Sentences with phrase «even as a college student»

Having some cash set aside in an emergency fund is essential, even as a college student.

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Look at how we expect college students to declare a major as soon as possible, for example, even though they haven't even had a chance to really explore the world on their own at all.

Borrowing by students and their families has picked up steam over the years as social and economic pressure grows to obtain a college education to get ahead, even as states reduce their financial support for colleges and colleges raise their tuition.

And as the table shows, even early in these young households» post college lives, the effect of student debt on assets is already becoming apparent.

And yet, as I progressed through high school and college, got a job in full - time student ministry, and even traveled through Europe for a few weeks, checking each of these dreams off my list (sans Aussie heartthrob), I found myself at age twenty - four absorbed in feelings that I didn't expect to come for at least another fifteen years, if ever.

I was helping students start exciting new lives at college even as their parents were, in a sense, mourning the loss of their children to adulthood, and as I was more and more coming to realize that we all were going to mourn the loss of Susan.

All this «having» students do this, «asking» them to do that, and «instructing» them to do the other thing, as anyone knows with as much experience teaching college students as Professor Neuliep has (and I have over thirty years» experience myself), is going to result, some of the time, in compliance --- sometimes immediate compliance, even from inwardly squeamish students.

TIP: If you're a college student in a dorm room, (or even someone who stays at the office all day) do yourself a favor and ask a loved one for a Nutribullet as a gift to take with you (or even buy one yourself if you have some money saved up).

If you're a college student, just out of college, or just starting on your own and need some cook - and bakeware (or even if you're an established cook, but need a pan for a new recipe, and don't know that you'll be using it often enough to justify buying an expensive one), this seems to be a fine place to start as it is nonstick and very affordable.

So easy to make, even a college student such as myself can make it.

teachers and students see senior year as a break before college and a reward for 11 long years of school, even though it may not be that difficult.

The cats were NOT my idea but my, at the time, roommate desperately wanted cats and I do love cats so I said that even though I thought it was a bad idea getting pets as a 21 year old college student in an apartment if she wanted to get a cat I wouldn't mind.

Entering college as an athlete often means arriving on campus early and having a built - in group of colleagues and companions, even before the majority of students arrive in the dorms.

Consequently, parents of college students need to discuss bullying issues with their kids even as they leave for college.

And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

Members of my local twins club have found college students, especially nursing students, to be great as part time babysitters or even night nannies.

Lastly, for the high - school and college students out there -LCB- and maybe even for you parents too -RCB-, the «How to Ditch Your Parents» book comes with loads of great advice for living on your own, preparing your child for the working world, and advice that you as a parent may think is common knowledge.

* What happens to some students with the grades to now get into a SUNY college as they face stiffer competition for admission even to so - called «safety schools» by students who now might choose to go to a private college?

The driving force for each candidate buckles down to: Affordable health care, free and reduced college and even serving the working class, as well as, for those students in attendance who put on these events, they say it's important to get to know their potential representative on a personal level.

That college trustees, themselves some of our more prominent citizens, may begin acting more like stewards of the institution they serve — yea, even as student advocates!

Cuomo won his push for a free tuition for public college students from households with incomes of up to $ 125,000 — even as CUNY and SUNY were granted permission to raise their tuitions by $ 200.

Cuomo won his push for free tuition for public college students from households with annual incomes of up to $ 125,000 — even as CUNY and SUNY were granted permission to raise their tuitions by $ 200 a year.

Rezende enrolled in Hunter College as a biology major and realized even more that she enjoyed interacting with other students.

Katie Woolley is a couple of years behind Cooke — a Ph.D. student at the college — but she is already just as cynical: «Before you've even finished your Ph.D.,» she says, «you know the odds are against you.»

I started sometime during college because, as a student who had sat through innumerable lectures, I enjoyed and appreciated when professors included rare moments of levity to make a point, enrich a metaphor, or even just keep us awake.

Even programs that link different types of institutions — such as the Bridges to the Baccalaureate Degree from community colleges to 4 - year institutions, and the Bridges to the Doctoral Degree from master's to doctoral programs — don't promise students a slot as they advance.

«Our new material provides support for the liquid silicone as it is 3D printing, allowing us create very complex structures and even encapsulated parts out of silicone elastomer,» said lead author Christopher O'Bryan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral student in UF's Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and lead author on the paper.

Giving back to your community is very important, but if mentoring is indeed a motivating factor for you, then, as a graduate of both an HBCU (Spelman College) and a PWI (Georgia Tech), I would argue that the minority students at PWIs need your help even more than those at HBCUs.

TIP: If you're a college student in a dorm room, (or even someone who stays at the office all day) do yourself a favor and ask a loved one for a Nutribullet as a gift to take with you (or even buy one yourself if you have some money saved up).

On other people, even with similar pieces, this outfit could come across as college student instead of chic mom.

These would be fun to take to your next football game or used as décor in a sports themed bedroom or even in the classroom of your favorite teacher or as dorm room décor for your college student.

But as a college student I couldn't justify getting glasses as I still felt insecure in them so I didn't get any new ones with a new prescription til I actually met my husband and would you believe it he wore glasses as well as contacts and almost forced me to get new glasses and wear them, even if only at night a few hours before bed.

Even though Florida and Texas have the most colleges on the list, the University of New York still had all of the students that signed up as sugar babies.

Julia Ducournau's morbid coming of age drama stars Garance Marillier as a young veterinary student, reserved and uncertain, who had never even swallowed a piece of meat in her life until an unexpected hazing ritual on her first day of college.

The second part of the seminar is more practical, as students work on their resume, write thank you letters, learn how to do an interview correctly, or even research college programs that might be of interest to them based on their internship experience.

It could make college admissions an even tougher hill to climb, as less - privileged students compete with gap - yeared peers who can demonstrate a range of skills and experience.

Even when students are accepted to college, as many as 40 percent (particularly students from low - income families) fail to matriculate to any postsecondary institution, a phenomenon referred to as summer melt.

Clifford Adelman, a senior associate with the department's office of research, said that students typically are required to take core courses for graduation and that the obscure courses that critics like Ms. Cheney cite as evidence that colleges ignore the basics may not even be offered, even though they are listed in course catalogues.

Many of these schools are graduating at least 80 percent of their students and sending them off to college, even while facing significant challenges, such as serving high levels of low - income, minority, and special - needs students.

And sometimes, they even come back for their first job: A number of participating students have worked as tellers to put themselves through college.

Several institutions do not disclose the fact that their faculty to student ratios can even be as tremendous as 1:80, yet this is a common standard — a standard that both prospective college students and faculty members must realize before signing on board.IPEDS Policy and Internal Organizational Governance Structures in Higher Education «Organizations do not change until the individuals in it change» (Hall & Hord, 2011, p. 7).

A. Chemistry has a reputation as a «hard» subject, and it is a difficult science for many students — and adults, even adults with college degrees — to understand, because it's based on abstract concepts, about what it's impossible to see, like the structure of matter and interactions on a molecular scale.

After dispensing with Greek and Latin early last century, progressives campaigned relentlessly to discredit all the basic components of liberal education, condemning modern languages, history, geography, literature, higher mathematics, and laboratory sciences as elitist, inappropriate, and even damaging for all but a small number of college - bound students.

Even as the numbers and diversity of students taking college admissions tests are rising, average scores on the tests are increasing.

The Obama administration's proposal to make federal funding for disadvantaged students contingent on states» adoption of reading and math standards that prepare students for college or a career has drawn sharp criticism from groups representing grassroots educators and state lawmakers, even as some governors and members of Congress appear open to the idea.

She began, as well, to seek out students at colleges she was interested in attending, even opening up a new account on Facebook, a site more heavily used by college students, to network.

As a result, rural students, unlike urban kids, can't get exposure to broadening experiences including such important things as visiting college campuses or even interacting with adults with college degreeAs a result, rural students, unlike urban kids, can't get exposure to broadening experiences including such important things as visiting college campuses or even interacting with adults with college degreeas visiting college campuses or even interacting with adults with college degrees.

Although the college - sending rates of the highest - performing high schools in the sample are low relative to Texas as a whole, our findings suggest that offering eligibility for automatic admission may not be effective at accomplishing even the narrow goal of increasing access to the top public universities for students in the most - disadvantaged settings.

And as David Miller notes in his 2014 eLearning article Online Learning Advantages: Why Online Learning Offers Plenty of Incentives, besides physical college campuses often feeling too far and few between, living in a rural community «can be even more difficult for students to find experts in the fields they're interested in».

But in 1985, starting in Minnesota, states began looking at dual enrollment as a way to prepare even average students for college and to move nonacademic - minded kids into career and technical education.