Sentences with phrase «junior year because»

Toni Greaves for NPR hide caption itoggle caption Toni Greaves for NPR Colleen Frainey, 16, of Tualatin, Ore., cut back on advanced placement classes in her junior year because the stress was making her physically ill.

Colleen Frainey, 16, of Tualatin, Ore., cut back on advanced placement classes in her junior year because the stress was making her physically ill.

I had to do it in my junior year because I had applied to do a combined BA / MA in political economy in my senior year.

She was forced to sit out her entire junior year because of section transfer rules.

Not exact matches

«I just think it's so important in this time because we really have such a big and important stage to have our voices heard,» said Aidan Murphy, a 16 - year - old junior who's organizing the walkout at Quincy High School in Quincy, Massachusetts.

So as my last effort to finish what I started, I applied to study abroad in Spain my Junior year to get better at Spanish (because clearly my English wasn't awesome) and to hit refresh.

Because I lived in my sorority house during my junior and senior years of college, I had to fend for myself, thus the teasing about my cooking took place.

Montgomery brought in a new defensive coordinator, and all of the freshmen and sophomores who got lit up last year are now sophomores and juniors, so it is conceivable that the defense will get a little better, if only because it can't get worse.

It's been expected for a while - partly because they've been doing a decent job this year, partly because there's a massive gap on the Red Bull junior ladder - but it's now been officially confirmed that Brendon Hartley and Pierre Gasly will continue with Toro Rosso in 2018.

While Peoples - Jones didn't perform at The Opening because of injury, he showcased his abilities winning the Nike Sparq Challenge as a junior last year.

Walters, a sweet - shooting 6» 4» junior transfer from Northwestern and perhaps the Jayhawks» most important newcomer this year, got into a heated argument with ESPN announcer Dick Vitale at practice the day before the game; he was upset because Vitale had criticized his decision to leave Northwestern.

Right let's get Ibra but not get Martinez because at 5 years Ibra's junior he «needs time» to adjust to the league.

In high school Jackson did things like twist his ankle while winning the state title in the triple jump (48» 8 1/4») and then come back the same day to set a state record (9.54) in the 100 - yard dash; like throw a discus 149 feet without spinning his body, because he'd never been taught the proper form; like win the state decathlon crown his junior and senior years without running the mile, the final event, because «distance is the only thing I hate about track.»

Patrick was the incumbent # 1 since basically his 16 - year - old season, but he fell off because of injuries in the draft year and Hischier dominating WJC & juniors.

But for the majority of recruits, the time between National Signing Day that happens during their junior year of high school and the end of their senior football season is the most crucial part of their recruitment process because of all of the key moments that happen.

Interestingly, he said he has not heard much from Florida and Florida State, which might be because he played his sophomore and junior years for Houston (Texas) Clear Lake, where his uncle coached.

«I always want to beat our rival because of how they ended our city title run last year,» said Ethan Anderson, a talented returning junior guard.

But if the 16 - year - old hopes to showcase his talents to college scouts offering scholarships, the Rolling Meadows resident will have to spend his senior year in Nebraska, Minnesota or Iowa because the Chicago area doesn't have a junior hockey league.

I suggested adoption and he did not like that option because «he did not want junior showing up on his doorstep 18 years from now.»

He has disclosed that he was expelled from school because he beat his ill - mannered teacher in his first year at Junior High School.

SAT scores among juniors rose last year but officials did not draw direct comparisons to 2016 because the test format fundamentally changed.

«So, in the last 5 years, before my government came, every year, over 100,000 young Ghanaian students were unable to transition from Junior High School to Senior High School, largely because of money.

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Because of California's new nonpartisan blanket primary, which allows the general election to be contested by the two highest vote - getters in the primary, regardless of party affiliation, [9] his opponent in the general election was Dublin city councilman Eric Swalwell, a fellow Democrat almost 50 years his junior.

Her two years as health secretary were turbulent and she survived a no - confidence vote in the Commons that was brought because of criticism of the applications system introduced to reduce the time taken by junior doctors to train as consultants not long before she quit.

(If promotion to the tenured ranks must occur within the first 7 years, then this issue may be moot, because the outcomes for a junior faculty member's trainees may not be known by that time.)

I'd have to say earning a soccer scholarship to Virginia Commonwealth University was a pretty big accomplishment but during my first year of competing in fitness, 2010, I won the overall bikini division at Junior Nationals which was special because that is when I earned my IFBB pro card!

Danielle makes me a little envious because if I had my life as together as she did in junior year I probably wouldn't have such a crazed life schedule now!

It was pretty short little speech — in fact, you just read most of it — but I felt that was an appropriate way to address things because, by the time students enter junior year of high school, they know how to behave, right?

Staffers also conduct summer, fall, and spring home visits between and during the sophomore and junior years to students who are at risk of not graduating because of deficiencies in course credits, the possibility of failing the state high school exit exam (a condition of graduation), or poor grades.

Because moving between schools is known to have a negative impact on student achievement, we also control for whether the student changed schools in the current year and whether that change was structural (for instance, the student moved to a junior high school from its feeder elementary school).

A guidance counselor at my school recommended I drop out of high school after my junior year to go to college because there was no way to test out.

The following year at her local junior high, Elaine found Algebra I to be a breeze because so much of the course content was on material she had learned the previous year.

The Minster Junior School fell from «outstanding» in 2010 to the bottom grade four years later because «too many pupils significantly underachieved», but it remains with Southwark Diocese.

An award - winning educator with two master's degrees, she recounted how despite her success, the warm embrace of her students and the appreciation of their parents, she was laid off five times in nine years at three different Los Angeles area schools only because she was junior to other teachers.

Klein graduated high school at 16, because, like me, he was placed in a New York City program that compressed three years of junior high school into two.

ISBE officials said the state - funded SAT is supposed to be given this school year — free of charge to high school juniors — though there are complications because of the state's budget standoff and other issues.

As I enter my 5th year, I continue to work with the STF program as much as possible because I am forever grateful for the experience and enjoy working with college juniors as they enter and begin their journey to change history.»

This is personally meaningful to me because I struggled in high school, skipping the last four or five weeks of my junior year (at Hillsboro High) and dropping out in the Fall semester of my senior year (at Hume Fogg).

«And that's because kids don't always start with us in 6th grade, they may come to us in their junior year and they are already behind and we have to help them catch up, and sometimes that requires them to essentially take more than six courses in the semester.

Students typically take the ACT in the spring of their junior year, because the content assessed is usually covered during the 11th grade.

«Jesse put up with a lot of bullshit from other car clubs because of that paint job,» says Tomas Vasquez, 65, president for the past 20 years of the Imperials, the legendary East L.A. lowrider club founded in the mid-1960s by Valadez and his younger brother, Armando, who was still in junior high school at the time.

But then, I took it seriously in my junior year, because it helped through my anxiety and depression.

Her favorite college class, «Myth and Literature» in junior year, which she had picked quite by chance because «Interpersonal Communication» was full.

You are buying them both for rental income and in the first few years that you own the rental property (or the first few years of a junior REIT), it always just so happens that the Depreciation & Amortization are large because the capital cost of the property is large.

The key thing is to start sooner versus later because if you think the cost of education is high now... just wait until your future high school junior / senior starts looking at their college options years from now.

@Joe: Value Line made me their junior gold analyst years ago because of my last name.

Alternatively, because the Fafsa uses prior - prior year data, you could wait to use grandparent - owned 529 accounts until the child's Junior year of college, when distributions will no longer affect aid.

GREENBLATT: Well, junior year, I read an article actually in Forbes Magazine about Ben Graham's stock picking formula, and it was really what they used to call net - net or stock selling below their liquidation value and it seems very simple to me because I was at Wharton at the time and they were learning efficient market theory and none of it resonated with me.

In the years that followed, Theodore was visiting several schools, amongst them the Black Mountain public school, which he left after one year due to its aggressive hierarchy, the Asheville Country Dayschool, the Warren Wilson Junior College, and finally the Putney School, which he considered «a little bit parallel to Black Mountain College» because of its arts and music lessons and its work programm.