Sentences with phrase «of 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..

Saban, meanwhile, said that he felt it would be unfair to blame the players for leaving, suggesting that because of the college - football playoff, most bowl games have become little more than an exhibition game.

The Boston area remains stung by the fact that it churns out tens of thousands of high - quality college graduates every year, but that most of them leave for jobs.

While the College Football Playoff will garner the most attention, there's plenty of other great bowl games to enjoy in the mean time, and for gamblers, there's plenty of money left to be made.

The paradox of my leaving home again in 2012 (having already left once for college) was that I would not be where I am now (working for technology company Waze in New York City) had it not been for the values and lessons instilled in me during my 19 or so years of growing up in California's Central Valley.

Reshef says that in Syria alone, there are between 100,000 and 300,000 college aid students who have left off their studies as a result of displacement and the conflict, and this represents a terrible crisis for education, and the risk of creating an entire lost generation.

Look to the very top: President Barack Obama cried in 2008 while thanking his campaign staff; he cried after the Newtown shooting; he cried when his grandmother died and, in April, when thinking of his daughter leaving for college.

«No one should be asked to leave a restaurant, rejected for an apartment or mistreated at work because of who they are,» Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Chicago - Kent College of Law, wrote in an email to CNBC.

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 1969, at age 18, Orr left for the U.S. to pursue a degree in physics from the City College of New York.

What it's about: Pixar returned to Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of the toys to see what they're up to when Andy leaves for college.

Thiel made headlines last year when he announced he would fund a group of college start - ups, provided the students left school for two years.

Boxed also pays up to $ 20,000 for any full - time employee's wedding, funds the college education of Boxed workers» children, and offers unlimited paid maternity and paternity leave.

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.

The son of a minister and a teacher, he left from college with $ 20,000 + in student loans and has a longtime passion for helping underserved communities.

Campaigns included an initiative started by college students called «Students with Puerto Rico» and the «Mirta & Angelo hurricane relief» — a campaign created for a woman's great - grandparents, 80 and 84, who are living «in the shell of a home» they have left south of San Juan.

This was not true for me, and it is not true for many of the young adults who leave college with questions about science, philosophy, politics, and religious pluralism that challenge the fundamentalism with which they were raised.

The balance, college officials say, is between preserving the theological integrity of the school while leaving room for questions.

It means celebrating parenthood by making America the most generous country in the developed world when it comes to maternity and paternity leave, not the least generous, and it means working together on efforts to reduce the costs of food, diapers, childcare, pediatrician visits, college tuition, adoption, and resources for special needs children.

Once he graduated, he enrolled in Calvary Chapel Bible College near Los Angeles for a couple of years, before leaving school to work as a youth pastor at a church in New Mexico.

It leaves some ends loose (for example, on state nullification of federal laws) and undertreats some areas of current interest (for example, the electoral college).

when I first started reading up on how extreme Christian fundamentalism has become in the last 30 yrs (since I left Evangelicalism), I was stunned to find that there is a whole movement afoot to keep children, especially girls, from attending college — yes, even BJU — for fear of them being «indoctrinated» with «liberal ideas».

So whether you're a student looking for a church in your new college town or a longtime member of one church who is considering leaving, don't be intimidated by the change.

Three afternoons a week, two or three students at the Venerable English College in Rome turn left out of the seminary door and take a short walk to serve Benediction for their neighbours at the Bridgettine convent.

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?

I had left Brooklyn for college but after a brief stint of Manhattan living came back for what I thought was for good — which in this case meant twelve years.

Though there a lot of economic and social factors at play with the trend, it is notable that the average age for getting married is steadily rising and that millennials leaving college are often saddled with record amounts of student loan debt.

- Christian liberal arts college which forced at least two professors to resign for legalistic reasons - Non-denominational church in which several of us who were leaving after a Sunday School class to attend worship services at another church were confronted by the main pastor in the parking lot who literally blocked our exit until we satisfied his curiousity about why we were leaving.

The closure of Corpus Christi College in 1975, which had had so many disaffected priests lecturing there and thence leaving the priesthood, was a bitter blow for the Church and for Cardinal Heenan.

«While I acted to exercise my position of oversight of the faculty within the bounds of Wheaton College employment policies and procedures, I apologized for my lack of wisdom and collegiality as I initially approached Dr. Hawkins, and for imposing an administrative leave more precipitously than was necessary.»

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.

Mommy is growing a business, Daddy dealt with turmoil at work that ultimately led to him having to leave the only company he ever worked for out of college and sent us to a new home in a new state through a several month long process that involved home improvement projects, shuttling you off to grandma's house, three hour drives back and forth, and a stress that Mommy has never experienced before because New Jersey was the only place I ever called home.

She's recently left for college, so guess what has moved to the top of my must - make - now list?

As a mother of four, Isabel was touched when her oldest left for college.

Basically I'm cramming in crazy amounts of information, still adjusting to college, and it's not leaving room for much else.

A handful of other future draft picks left college abruptly to join the development league before declaring for the draft.

With four teams in the top 13 of Week 5's simulated BCS standings, led by Kansas State at No. 8, the left - for - dead Big 12 has emerged as perhaps the best conference in college football's young 2012 season.

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.

After graduating from Kenyon College, Allen enrolled at the Columbia School of Journalism only to leave suddenly in the middle of the spring term when Gabe Paul, then the publicity man and road secretary for the Reds, offered him a job as his assistant.

«Last March, Williams surprised the college basketball universe by abruptly leaving Marquette, which he had led to five NCAA tournament appearances and the 2013 Elite Eight, for Virginia Tech, one of the country's toughest rebuilding projects.

In fact many believed that Harper, who left high school early to play for Southern Nevada Junior College before being drafted with the first overall pick in 2010, was not expected to make his major league debut until the beginning of the 2013 season.

The Tigers have gone 6 — 0 since a 53 — 28 loss to Georgia, and although offensive coordinator Josh Heupel has left for the top job at UCF, they still will feature one of the most fun offenses in college football under quarterback Drew Lock in the matchup with Texas.

Dana will be acting as an assistant coach for the Women's Varsity team in the Fall of 2016 during Allison's maternity leave Dana began rowing in 1990 for the Oakland Strokes while attending College Prep in Oakland.

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

Alas, most of the fan club's members have left for college in the last few weeks.

The game was the same but many of the faces were new as the college basketball season exploded with a roar that left some of the nation's most stalwart contenders for national honors shaken and gasping for breath.

He declared for the draft with one year of college eligibility left.

He also returned a handful of established college names, but none flirted with leaving early for the draft.

We've never seen two teams from the same conference in the College Football Playoff, but if both Georgia and Alabama are undefeated heading into an SEC title game, it'll be hard for the committee to leave one of them out, regardless of the winner.

With his college plans already decided, he wants to put one final stamp on his high school career before hitting the junior amateur circuit and leaving for Texas to join one of the top collegiate golf programs in the country.