Sentences with phrase «like graduating college»

Choose a topic that discusses a life milestone like graduating college, getting married, and having a child.

When I opened it, he said, «Every time I look at my watch to check the time, I'm reminded of a special time in my life, like graduating college or our wedding day.

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«Like so many new college graduates, Alida Nugent had a degree not getting her anywhere and tons of debt, which forced her to move back in with her parents.

«What looks like a great job graduating from college today may be not be a great job graduating from college five years or 10 years from now,» Cuban said.

Ask a roomful of high - achieving, top - college graduates to find potential new coworkers, and they'll likely deliver a binder full of candidates who look like themselves.

He had graduated from Art Center College of Design in the early 1990s, making him an alumnus of the world's most prestigious transportation design program, counting among its graduates the likes of J. Mays, Chris Bangle, and Henrik Fisker.

Farrell notes that colleges and universities tout the successes of their incoming students — test scores, academic achievement, acceptance rates, and the like — but rarely spend the same amount of energy sharing data about job placement and success rates of graduates.

Giving a new college graduate an 832 - page book by a professor sounds like a terrible idea — except your gift will probably register when you say it's on the recommendation of none other than Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.

Some graduates, like those from Bloomfield College, are leaving school with an average of $ 44,000 in debt.

There are large, well - funded firms like SoFi who are lowering interest rates for college graduates that are underserved by big banks and the government.

This September, like every year, a new group of high school graduates headed to college or university to pursue higher education.

«I think a program like this would have been unthinkable in 2007, but I think you increasingly have people who are graduating from college, not being able to get good jobs, moving back home with their parents,» he said.

Cities like San Francisco are expensive even for college graduates without debt: they are saving $ 690 a month, on average, but still need 11 years to afford a 20 % down payment.

As an extremely recent college graduate at a terrible time for job hunting and the economy, this book seemed like a necessity.

They often hang around your necks of college graduates like an anchor, partly because of other life - living expenses that push student loans off until later.

Some of these new, lower - paying jobs are being taken by people just entering the labor force, like recent high school and college graduates.

While students may not feel like they are having as much fun as other students at college, they will be glad to not have the private student loan monkey on their back when they graduate.

I know you probably feel like you're in a rush being a new college graduate and all but some things take time.

Although this will be much easier if you have one of the highest paying college degrees as opposed to one of the worst paying college degrees, it is absolutely, mathematically, irrefutably possible for you to amass millions of dollars by the time you retire if you, like most college graduates, are in your early to mid-twenties and live a normal life expectancy.

when i got into investing a few years ago after graduating college, i tried the whole scheme of investing in speculative stocks like some biotech's and i have lost out on many of the great returns shown in the strongest companies.

But most employers today think high school and college graduates are seriously deficient in skills like leadership and innovation, and Americans face a steep shortfall of graduates majoring in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.

* Don't see world class institutions like The College of William & Mary and UC Berkeley, but at least both have graduate degrees and a decent amount of real estate investing experience.

Ultimately, it might look more like a balloon slowly deflating, if a large portion of college graduates decide to strategically default on their debt over time.

«As Hunter's President and a graduate of Hunter College High School myself, I know the critical difference a major gift like this can make in bringing positive change to campus,» said Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab.

My college years were a lot different than yours; my first full - time job as a graduate is unusual; my season of singleness isn't going to be like everyone else's.

Finally, there were those like Tim Stoen, a graduate of Wheaton College and Stanford University Law School.

What I honestly don't understand is how a recent Yale graduate who did well on Jeopardy's College thing could come up with a statements like «morality is external to us» and «I believed that the Moral Law wasn't just a Platonic truth, abstract and distant.

Their children graduate from institutions like Ohio State University and fall in line with what they see as the norm: going to college, getting married, having kids.

Like Trump, he had no interest in reconciling with his party critics or reaching out to groups that were skeptical of the GOP, such as minorities and college graduates.

But my experience since graduating from college has been that most people (including myself) seem most drawn to Christianity when they are touched by people who are simply living like Christ.

But they're dang good peaches and they come straight to your door and for a girl like me, who's been far from SC since she graduated college — there's nothing better than having a little piece of home land on your front stoop in the summer.

Since graduating college, we've lived 4 + hours away so we don't get down there nearly as much as we'd like to.

Thomsen, who was graduated from college not so very long ago himself but whose Ivy League haircut, tweed sports coat and well - used pipe make him look like a throwback to the Pleistocene Epoch compared to his unshorn, dungaree - clad players, has every reason to be an excellent lacrosse coach — which he is — and one very sad reason why he should not.

He knew that his mother, Ilse, a college German professor who died when Alvan was a senior in high school, would have liked to have seen him graduate.

A high school student's GPA, researchers have found, is a better predictor of her likelihood to graduate from college than her scores on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.

It's kind of hilarious, because four years ago I vowed he wouldn't watch television until, like, he graduated college.

I didn't realize how much I liked it until my college graduate years when I started taking basic drawing and graphic design.

6 months after we were in the relationship he got a job in a supermarket as security guard, but here in my country that does nt really makes a lot, its like almost $ 300 dollars per month, i make 600 up to 800 per month, by taking calls in a call center, he never went to college he only graduated highschool, im in law school right now... from the very beginning since i knew he did nt have a job or was making money he could spend, if i had money i would invite him out to dinner, or to the movies or whatever and it was me paying for it which i did nt mind, he is not the kind of men who buys flower, or invite u to the movies, or out, he rather visit me at home and watch a movie in netflix and thats it, we have made plans to go out, but none of them works out, something always happen, and the day it may happen, i say no, just because i think i will have to pay for the date..

New teachers graduate college with a background in courses based on things like classroom control, following federal standards, legal issues pertaining to what teachers may and may not do and, possibly, a few classes on a specialty subject.

No one will be able to follow these guidelines all the time, but once your children have graduated college and are on their own, it's time to step back and let them come to you for parenting advice instead of jumping in whenever you sense a problem - which, if you're an involved and caring parent, will happen more often than you would like.

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Sobbing on the phone to a good friend, I cried about what a failure I was as a mom and how my children were officially going to be in diapers until the time they graduated from college (I'm nothing if not rational during times like these... aren't we all?!?!?).

«It's like starting a race with an anchor tied to your leg,» Cuomo said of the $ 30,000 average debt for college graduates.

«If we secure a Working Families Party majority in the Senate, the NY DREAM Act will pass, ensuring that DREAMERS like me who have worked really hard to learn English and graduate high school are able to afford a college education,» said Cruz.

The comprehensive plan also includes tax benefits for four - year college graduates who stay in New York after graduation, enabling young adults to save for future expenses like a down payment on a home.

This comprehensive plan also includes tax benefits for four - year college graduates who stay in New York after graduation, giving young professionals more money to save for future expenses like a down payment on a home while retaining the talent and skills of New York's college graduates.

Facin said he wants to keep up the public pressure, to ensure that Hoosick Falls is the place where local graduates like Wysocki, the student who called the situation a «moral imperative,» can return after they finish college.

«The debt is so high it's like starting a race with an anchor tied to your leg,» Mr. Cuomo said of the student loans most college graduates face — a figure that totals more than $ 1 trillion nationally.

Speaking of the $ 30,000 or more in debt that many college students in New York accumulate by the time they graduate, Cuomo said, «It's like starting a race with an anchor tied to your leg.»

Republicans declared that Logan, a Trinity College graduate who directs governmental affairs for Aquarion Water Co., would benefit from a spillover effect of votes for Republican Donald Trump in working - class communities like Beacon Falls, Naugatuck and Derby.