Sentences with phrase «life than a college»

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«College grades,» Barker writes, «aren't any more predictive of subsequent life success than rolling dice.»

Students shouldn't borrow more in loans than they'll make in their first year of employment, said Jeff Selingo, author of «There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.»

As the scholar Eric St. John once wrote, «There is, perhaps, no college decision that is more thought - provoking, gut wrenching and rest - of - your - life oriented — or disoriented — than the choice of a major.»

Solid life experience outside the office can prepare you to handle the most difficult of challenges in the workplace, oftentimes better than a traditional internship or college coursework.

Starting in the mid-1980s, researchers from University College London spent twenty years examining the relationship between sleep patterns and life expectancy in more than 10,000 British civil servants.

My goal at age 44 is to get in the best shape of my life, even better than when I was a college athlete.

Then there are those who come to Disney as a College Program intern, or as a seasonal employee, and then come to the realization that they'd rather get free park admission for the rest of their lives than continue pursuing their education.

Kalin says 95 % of Etsy sellers are women (average age, 33), mostly stay - at - home moms and college students looking to supplement their income rather than make a full - time living.

«I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it,» said Mr. Gorman, who lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with his wife of more than 20 years, Penny, and their two college - age children.

And so when I read Ben Graham, sort of a light bulb went off just this little article and I started reading everything I could about what he had written, both security analysis and the intelligent investor, and eventually led my way to Warren Buffett and you know, sort of the rest is history, it's a very good age, you know I was younger than 21 at the time you know junior year of college to recognize that this was what I was going to be doing the rest my life.

There is opportunity for everybody, no matter where you live, you just have to be willing to work harder (and smarter) than everyone else, while my many of my friends in college worked at McDonald's and partied, I started my own custom harvesting business with loan for a 10 year old combine, and an old tandem axle truck.

The leftover cash is typically used for college living expenses, but some wily students think that investing in Ethereum or Ripple may be a better investment than a bachelor's degree in comparative English literature.

During the academic year, almost 20,000 students live here, but there is much more to Georgetown than just the college.

I had always been passionate about performing and theatre, but I realized during college that I craved a more stable career and lifestyle than the life of an actor.

It turns out that many of these guinea pigs are now professionals» «people who need money and have a lot of time to spare: the unemployed, college students, contract workers, ex-cons, or young people living on the margins who have decided that testing drugs is better than punching a clock with the wage slaves.»

Paul Anderson - Walsh made the comment after a report from University College London said that pensioners with a sense of meaning and purpose lived on average two years longer than those who didn't.

It's funny that you can have a much better sense now (and even when you were a college student) of what's important in life than your benighted Harvard Divinity professor.

College life is more ruthlessly segregated than that.

You people actually believe you have something with your almighty nothingness wonder??? Take your college degrees and books away and what do you have??? Your almighty nothingness, so please start reconciling with yourselves that your not going to amount to anything in life other than being piggy bank for the U.S. Govt.

The evidence strongly suggests that today's theological students are steered toward seminary as a result of post-college involvement in congregational life rather than by persons or studies in the college milieu.

Mary Ann Hinsdale, a theologian at Boston College, wondered what Francis» himself a member of a religious order» understood «of religious in North America» where, apparently, the consecrated life is exceptional and lived differently than the religious life in the rest of the world.

But the adulation that came Seeger's way in recent decades had less to do with his mastery of the five - string banjo and his song - writing than with his status in certain circles as a living martyr: the man who stiffed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), found himself blacklisted, and was reduced to performing on college campuses for a while.

That being said college kids are woefully unprepared for it and pretty much that's life, this has very little to do with a religion other than that religion creates some of the time cultural borders in my opinion.

I mean, after all, life is nothing more than an extended college dorm bull session, correct?

They see college life as fostering conformity and dependence rather than freedom, imagination, and creativity.

Since 1.1 billion of the world's citizens live on less than a dollar a day, four college kids embark on a journey to Guatemala where they attempt to do the same.

In a 2009 study in Journal of American College Health, B.J. Willoughby and J.S. Carroll found that «students living in co-ed housing were also more likely [than those in single - sex residences] to have more sexual partners in the last 12 months.»

Bob Jones — founder of the college Graham first attended declared that Graham had done «more harm to the cause of Jesus Christ than any living man.»

Because of COURSE a few cells are FAR more important than the life of a girl who's in college!

Maybe I realized I was spending more time talking to my new «Internet» friends than my real life college buddies.

Fans still long for the larger - than - life college football coach, the gridiron god epitomized by Bear Bryant, but the truth is that his like will never be seen again

Larger - than - life Arena Football League commissioner David Baker won't let anything keep him from his son's college football games

Williams graduated from Grambling in 1977 and has maintained close ties to the school and to its living icon, Eddie Robinson, who has won more games, 405, than any other college coach.

Rhinos Rugby was started in 2013 as a local Orange County rugby club by passionate rugby players and dads who dreamed to do better than the status quo for their kids and the game, and teach them life skills and provide college opportunities through the sport.

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1984: Started No. 3, didn't win a second game until the second - to - last week, and aren't known for anything other than losing to eventual champ BYU in ESPN's first live college football broadcast?

Peer pressure can be dangerous, in a lot of ways, and though getting shin splints might seem a lot less of a risk than trying to drive buzzed or going to that college party, they can turn into a serious and even life - long condition.

More than 100,000 students on U.S. youth, public school and college teams have no stable place to live.

At a challenging and confusing period of life for both parents and college - bound students, there's nothing more disheartening than having «experts» add to the confusion.

I have graduated from college and graduate school but have yet to nail down gainful employment making more than I do now to be able to plan a life without him.

We're living in a maddening era of anti-intellectualism right now, but it's now more clear than ever that college represents so much.

I've come to think of getting married as more akin to college or high school graduation than a romantic gesture or the real - life fairtyale we're led to believe it will be.

But men who have kids outside of marriage, often African - American men and those without college degrees, are even less likely to be involved in their lives than divorced dads, they note.

Sport is seen less as a means to better life than it is in the US, where the chase for college athletic scholarships has reshaped the youth sport landscape over the past generation.

BigFuture helps students find the best college fit for their lives and needs, rather than chasing artificial college rankings.

The project's goal is nothing less than changing the lives of thousands of children in Harlem, starting at birth and continuing until they go to college.

Still, while more costly than buying a box of cereal at the supermarket, this is a wonderfully creative gift for a cherished healthy eater, cereal lover, or always - happy - to - get - some - free - food college student in your life.

More than 3,000 college students will be volunteering their time and energy to provide unique, life - changing experiences for children whose parents have been touched by cancer.

Having a summer job not only teaches about the specificity of the position at hand, but what companies expect; what jobs are more competitive than others; learning to work with others; developing a good, strong work ethic; taking criticism; and applying what was learned to their college and life experience.

CHESTNUT HILL, MA (June 9, 2014)-- Fathers want to be present and involved from the first days of their children's lives and increasingly expect their employers to support them through paid leave, flexibility, and ultimately a culture that respects their desire to be hands - on caregivers, according to a new study of 30 corporations and more than 1,000 fathers by the Boston College Center for Work & Family (BCCWF).