Sentences with phrase «like leaving for college»

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Once Katrina happened, first off a lot of people left, but then you had a lot of people come down and do community service projects, help rebuild, and a lot of them were young people right out of college through things like AmeriCorps or Habitat for Humanity, etc..

He has repeatedly name checked countries like Denmark and Sweden in interviews and debates, arguing that we should copy policies like mandatory paid leave for new parents and free healthcare and college education to improve the economic lives of ordinary Americans.

Heading off to college can leave many feeling like they have just fallen into a pool for the very first time.

And then, when, like most of the kids in the youth groups or Bible colleges, we found ourselves in a rather usual sort of life, surprisingly not preaching to thousands on a weeknight, we were left feeling like failures, like somehow we weren't measuring up, we weren't serving God effectively, we must have missed it because isn't our life supposed to be about doing big, successful things for God?

Like her husband before her, Clinton is trying to forge a new consensus and is unashamed to pile up policy proposals: on family leave, child care, college affordability, incentives to employers for higher wages, immigration reform, clean energy and limits on the power of wealthy campaign donors.

I'm a college student and mostly cooking for just me so I'd like to freeze the left overs.

I'd like to welcome back to the Wrap - Up Luke «2013 Suburbs College / Prep MVP» Jacobson who went 4 for 4 from the dish with a HR and 2 RBIs... He picked up right where he left off this Summer and has begun his Campaign for 2 MVPs in 2013..

But more revealing was this: As the Auburn players walked off the field, they genuinely believed they had found their 2013 version of Newton — who like Marshall had left an SEC school (Florida), gone to junior college for a season (Blinn College in Brenham, Texas) and was the team's opening - game starter as a college for a season (Blinn College in Brenham, Texas) and was the team's opening - game starter as a College in Brenham, Texas) and was the team's opening - game starter as a junior.

Apparently Cam doesn't like when people bring up the allegations made against him when he was at Auburn, that he was willing to play for the highest bidder after leaving junior college.

Fortunately for nonrecruiters like Thomsen, lacrosse is one of the few college sports left in which many of the players are made, not bought.

Then, for 50 minutes, the young men talked, with Bailys loosely guiding the conversation around the theme of what it takes to go «outside of the box» in your thinking and decision - making — a topic that was broad enough to encompass both a discussion about what it might feel like to leave Illinois for college and a long debate about the experience that Rashid, one of the group members, had had the previous weekend, when he was jumped by two guys while he was walking from his grandmother's house to a convenience store to buy M&M's.

College students can take it or leave it, some of them might give you an inkling if they like something, but it's nothing like elementary school kids whose eyes light up when they see their favorite food and suddenly it's the best day in the world for them.»

The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking.»

Bill Mulrow, chairman of Mr. Cuomo's re-election campaign, also defended the governor's progressive record, pointing to measures like a $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave, gun control, a ban on fracking and free college tuition at public colleges for the middle class.

With daughters leaving for college, it must really feel like the end of summer.

This is why Penn made this film, this is why McCandless» parents, even as they are portrayed in a highly negative light through most of the film, allowed it to happen — the truth is, it's not every day that a just - graduated college kid simply up and leaves for the sake of an adventure like that of McCandless» Supertramp.

Disadvantaged students shouldn't have to be recruited into a program like Prep for Prep and leave the public - school system to get a good college education.

He eventually enrolled at Morehouse College in Atlanta and became, he says, «like a scout» for friends back home who didn't have the same opportunity to leave but wondered what life could be beyond California.

Like No Child Left Behind, ESSA requires states to test students every year, but provides a bit more flexibility for states to try out new kinds of tests or use a nationally recognized college entrance test at the high school level.

Programs like Teach For America recruit bright college graduates but offer little pre-service preparation, and then see their participants leave the profession after an average of three years.

I pondered what family life would be like once my son left home for college in a few months.

Don't become obsessed with it like I was (it's really not good for anyone...), but if you have money left after the 15 % investment and the appropriate monthly draw for your kids» college fund (the calculator above will tell you how much you need to save each month), then put the extra $ 500 or so a month at the home mortgage.

«Many people save too much for things like retirement, college savings or investments and squeeze themselves too tightly financially, leaving little room for spending or building of their emergency fund,» said Hardy.

But when something drastically changes like a death of a human or animal companion, a child leaving for college, a divorce or even relocation to a new home, pets need time to adjust.

If kitty is acting out because of a change in her home environment — like a family member leaving for college, for example — then staff members might recommend a new toy or treats to reinforce good behavior and distract from the unwelcome change.

Albers left Germany for the US in 1933, with her husband, the painter Josef Albers, to teach at the new Black Mountain College, North Carolina, and make fabrics for design - led companies like Knoll and Rosenthal.

Nicholas Middleton: When you are in the middle of the process it's hard to separate out those decisions that go into making a piece... when I started painting after I left college, I didn't... well, I suppose I fought against the idea of just making a painting from photographic sources which looked like a photograph, so I used lots of strategies to disguise it, or to confuse it in a sense, making paintings which were more like collages, or reducing imagery to... well, I borrowed things from pop art to, I suppose, to complicate things, for a few years it felt like I was fighting against what I seem to be naturally quite good at, and then it reached a point where I just felt I didn't want to tie myself in too many knots in terms of the thinking which was going on behind the pictures and then just let myself just paint fairly directly from photographic sources.

And while Term insurance is great for protecting people for a specific time — like until kids are thru college or a mortgage is paid off — most people want life insurance for their entire lives... That's why there's permanent insurance... so you can be guaranteed to leave money to those who matter most to you no matter when you go.

For, like YEARS... When the time comes for college / leaving the nest, make»em a tee shirt quilt with all their faves - it's a piece of home no matter where they liFor, like YEARS... When the time comes for college / leaving the nest, make»em a tee shirt quilt with all their faves - it's a piece of home no matter where they lifor college / leaving the nest, make»em a tee shirt quilt with all their faves - it's a piece of home no matter where they live.