Sentences with phrase «of grad school as»

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To give you an idea of the training required for this designation, «the pass rate for the exam to become a CFP certificant is about the same as the pass rate on the bar exam that law school grads are required to take in order to practice law,» she explains.

And, so as not to miss the bandwagon, suddenly every business is in the video business as well and there's a video crew (generally composed of otherwise unemployed film school grads) trying to spin the day's every activity into something golden that they think the world wants to see.

Working directly with Steve Jobs starting back in 1984, the Harvard Business School grad oversaw AppleLink, which spun off as the beginnings of AOL (America Online).

There's a sort of shared anticipation in the air as the days grow shorter, the breezes get cooler, and folks everywhere begin new journeys together — a new school year for teachers and students, new jobs for recent grads, new projects at work, new Sunday school classes at church, new shows on TV, a new session of Congress in Washington, new routines, new people, new information, new schedules.

No one could relate to the day - to - day struggle of the program and of life in a new place as well as my grad school friends.

I had to read that thing as part of a course in aberrant psychology at grad school.

Yale still has a school of divinity yet I wouldn't consider a grad student (who may or may not graduate) as a theological expert.

While in grad school, I ran across the author Henri Nouwen, who articulated the tension — or paradox — of faith as well as anyone I have read.

Though 11 percent of college grads identified as atheists or agnostics compared to 4 percent of those with a high school diploma or less, 75 percent of those with college degrees still said that they were affiliated with a religion, compared to 76 percent of those with some college education and 78 percent with a high school diploma or less.

Back in grad school I read somewhere that there was a rabbinical tradition that it was a dog that God gave Cain to protect him in Gen 4... hence the beginning of man's best friend (as well as the inspiration of the Cain / dog relationship in the Kung Fu series).

While in school I dreamed of having a dog as I grew up with countless animals, but the NYC apartment was too small and had too little extra time with my life being consumed with grad school.

I am in my last year of grad school at Purdue and hope to eventually get a masters in nutrition as well.

Well, as grad school students, we only go out to eat about once a month (if that), and I just can't bear the idea of wrestling and wrangling two tiny people while I'm at a restaurant trying to enjoy a meal I paid for someone else to make.

All of those players will be eligible to play immediately for their next schools as grad transfers.

«I'm trying to pay for grad school out of pocket, which is not impossible when I'm taking a class or two a semester, but the added financial help from the scholarship is just that much more,» said Amanda, who described the application process as easy, efficient, and straightforward.

In Halifax we had the benefit of one of my grad school girlfriends as a tour guide.

For the last 22 years I have worked as a holistic nurse midwife, then with the added expertise as a yoga teacher, advanced grad and volunteer staff of Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts, and Clarity Breathwork practitioner.

Tanner left the world of managing retirement portfolios in pursuit of something that would leave «a different kind of legacy,» enrolling as a food policy grad student at New York University with the intention of becoming a school food services director.

Even though they do not serve as professors, researchers who pursue other academic paths note that their intensive training — in grad school, postdoc appointments, and other experiences — prepares them uniquely for the challenges of their new positions.

In fact, some of the contributors to this book came from high - powered research institutions and many had good experiences in grad school as well as good mentoring; one was a Churchill Scholar.

«It also made me wonder if there's a female bias present in terms of, «I struggled through grad school without taking leave; I think others should do so as well.»»

Wang clearly wrote this book as a character study, not as an academic analysis of the grad school experience.

In addition, the current MCB Grad Network members and I are discussing the possibility of creating an alumni bridge so that those who leave graduate school can maintain supportive structures in their lives as they move on in their careers.

As he read the job ad again and again, he realized that there were parts of his grad school experience relevant to the job that were not included in his CV.

«We had high - school and college - age students with grad students and postdocs in the lab, and they were each sharing experiences, educating each other as to how to go from that specific part of their lives and move on to the challenges of the next phase, both scientifically and personally,» she says.

But a 2014 study from a professor at the University of California (UC), San Francisco, found that this metric also washed out as a predictor of grad school performance.

The research proposal has been refined several times, and my research is still evolving (but that is the way of grad school, as many experienced friends correctly warned me).

«With there being so many different areas of biomedical engineering one can get into, it would be really hard to make a decision as to what to do for a substantial part of your life if you didn't go to grad school first,» she says.

As of 2013, the most recent year the infographic captures, roughly 75 % of Ph.D. recipients 1 to 4 years out of grad school report that R&D is part of their job description.

Granted, there was free food in grad school, but obtaining it always required some form of sacrifice or subterfuge, such as attending a seminar on yeast genetics or pretending to be a dean.

This, despite the fact that not only is there the potential that all involved — students, faculty, and postdocs — will benefit, but also, as Morton points out, that «in grad school there were a lot of people who wanted to go to this kind of place.»

I didn't manage to pick up a significant other in grad school (Chapter 23), but it's just as well: I can only be responsible for my own sanity right now; adding another person would be a wee bit too much, even if he could take my car for oil changes and take care of some of the household chores.

Sticks to everything he learned in grad school and is scared of anything new, which he tends to dismiss as rubbish.

Finch's ideas about senescence from his grad school days have also held up: The popularity of the Hayflick model has declined as other research questioned its relevance to aging in whole organisms, and recent studies in long - lived nematodes have confirmed Finch's hunch that brain hormones control aging (see Johnson Review).

There are also «rumors from several places that in the faculty meetings... one of the very first suggestions is that the schools should look to expand graduate enrollment» based on thinking that «we're going to end up having fewer postdocs, so now we need more grad students» — thus implicitly defining postdocs mainly as labor rather than trainees.

The 3MT competition began as an experiment at the University of Queensland in Australia in 2008, when then - graduate school dean Alan Lawson concocted it as a means of forcing grad students to practice their communication skills.

As defined by my grad school bible, Principles of Neural Science: «The axon and the muscle fibers it innervates constitute a motor unit.»

I actually went back to school as a grad student so I get to relive the joys of winter breaks.

I'll be honest and say that I wore this over the weekend and didn't end up going anywhere except out to take photos, but this is totally grad - school - worthy, as the majority of my outfits are (and it's worth repeating!).

I've had artificial trees in the past — as a penniless grad school student I've celebrated Christmas with a 2 - foot tree — but I always get the biggest thrill out of adventuring to a farm and picking out a live tree to chop down.

I'm an over-educated know - it - all ex-scientist who tends to keep to himself but has lots of stories to tell about the world, grad school, physics, near - death experiences (as in nearly died, not the metaphysical kind), and a plethora of other things when properly prompted.

Starring Viola Davis as an embattled family court judge with a fraught marriage of her own; Hayden Panettiere as a recent law - school grad flung into a custody case; and Catalina Sandino Moreno as the single mother at the center of the case who risks losing her two children over an ill - timed argument.

In her late twenties and fresh out of grad school, Megan (Keira Knightley) currently works as the «sign girl» for her father's (Jeff Garlin) tax firm, hopelessly undecided about whether or not she wants to pursue the profession she just received a degree in.

There's no chance of false advertising with the film's title, as the proceedings unabashedly revolve around recent high - school grad Ian (Josh Zuckerman) hopping into a 1969 Pontiac GTO and driving to have sex with a gorgeous girl he's met on the internet (Katrina Bowden).

Employers Vexed Over Unprepared Grads As high schools across the country churn out class after class of eager young minds, the nation's employers complain that too many are ill - prepared.

Teaching English as a second language to Houston middle schoolers helped to prepare Greenhill, a Vassar grad, for his current role as chief of staff to the mayor of Tucson, Arizona, which is more than a third Hispanic.

A March 26, 2014 report by the New America Foundation points out that as much as 40 percent of the $ 1 trillion in student debt outstanding was borrowed not for college, but to pay for grad school.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.