They weren't milking the cows at age five, but were going to school, where they'd stay, costing mom and dad, perhaps not being productive till
they got out of grad school at age 26.
When
I got out of grad school, I had a rude awakening.
When
I got out of grad school I hated all the music that my program wanted me to write.
Khalfani - Cox: Literally only credit card debt — we're not talking about my student loans here, OK, when
I got out of grad school at USC.
Not exact matches
Angry and sad, I washed up on the shore
of a place I hated — a place
of failure and where people who
get kicked
out of grad school go to live.
In
grad school, I went into regular biology and
got out of phylogenetic systematics, the study and classification
of the distribution and diversity
of organisms.
But once you
get out off the
grad school / postdoc treadmill, money is not the major determining factor
of job satisfaction.
I've had artificial trees in the past — as a penniless
grad school student I've celebrated Christmas with a 2 - foot tree — but I always
get the biggest thrill
out of adventuring to a farm and picking
out a live tree to chop down.
I'm a first year student in
grad school,
getting my MBA and have an undergrad degree in biotech... I currently have around $ 50,000 in student debt and I have forecasted a total net present value
of my debt to be around $ 75,000 when I finish... I also was foolish enough to take
out an $ 10,000 loan to
get a motorcycle because apparently my «debt» counts as «good credit» and since i've been dying to
get a bike, they allowed me too... so now I pay off my motorcycle interest payments with student loans... interesting huh?
To the US Academy, graduates» blood is on your hands — yours and all your minions», in their infinitely variable guises (the loan officers and administrators, high
school advisors who push - push - push college, university faculty and administrators who ply with spoken promises
of a far better tomorrow post-graduation, and the online «experts» who keep parroting the hackneyed, specious line that college
grads earn more (that, I'm confident, is an illusion
of the social backgrounds
of those who're employed, as the immensely wealthy father
of a good friend
of mine pointed
out when he recently commented when I shared with him about the job insecurity - college degree paradox that he'd simply «manage my children's trust funds and
get them placed at friends» companies.»
Coming
out of undergrad at Connecticut College, where I
got a dual degree in art history and French, and then finishing
grad school in 1998 at NYU, where I concentrated on critical theory and American studies, I never imagined having the opportunity to work with the mentors I was fortunate enough to have in the years that immediately followed — namely, Lowery Stokes Sims, Thelma Golden, Karin Higa, and Li - lan, all profoundly brilliant and creative women
of color.
When I was in
grad school, someone told me that a good way to
get the errors
out of your work is to show the work to your biggest critics.
I plan to
get my yard and garden in shape and to help move my daughter
out of the house to
Grad school.