at an after conference gathering, that just so happened to have an inexplicably number of overtly religious attendants (inexplicable because it was a hi - tech network security conference) and after listening quietly for a while, jumped in with the statement «well, you've all read the bible cover to cover, as have I»....

Finally, The Closing of the American Mind says nothing about how colleges and universities should get from where they are to where its author thinks they should be.

Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks about cities.

When it starts getting into science however and they choose not to teach facts about science, I'd be hardpressed to believe that a student who was seriously looking to go into medicine would choose a place that doesn't teach it correctly, and even more, I don't think many hospital would want students from a college that didn't teach medicine.

(CNN)- «The Blind Side» was a heartwarming movie about a real - life Christian family who adopted a troubled teen with a knack for football, helped him get into college, and eventually all the way to the NFL.

For example, I had a friend in college who use to pray about God's will for every decision, including which ice cream to get at Baskin and Robbins.

Felicity O'Brien, an historian at King's College, London, recently visited the museum and got to thinking about the many attacks of the past thirty years on Pius XII for his alleged indifference to the plight of the Jews under Hitler.

I am reminded of the time when, as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, I got an angry e-mail from a woman who assumed that because I had referred to «holiday season workers» in an article I wrote about college students taking on extra retail jobs between Thanksgiving and New Year's that I had a clear, «anti-Christian» bias.

Sure I hit up the occasional sushi bar in college, but it wasn't until I moved to Hawaii that I really fell in love with raw fish (although I do get the occasional reminder / warning from my mother about the potential health risks:).

With the 2015 - 16 season about to get underway for Michigan and first year coach Jim Harbaugh, ESPN released its annual «College Football Bowl Predictions» post.

With the 2015 - 16 season about to get underway for Michigan and first year coach Jim Harbaugh, ESPN released its annual «College Football Bowl...

But instead of getting faux mad about a minor scheduling inconvenience, let's take a high - level view on why audibling (football term) to tonight's College Football Playoff semifinals (Clemson - Oklahoma at 4 p.m. ET on ESPN, Alabama - Michigan State at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN) might be the move.

Josh Rosen continues to get hammered, and some even thought by his former college head coach, Jim Mora, about his personality and off the field interests.

It seems pretty petty to get a college student fired from his job, just because he made a joke about needing better defense.

Summer is almost over — and at long last, the College Football Betting Season is about to get started.

«The three months of high school season, as soon as it starts, everyone forgets about the club mindset and going to college and trying to get scholarships, being recruited, all that,» Mustangs senior Sarah Arnaudon said.

I don't know much about the plagiarism claims but I got to work a little bit with your former college president while I was at UT - Austin.

I'm sure there will be a vocal minority that does not want the fee, but there is plenty of support to get it done and most students don't think critically about the current costs of attending school, especially when those who use student loans to pay for college won't see the actual cost until after they graduate.

If that is not enough to get you really excited about College Football Playoff 2014, check this out; Condy Rice!