Sentences with phrase «from his classmates at»

He compared the support he got from his classmates at Jones High School to «being like a basketball star that aced tests instead of dunking in basketball games.»

This month I received some questions from students in the Aurora Game Development Club as part of my being a virtual guest speaker via Skype, and separately from a classmate at Georgia Tech that needed answers about a career path for a class (it's a different set than what Matt D. recently asked, though where... Read more»

Not exact matches

With my $ 500,000, the $ 12 million note from Shell, and the $ 10 million loan from ARCO, I was able to persuade one of my former classmates at Wharton, who was now the executive vice president of Union Bank in Los Angeles, to loan me the remaining $ 20 million.

While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

I saw a wonderful example of this principle on Monday when five teams of my «Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management» students at Babson College tried to convince their skeptical classmates to buy from their businesses.

As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Pandey befriended an American classmate from Arizona, Vincent Sanchez - Gomez.

My first business, when I was in high school, was selling a toy that I had imported from Greece on a holiday to my classmates at school when I was about 13.

Stephen's early years at Clongowes are marked by the physical and emotional torment of his classmates and several of the priests; those days away from home are hard for the reader to bear.

One, Saeid Rezaie, is a classmate from her days at Pahlavi University, now called Shiraz University.

At one of the first team meetings his players raved about the kid who had just transferred in from nearby Santaluces High, after watching video clips of their new classmate.

As a freshman at University, Dunleavy started on the varsity and became close with the team's sixth man, classmate Fred Bell, a scholarship kid from Milwaukee.

Later, as a student in ROTC, I spent three years on the color guard, skipping tailgates to present the colors at windswept Big Ten football games, where my drunken classmates watched from the stands.

While the school is a Catholic school, it is separate from the Archdiocese and is governed like any other independent private school so our kids will make their sacraments at Sacred Heart but have many classmates from outside their own religious tradition (around 30 percent of the student body is not Catholic).

Jabari, a young kid from Chicago, is good at many things; among them, freestyling, art and making his classmates laugh.

If your child is receiving the cold shoulder at school from friends, former friends or from classmates, it could make for difficult times at home.

And I will never accept the idea that it's ok for children from poorer backgrounds to do worse at school than their wealthier classmates.

As the sound of students coming back from lunch filled the hallways, Caroline Skahen, a fifth - grader at Jamesville - Dewitt Middle School and her classmates were in the computer lab, quietly focused on their screens.

The late Captain Mahama's year group from St. John's School, Sekondi, has urged against the politicization of the death of their classmate who was murdered at Denkyira - Obuasi in an incident that shocked the nation.

Jaclyn Corin, Ryan Deitsch and Alfonso Calderon, along with their classmates from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, listen as fellow student Lorenzo Prado speaks at a press conference recalling the day of the shooting.

A native of Queens, and the oldest of three children born to immigrants from Taiwan, she had intended to become a teacher, and was well liked but regarded as serious and low - key at Stuyvesant High School, said Councilwoman Jessica S. Lappin, a classmate.

Then in 1987 MacCready got a call from an old Caltech classmate at Hughes Aircraft.

I was constantly paranoid that my classmates were staring at me, so all of the stress from that — on top of my academic worries like final exams — was taking its toll.

Compared to non-meditating classmates, students at a California university retained more information from lectures and scored better on quizzes when they had meditated before class.

A study from Pediatrics, published in March 2008, looked at 2,000 teenagers and found that teens who ate breakfast weighed less, exercised more and ate healthier food than their classmates who didn't eat breakfast

Nice looking recipe, But I can't say «how nice or funny of you to rip off a page from a magazine»... Because I'm reminded of how a classmate rips off a page from a library book and I told her she shouldn't do that and she looks at me as if I'm the biggest idiot in the world.

I even knew some of my classmates at school were Catholic, but that still had no connection to my life as a child growing up in a relatively impoverished village where most of the families I knew were struggling to get by from day to day.

INQ7 — Feb 26 — A 15 - year - old student was barred from school after she admitted that she, and two classmates, created an account for their «enemy» at"Friendster.com,» where they wrote testimonials full of obscenities and vulgarities maligning her reputation.

And there's a new love interest, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), a classmate of Parker's who moonlights (implausibly) as an intern at genetics giant Oscorp, where Dr Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans) dreams of regenerating his arm from lizard DNA despite the increasingly capricious demands of old man Osborn himself.

At their 10th high school reunion, schlubby Zack goes after a married former classmate, while Miri humiliates herself over studly Bobby (Brandon «Superman» Routh), a porn star, who's back from L.A. with his gay lover (Mac spokesman Justin Long).

This sequel to the 1999 hit that aspired to be the new PORKY»S — but was really the new FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH — finds the Michigan teens back from college on their first summer break: well - meaning mope Jim (Jason Biggs); sensitive jock Oz (Chris Klein); sophisticate - wannabe Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), who remains obsessed with a classmate's randy mother following their fling in the first film; and Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), the nice, regular guy audiences are meant to identify with.

After the mysterious murder of their friend and classmate Kevin Broadus (Kemp), they defy the authorities and put themselves at risk to uncover the truth from the lies and rumors.

SYNOPSIS: Carrie White is a shy teenager who endures a daily ritual of bullying from her classmates who torment her mercilessly at school, while also being subjective to repeated abuse from her religious fanatic -LSB-...]

One of the comic grace notes in this feud involves Max's friendship with Dirk Calloway (Mason Gamble), a much younger classmate at Rushmore, who spies Herman emerging from Rosemary's house, blocks his car when he's leaving, announces, «I know about you and the teacher,» and spits with fury on the hood of Herman's car.

At her new high school, the socially - awkward 17 year - old proves to be pretty popular, and finds herself being courted by classmates representing a variety of familiar teensploitation archetypes, from the handsome hunk (Michael Welch) to the nerdy Asian (Justin Chon) to the jive black guy (Gregory Tyree Boyce).

But Ren convinces his classmates that music is a celebration — and the preacher's daughter Ariel (played at Pilot Arts by Taylor Edwards) helps him argue his case with verses from the Bible.

Ruthie's struggles to fit in at a new school, the ease with which she gets the approval of a Queen Bee classmate (using the tactics she learned from watching her manipulative mother), are intriguing, but dropped in favor of following Rita through her addiction and recovery issues.

At school the next day, Cleatus earns recognition from his classmates but objections from the basketball team, all of whom believe he was the one in the feathered costume.

Simon (Jason Bateman, quite good as a character whose offhand sarcasm is just the tip of the iceberg of his true nature), the former classmate, and his wife Robyn (Rebecca Hall, who remains consistently dependable at playing characters who are vulnerable without having the strength sapped from them) have bought a house in the suburbs.

At the beginning of class the next day, give your class 5 — 10 minutes to review what was posted online, and then have each student share either one lingering question or a new idea that came from a classmate.

As he walks away from the camera, he looks at his classmates and shakes his head.

It was clear to me and my classmates 40 years ago, as we gazed out the window during English class in our all - boys high school (a Catholic seminary) and watched the teenage kids from town «making out» on a stone wall; at least it was clear to Father Ignatius, who would threaten a «bastinado with salt rubbed in the wounds» if we didn't focus on the sentence that needed diagramming.

This tool can also be used to connect with former colleagues, friends you met at a conference or classmates from your education program.

Pupils from low income families had a 29 per cent chance of being rated below average at reading by teachers, compared to 20 per cent of equally able classmates from high income backgrounds.

This too can put them at risk of abuse or exploitation, not only from online predators, but also from classmates and other young people their own age.

They also received donations from the classmates of Kavazanjian's fiancé, who had been a student at Tufts University's Fletcher School.

Look for opportunities to assign collaborative writing projects, or at least make them an option, so that ELLs can more easily get assistance from classmates.

Over 170,000 children and young people have directly benefited from the programmes, with children typically making up to 50 % more progress at school than their classmates.

There's Erik Benner, a Texas history teacher and coach who has to work another job at a big - box store to pay his bills, even if it means he barely sees his wife and imperils their marriage; Jonathan Dearman, who decides to join his family's real estate business even if teaching is what truly fulfills him; Brooklynite Jamie Fidler, who's juggling many roles, too, the biggest of which is new motherhood; and Rhena Jansey, a Harvard University graduate who faces skepticism about her chosen vocation from former classmates who've picked more lucrative, high - profile jobs.

But students at HGSE are not just studying hard; they are also engaging in wonderfully stimulating conversations with their classmates who hail from wide - ranging backgrounds and have equally diverse interests.

We all know a few teachers are just plain bad; students in those classes would be much better off learning from a competent or superior teacher in a slightly larger class — and the students in that class would suffer little (if at all) from having one or two more classmates.