Sentences with phrase «first person in one's 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.

Back in the day, I was the first person in my family to eat all of my Halloween candy every year!

«I'm the first person in my family to go to college,» Weil says.

With the support of her husband and two young daughters — Peyton, 7, and Ella Claire, 5 — Keshia's goal is to be the first person in her family to graduate from college.

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.

It is possible that a cleft chin will be inherited if one or both parents also have that feature but there are exceptions to the rule and your baby could be the first person in your family to ever have a cleft chin.

Mr. Briley was the first person in his family to attend college, hitchhiking from the family farm in Niota, Ill., to Regis College in Colorado.

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.

«I speak from my own experiences as a former schoolteacher, which I have mentioned on many occasions, and as the first person in my family to attend university - I know that I am not unique in that among hon. Members.

Since 2008, 96 % of the high school seniors in MAP's Growing Green program graduated on time and 95 % have gone onto college, often being the first person in their family to attend college.

I'm a grammar school boy; I was the first person in my family to go to university.

History had it that he was the first person in his family to gain access to western education.

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.

After three semesters at SFSU, I became the first person in my family to both attend and drop out of college.

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.

I was the first person in my family to be born in the states; so, I'm pretty Americanized.

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.

As the first person in my family to graduate from college, I have had opportunities and experiences I could never dream of as a child.

One of the great satisfactions that I have gotten out of being here at Gateway is in our first graduating class, 30 percent of the kids were the first person in their family to go on to postsecondary education.

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.

She's in her last year at school and approaching her exams - and, if all goes well, this autumn she has the ambition to become the first person in her family to go to university.

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.

He and his family moved to the United States from Venezuela when he was four and he will be the first person in his family to attend college.

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

Chanda broke through the intergenerational cycle of poverty and became the first person in her family to attend and complete college.

Aguero is the first person in his family to go to college, and he says he feels prepared to tackle that obstacle next.

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.

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.