Sentences with phrase «of getting to college»

Other, less radical approaches to financing higher education for future Americans include small savings accounts that have been proven to drastically increase a kid's chances of getting to college.

I always assumed the most challenging part of getting to college was the application process.

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I read this book in college, it is an encouraging story of true entrepreneurship and someone who made a vision come to life that I think every entrepreneur should get to know.

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It's too easy to get wrapped up in schoolwork and the business that he sometimes forgets to fully take advantage of being a college student.

Recent graduates «don't know how to use Excel after they get out of college, they can hardly make a PowerPoint presentation,» he says.

«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.

It's more difficult for them to land good jobs, according to a study from the Pew Research Center, in spite of the fact that more millennials are getting college degrees than their parents did.

«You just don't know what's going to happen when you get out there and do something like this,» said Paul Argenti, professor of corporate communications at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Carla Dearing, chief executive officer of financial - advice website SUM180, has some tips to quell that fear and become more efficient with your plastic: «Do not get a credit card while you're in college,» she says.

But when Gershtein didn't get accepted into the college art program of her choice, she opted to make painting her hobby and focus her post-secondary career on math.

There was a time when Levi, a college dropout who got his start as a stockbroker and the son of a B.C. NDP cabinet minister, seemed to have the Midas touch.

Though she never expressed second thoughts about her chosen path — she'd dropped out of Smith College to get married and start a family — others sometimes did.

The master's program got its start after Dixon discovered that Roberts Wesleyan College, which is a client, needed classroom space to reach students on the east side of Rochester near Dixon Schwabl's offices.

When a college student asked me how to spend his summers, I advised him to try and get an internship at a large firm for some of the reasons above.

Since the book is a key reason my kids were able to go to the colleges of their choice, the moral seems clear to me: Get as much input from your customers as you can and act on it.

By the end of the 16 - month program, Phelps received her master's in strategic marketing from Roberts Wesleyan College and also positioned herself as a comer at the company, joining a key leadership committee and getting a raise to boot.

He frequently steps up to podium mics to make sure college students get an earful of the types of lessons he didn't get as a managerial economics major at the University of California, Davis.

An outspoken supporter of women in the technology space, she isn't afraid to say that quotas and regulations may be what's necessary to get women to equal levels within the sector, much as Title IX allowed her to receive a full scholarship to college.

He was starting to get frustrated with the slow pace of advancement at Amgen when his old college roommate called — a guy he used to do day trading with in the dorms.

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The second group of guinea pigs were college students, half of whom were asked to complete a survey for charity in an overheated room, and half of whom got to do the same task in a nice cool one.

The complete post is well worth reading in full if you're feeling a little at sea at your new school (or if you're hoping to offer some guidance to the college student in your life), but here are a few of his tips in brief in get you started.

During a break at a conference where I was teaching the 21 Laws, a young college student came up to me and said: «I know you are teaching 21 Laws of Leadership, but I want to get to the bottom line.»

Christian Borges, vice president of marketing for MRY, a New York - based social - media agency that got its start in the college space, adds that this domino - like reality makes it even more important to achieve brand recognition and adoption in the first place.

«The way to maximize your chances of getting that release is to make the payments on time,» said Kantrowitz, publisher of Edvisors Network, a group of websites about planning and paying for college.

If a high school baseball player gets to play in college, there's still only a 0.6 percent chance of being drafted by the majors.

«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.

With the average college student owing nearly $ 30,000, it behooves borrowers to get educated on the ins and outs of student loans.

«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.

«You've got access to an amazing amount of talent from Waterloo, Schulich, Western, Queen's, U of T, Ryerson, OCADU, and all the colleges,» says Gupta.

Students are generally short of money and have no lack of other demands on their time (though, let's be honest, plenty of college kids aren't exactly getting up at the crack of dawn to hit the books or spending every waking hour working).

He'd gone to college «without any type of direction other than to get a job and make money,» he tells CNBC Make It.

An audience of all ages and interests will benefit from Robbins» revelations, with one episode dedicated to getting the most out of college, and another focused on packing for a camping trip.

A recruiter called his house in the Florida panhandle at 10:30 a.m. on a weekday in the midst of a senior year in high school in which he would fail a class and realize he didn't have the transcript needed to get into a four - year college.

«The students get paid internships as a way to offset the cost of college, and when they graduate they can say they learned it and actually practiced it on the job.

I'm also in graduate school for my MPA in emergency management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, so the schedule is definitely full and it takes a careful balance to have some time to relax and not get burned out.

While both Volvo and Imperial College concede that these applications are still a long way off, the potential alone is more than enough to get anyone geeked - up about the future of materials research.

One student told me that he thought college students tended to ramp up their privacy settings and change them more frequently because «we're getting closer to being in the real world and we've all heard these horror stories of prospective employers mining applicants» Facebooks.

Especially when you're right out of college and you've got bills to pay, it can be very easy to spend everything you make and say, «I can't afford to save right now.»

The logic: Purdue has been one of my favorite teams to watch in college football this season, with a sparky offense and better - than - expected defense capable of getting a stop when the moment calls.

There are a lot of great companies that no longer need a college degree to get a job.

Even with black women graduating from college in record numbers, «not enough are coming out of the education system to get them all the way through to the C - suite,» says Burns.

But for most students, college is necessary to get a better understanding of life in general.

The last thing anyone wants to think about when they get out of college is repaying their student loans.

A coach at the college reportedly told Dawkins to «call Jim Gatto, who's the head of everything» at Adidas» basketball program, to get the required funding.

After I got out of the service I went to world famous Los Angeles City College and like I came down here and I was going to Los Angeles City College and someone suggested I go to an acting class in the evening and I said I don't know about that.

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

«How he gets to balanced budget is open to debate,» says Philip Romero, dean of the College of Business and Economics at California State in Los Angeles.

You want me to leave all this so I can finish high school, go to college, and then get a job where, if I'm lucky, I'll be making one - quarter of what I'm making now?