Sentences with phrase «first went to university»

However, from 1976 when I first went to university and studied towards a theoretical physics degree, I moved deep into abstraction with my art and have been there ever since.

When I decided to go to grad school in the U.S. in 2005, I was a lot smarter than when I first went to university.

When he first went to the University of Rochester, he was unaware that his background as an electrical engineer meant he could not switch to optics, as he wanted.

Not exact matches

McGregory says that the relationships that she created during her first summer transcended the internship and she had daily text conversations with her Facebook friends even after they all went back to their respective universities.

At the University of Texas» McCombs School of Business, the percentage of students who took jobs in the technology and finance fields was «neck - to - neck» this year for the first time, said Velma Arney, McComb's director of BBA career services, with 12 % of students heading into technology and 13 % going into banking.

I went to the University of Oregon to study business and computer information technology, right before joining my first startup in the video game industry.

The university's contributions go well beyond funding, as evidenced by the affordable housing it provides for community residents; the program it sponsors to allow university staff to serve as volunteer firefighters in Princeton; the students who help staff the first aid and rescue squad; the auditing program it offers to community residents; the intellectual, cultural and athletic events it makes available to community residents; and it supports entities like McCarter Theatre and Garden Theatre.

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

Sitting in his office on the shore of Seattle's Lake Washington, the man who dropped out of Harvard University nearly four decades ago and went on to build the world's first software fortune is more relaxed than he was.

It Starts with a Buzz The University of Life Service, Service, Service What Business Should You Be In When is the right time to Start a business Don't Be a Flake Get It Right from the Start - Build Your Business like an Egyptian Pyramid My First Business Venture How I Started My Business Where It Went Wrong Making a Mistake Don't Burn Your Bridges Damage Limitation and Control How I Moved On Controlling Your Financial Exposure Getting Help with Your Idea How do You Research Your Idea Why You Have a Business Always Be Prepared Vertical or Horizontal Vision What Direction to Follow Leadership and Employing Staff Guiding Your Management Team Enjoy Your Work and Your Life Get Your Products and Services Right Low Cost Products and Service is not the Way Ahead Do You Need a Business Partner Business Expansion If You Want to Diversify, of What Should You Be Aware More Examples of Business Expansion The Importance of Good Time Keeping Time Management Real Estate Investment Finding the Solution

Other options are available also such as going to a community college first to cut costs or working at the university to help pay college expenses.

Both my wife, Lorena, and I went to school there, and she jokes that the first time she heard Georgetown called a Jesuit and Catholic university was in the material sent to her parents to get them to pay for her freshman year.

Religion News Service: Muslim scholar wins prestigious Grawemeyer Award For the first time, the University of Louisville's prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Religion, a $ 100,000 cash prize, will go to a female Muslim scholar.

Kenyon went to the University of Michigan, where she first encountered Hall in 1969 when she took his large, lecture - style poetry class.

A Columbia University graduate quits his first finance job for a go at community organizing - the beginning of a political life that leads to the White House.

It is a hard feeling to be 23, living at home and going through my first year of university.

When my hubby and I go on vacation, the first thing we do upon returning home is to go down to El Patio by the university and get something smothered in chile.

Coming from a background of a family that never went on vacation and where I was the first person to set foot in a university, it still sometimes seems unreal to me.

Pembroke will not be the first at Oxford University to go down the meat free route.

Our MMU Taekwondo club has had a year they'll never forget, going from strength to strength and we have now become the first ever university team to be invited to the Taekwondo World Championships, taking place in Holland in 2017.

James Gary Joseph Kennedy Jr., age 20, is a forward on the University of Missouri basketball team that recently went to the finals of the NCAA Midwest Regional playoffs after winning the Big Eight Conference championship, the school's first outright title in that league since 1930, when it was composed of six teams.

Originally recruited by Northeastern State University, at his graduation in 2012, Tsalidi told the Cherokee One Feather, an online tribal newspaper, he was going to be the first American Indian in the NBA.

He'd coached Division I at New Mexico State and San Jose State, and would go on to win two national championships, the first as quarterback coach at Division III Linfield College and the second at Southern Oregon University, an NAIA school.

«I remember going to the first Bengal training camp in 1968, when I was a senior at the University of Cincinnati, and being surprised at how slow and overweight the club looked.

Lauren, now a senior at Richmond University in Virginia, went on to star at Heritage where she was the first golfer in school history to qualify for the California Interscholastic Federation Northern California Tournament, the qualifier for the CIF State Championship.

The First - Class facilities at the University Parks have been graced by some of the most famous cricketers of all time, producing many Blues who have gone on to represent their country such as Imran Khan, Douglas Jardine, and M.J.K Smith

Potanin has also funded the Russian International Olympic University, the country's first sports - management academy, to be housed in a cluster of four high - rise buildings going up a block from the waterfront in central Sochi.

I went to University for the first time at 48 and gained an honours degree and I am now in the final stages of a PhD in biomedical science (I was a nurse before illness).

She then went on to get her teaching credential from California State University Long Beach and taught first grade for many years before deciding to stay home with her own children.

When I was about 20 years old I moved out and into my first apartment while I went to university.

Parrott, co-director at the Center for Relationship Development at Seattle Pacific University, remembers thinking about this issue with her husband five years ago, when their first child was 3 - years - old: «My husband and I hired a babysitter and went to a romantic mountain retreat 30 minutes from our home in Seattle,» she says.

The first time I went off script was when I turned down a scholarship to Washington University in St. Louis at the last minute — during freshmen orientation weekend.

He went on to graduate at the top of his class with first class honours in Politics and Modern History at Manchester University, winning the Robert McKenzie Prize for political science, his first book contract and election to the (sabbatical) leadership of the students» union, Labour Students» National Committee and NUS National Council.

If you could clarify a couple of things about your first and third bullet point: 1) Merseyside is one of the most reliably Labour places in the country so does the example given of inability to go to university apply?

In the end it built a coalition out of successful bankers living at the top of glass towers, middle - aged hippies and younger people, perhaps the first in their family to go to university.

We're trying to sort it out in a way which is as fair and as progessive as possible and doesn't discourage people, particularly from low - income backgrounds, from aspiring to go to university in the first place because they're so intimidated by the legacy of debt that they presently get when they graduate from university.»

Its first leader was a don at a fashionable London University, its current leader went to public school and made his money in the City.

Many were the first in their family to go to university, whilst over 30 candidates did not go to university at all: many of the new intake will be the very embodiment of social mobility as envisaged by Margaret Thatcher.

John went on to play for American University and was a two time First Team All Colonial Conference Soccer Player.

The daughter of a seamstress and a print - worker, she was the first from her family to go to university.

Tinubu then went to the U.S. in 1975, where he studied first at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago, in Illinois, and then at Chicago State University, where he graduated with Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting in 1979.

Speaking at a Remain event in Stansted Airport, Mr Osborne said: «As someone who studied history at university, you always go to the first - hand sources.

However, being the first student going through this programme in 1998 - 99, the reality was that I had to pass quite a few university administrative obstacles in both France and Hungary.

They found some minor numerical discrepancies in his data, which you're going to find in most people's data if you look far enough, and they claimed that he had committed scientific fraud and they brought charges against the University of Pittsburgh, all without first mentioning their affiliation.

«Ocean ridges are the most dynamic places on our planet, and this is the first cabled observatory that goes out to one,» says oceanographer Peter Rona, who uses NEPTUNE to study the dynamics of the deep - sea volcanoes from his lab at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

The research, led by Moriah Thomason, a developmental neuroscientist at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and published this week in Scientific Reports, provides the first direct evidence of altered brain function in fetuses that go on to be born prematurely.

Opening a field notebook at random, the Yale University evolutionary ornithologist puts his finger on the day — Nov. 17, 1974 — when he first went bird - watching at the ocean and added 20 new species to his «life list,» bringing the count to 182.

It is the first biological flag to predict the risk of an individual going on to develop depression, says Barbara Sahakian at the University of Cambridge, one of the study's authors.

In fact, at first, my title that year was going to have been Visiting Lecturer, which would have been all the more inappropriate because I was primarily employed at that university and wasn't visiting at all.

«This is the first time he's signaled that he's going to champion global HIV in this way,» says Jennifer Cohn, an assistant professor of infectious diseases at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and a policy adviser in Nairobi for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; also known as Doctors Without Borders).