Sentences with phrase «of big college»

Lots of big college football betting matchups between ranked teams pop up on the schedule this week.

The holiday season brings the «gift» of big College Football Bowl Games for college football fans.

The University of Texas has one of the biggest college athletics programs in the country and its teams sport some of the most recognizable uniforms of any NCAA team.

Last week we examined three of the biggest college football games and highlighted sharp money indicators on two favorites: Notre Dame -LRB--6.5) and Michigan -LRB--8.5).

First, on Saturday, one of the biggest college basketball...

First, on Saturday, one of the biggest college basketball games of the day is the Alabama - Kentucky match - up.

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Just like an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you'll face as a recent college grad starting out as a freelancer is landing your first paying gigs.

Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

He attended a local Catholic high school and a big public college, the University of Massachusetts.

«Paradoxically, big get - togethers can be easier to prioritize than smaller ones,» writes Vanderkam, offering the example of a busy professor who plans an annual getaway for her old college friends and their families.

Manayunk is home to hundreds of college students thanks to its close proximity to six of Philly's biggest schools.

Folsom, an American who worked for Bain & Co. in Tokyo after college before founding one of the first private equity firms in Japan, hired the biggest Japanese law firm and petitioned the court to change the bankruptcy to a so - called «civil rehabilitation.»

One of them asked me, «Isn't it a good idea to go to a big - name brand firm straight out of college?

That deal followed a coup for Under Armour (which is big supporter of CEO Kevin Plank's alma mater, the University of Maryland) when the company last year reached an apparel agreement with the University of Notre Dame — a deal that school said was the largest ever in college sports at the time.

During recent years, Werklund has been focusing on philanthropy — in March he donated $ 16 million to Olds College, the biggest single donation in Alberta colleges» history — after stepping down from executive control of his company Canadian Crude Separators in 2010.

Rometty is no exception: She came to Big Blue as a systems engineer in 1981 after graduating from Northwestern with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering at Northwestern and doing a two year stint at the General Motors Institute (a condition of her college scholarship).

Unlike in Canada, where the country's biggest universities play in front of sparse crowds and go years without winning a season, U.S. colleges outside of the Ivy League depend upon their sports teams to bring in new students, attract attention, and draw donations and revenue.

The notion of a startup founder with student - loan debt evokes the clichéd image of a Silicon Valley millennial fresh out of college and living in a shared apartment, playing video games and feverishly pitching angel investors to fund his (or her) next «big idea» — from 3D printing to the next Facebook.

«The biggest mistake I see is parents who try and pay 100 % of a child's college costs and screw up their own retirement because of it,» says Egan.

Michael Smith and Rahul Telang — two professors at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Public Policy and Management — explore these questions in their new book, Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment, published by MIT Press last month.

«So it definitely wasn't as big of a transition as I thought it might be, because we get to take classes with and study with people and live in the dorm with people who are all your age, but then still get to be on a regular - aged college campus and be involved with all of the regular campus events,» Corinne said.

«I'm a big college sports fan, having started and coached the women's golf team at my university, University of Notre Dame.

Toronto's Centennial College will also begin offering instruction in Islamic finance this fall, partly due to interest from one of the Big Five banks in helping their staff speak the same language as clients with different financial backgrounds.

A college education is among the biggest financial investments a person will make in his or her lifetime, said Brandon Busteed, executive director of Gallup's education division.

On this topic, I go back to a clip of one of my college games at NC State against Indiana, a Big 10 Team that we needed to beat.

On the topic of temptation, Green said he learned a big lesson from the early days of his first company, Zimride, a ride - sharing service for college students and employees of local companies.

The average salary for a college football head coach in the conference was $ 2.27 million and men's basketball coaches made $ 1.9 million on average, compared with $ 365,000 for the head coaches of BIG 10 women's basketball teams.

Nag your kid constantly about the importance of college (or try some clumsy reverse psychology and claim education is no big deal) and you may induce reactance and spur rebellion.

In fact, of the biggest sports — NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, college football, college basketball — only two or three of the championship events in the past two years were not dramatic or historic.

«If you look at most sports strikes, you really do see a big bounce - back right away,» says Victor Matheson, an economics professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts.

Instead of placing a lot of importance on leaving a big inheritance for future generations, she said many grandparents want to be the person in the family that people can turn to now — whether it's to help out with college tuition or get that must - have holiday gift.

In college, whenever Iraq or Afghanistan came up, I missed out on a lot of opportunities for personal growth because I was in too big of a hurry to toot my own horn to my civilian peers, rather than take the time to hear what they had to say on the topic.

McKinsey sees a shortage of up to 200,000 workers and 1.5 million managers skilled with big data, leading companies and colleges to partner.

«Right out of college, I was an assistant receptionist for a big - time entertainment executive in New York,» recalled Kirsten Helvey, now the chief operating officer of Cornerstone OnDemand in Santa Monica, Calif. «One day, I got his lunch order wrong.»

RECESS is aimed at college students and bridges today's big musicians with the superstars of business.

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About a year after I started doing this stuff, I broke some big record, a 72 - ounce steak in seven minutes, and after I posted that video I got asked by an eating organization to come down to San Diego in 2008 for something called the Collegiate Nationals, a contest between all the college eaters and university eaters of North America.

Saving for college and retirement is one of life's biggest investments, but surveys show they often come dead last.

Less than three years later, Unigo has more than 150,000 reviews from more than 4,000 colleges and is one of the biggest sources of college information online.

«For the ten charged men, the madness of college basketball went well beyond the Big Dance in March,» Kim said in a press conference on Tuesday.

It took a mere six months at a (then) Big Eight firm for Gregory Muzzillo, just out of college at age 23 and trained as an accountant, to decide he «was not keen on a career path that demanded such a drawn - out process to make partner.»

While much of the last week has focused on Les Miles and his future at LSU, other teams have been scrambling to secure some of the biggest coaching names in college and the NFL.

The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history.

So if tuition at Big State College is currently $ 10,000 a year, a $ 5,000 contribution today will buy you 50 % of a year's tuition (or one semester's worth)-- whenever your child is ready to attend school and cash it in.

PHILADELPHIA — Two black men arrested for sitting at a Philadelphia Starbucks without ordering anything settled with the world's biggest coffee - shop chain Wednesday for an undisclosed sum and an offer of a free college education.

One of the biggest investment mistakes I see millennials make is purchasing luxury cars immediately after graduating from college.

So instead of a creating a big feature with a broad theatrical release, Ms. Powell Jobs commissioned a 30 - minute film, «The Dream Is Now,» which is viewable online and being shown at college campuses across the country.

Recently, Corinthian Colleges — one of the biggest for - profit colleges in the United States — sold some of its locations to Zenith Education (many of which will be closing shortly), filed for bankruptcy.

Obtaining a college education is one of the biggest goals in many young adults» lives.

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