Sentences with phrase «first person in my family»

He was the first person in his family to graduate from college with a bachelor's degree and the first person in his family to start a business.

On May 18, 2017, I became the first person in my family to graduate from college!

Without Laurene's help, Ms. Castro said, she might not have become the first person in her family to graduate from college.

Ms. Banks, who attended the University of Pennsylvania on grants and financial aid, was the first person in her family to earn a college degree; she graduated magna cum laude and met her husband on her first day there.

As the first person in my family to use cloth diapers I had no one to explain to me all the different types, how they worked, what were the differences.

This is what my mother did when I was in Tenth Grade, as a result of her doing that and making the school system put me in a different school where I was safer, I went from being, almost a high school dropout, to being the first person in my family to graduate from college.

There are always moments where kids can drop out, especially kids from low - income neighbourhoods where they're the first person in their family to go to college.

For his part, Schreibman argues that his upbringing — he was the first person in his family to go to college — and his legal work on security issues make him best suited for an election he predicts will be about the economy and national security.

Neurobiologist and native New Yorker Adam Gazzaley was the first person in his family to go to college.

► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column, biologist Mary Poffenroth described the challenges and rewards of being the first person in her family to go to college.

As part of these ongoing research activities, the DNA of Dravet patients without SCN1A mutations was analyzed by trio exome sequencing, which searches across the active parts of the genome for de novo mutations that have arisen in these patients (de novo mutations are DNA copying errors that occur in the parents» gametes or in the fertilized egg or embryo, resulting in the afflicted family member being the first person in their family to have this genetic condition).

Being the first person in my family to attend college, I also had no idea what college was really like, and I honestly believed I could work full - time and carry a full course load.

Looking back, either program was prestigious, but the fact that I was the first person in my family to go to a major academic university and then to an Ivy League school, was the «American Dream.»

Complicating matters, I am the first person in my family to ever attend college, much less graduate school, so I have little or no support from my family when it comes to either financial or emotional issues.

Im an aspiring beauty school student i want to be the first person in my family to complete schooling but finances have put a hault on that.

All black and Latino college students aren't necessarily the first person in their families to complete college.

I was not the first person in my family to receive a graduate degree, either.

Sealy, the child of immigrants from Panama and Barbados, is a senior at the Academy of the Pacific Rim in Boston, and for the past three years he has attended CSA in hopes of becoming the first person in his family to go to college.

As the first person in my family to get a college degree (and later a law degree so that I could go on to work as a civil rights attorney), I worked hard to get here and I make no apologies for wanting the best for my son.

These experiences, she believes, will best prepare her students to become that first person in their family to attend college.

At Ricards Lodge students are selected to join the Aspiration's Project based on their attainment and effort grades as well as those who have the potential to be the first person in their family to go to university.

«As the first person in my family to graduate from college, I'm extremely honored to be named to the 21st Century Education Commission.

With the guidance of Joseph Owens, a young Catholic missionary, Jones applied to Holy Cross College in Massachusetts, where he was accepted and awarded a scholarship - becoming the first person in his family to attend college.

They were well educated; both had gone to college, but Cliff was the first person in his family to earn a PhD.

And in May of 2003, LaTosha Hunter was the first of Brown's «babies,» as well as the first person in her family, to graduate from college.

I was the first person in my family to go to college, so I did not have outside guidance.

I'm the first person in my family to graduate from college.

Asking money form my family seam so hard since am the first person in my family to even go to collage.

«As the first person in my family to go to college and as a student who has to work while studying full - time, this scholarship means so much to me,» Ms. Scardina says.

My parents are both working - class; I'm the first person in my family to graduate with a four - year degree.

That research shows that many legal secretaries are the first people in their families who have attended university.

She's the first person in our family to graduate from university.

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He became the first person to graduate college in his family.

For instance, an Ivy League alum with a high GPA is great, but even better is the person who was the first in the family to go to college and did well while working an extra job.

It was the first time since the incident that a member of the family spoke publicly in person.

But the first people that you can turn to for help in spreading the word are your friends and your family.

Second, built on the premier's timetable Site C will lose $ 800 million in its first four years of operation, hurting families paying their Hydro bills and hurting important industries and the people they employ.

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They've still got an uphill battle to make sure that they meet the very stringent environmental conditions put forward in their partnership with the Squamish First Nation, but the proponents have respectfully engaged with First Nations, will provide job training and good, family - supporting jobs to local people, and will proceed in a way that minimizes climate changing emissions at the plant.

Stealing cars at 13, in and out of jail in his teens, killed his first person when he was 17 and got away with it, used and sold drugs to kids, killed an entire family just for fun, and then we'll say that was the last thing before he headed off to his ultimate plan.

«The first time you're born, you identify the people in the room as your family.

The major contribution of interpersonal psychology to a comprehensive philosophy of human nature is that what a person becomes is decisively influenced by his relationships with other persons — chiefly those in his family in the first few years of life.

In royal families five - year - old girls were betrothed to six - year - old boys as a matter of political expediency.26 Wives were property first and only secondarily persons with freedom to love.

What I do know is that Rick is correct in that had people simply honored their marriage committments to begin with and put the supposed love of their life first rather than adopt the Hollywood lifestyle of divorce families woud be stronger and kids healthier.

Reading the post and the first comment reminded me of a family member in the medical profession who in the 1970's told a group of us at a family gathering how eight people in her church would die.

From the first, he took the unusual position that since a sick person is in a peculiarly vulnerable situation, the health - care delivery system should place as few extraneous demands upon the patient and his family as possible.

Participating for the first time in a mass sponsored by Dignity, «I knew that I had found my own people, a family that shared my particular crosses and that promised me a taste of resurrection joys.»

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Because we all know atheists aren't really Americans and have no right to participate in any national ceremony, regardless of wether they lost friends or family on 9/11, without being coerced into passively approving the Christian values that got all those people killed in the first place.

Last I knew, the only person who ended up well in the entire mess was the first husband of wife # 2, who found a wonderful wife and remarried surrounded by family, friends and church.