Sentences with phrase «of my classmates did»

Many of my classmates didn't have any jobs lined up, and the economy, which was so strong when we started college in 2000, was not looking good.

For example, one claimed that a professor's use of questions from a commercial exam guide placed him at a competitive disadvantage on the test since the student did not use that particular guide to prepare for the test, while some of his classmates did.

Although, some of my classmates don't like the software because they feel it is more time consuming switching through tabs, the various technical problems that occasionally arise, or they are in a class that is not structured according to the order of the textbook.

A few of my classmates did have to re-take Class C and failed the first time through.

Not exact matches

Harvard Business School classmates Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss started Rent the Runway after noticing Hyman's sister didn't want to spend a lot of money for a dress she would wear only once to a wedding.

Despite having one of the most famous last names in the world, David Rockefeller Jr. didn't know his family was wealthy until he heard it from a classmate.

I was surrounded by a bunch of classmates who were guaranteed success, because no matter what they did, they had generations of wealth and connections to rely on.

Although Tyson, who was Yancopoulos» friend and classmate at the Bronx High School of Science, was quick to point out that he was not a winner or semifinalist in the competition (in fact he didn't even enter), knowing other students who were was a point of pride for him.

But over the last 40 years, every British minister has done what our bosses (usually their former classmates at Oxford and Cambridge) tell them to do: keep income tax rates low, make evasion easy with a ton of loopholes, turn a blind eye to our bonuses and our market - rigging, hand over tens of billions of pounds in bailout money when necessary, and pass the check to those mythical non-Londoners in their seaside retirement homes and Amazon logistics centers.

For his part, Blankfein said he did well in school not because he was «some roaring genius» but because he wanted to succeed, whereas most of his classmates couldn't have cared less.

He told me he's done the research on different gun control proposals, and opposes nearly all of them, telling me that ideas lifted up by his Parkland classmates (like lowering magazine capacity or reinstating the federal assault weapons ban) are «likely unconstitutional and likely statistically devoid of benefit.»

Kyle is a really smart, dedicated kid, but his opinion probably wouldn't be public fodder except that the left has hijacked a series of leftist teenagers to do their political dirty work, and Kyle is happy to respond to his classmates.»

A student journalist interviewed his classmates as they crowded into the dark closet of their culinary classroom — one interviewee expressed as much disbelief over our country's resignation to school shootings as she did over the shooting happening outside the door.

In a letter to irate classmates, Zuckerberg gives his first apology to make the news: «I hope you understand, this is not how I meant for things to go, and I apologize for any harm done as a result of my neglect to consider how quickly the site would spread and its consequences thereafter... I definitely see how my intentions could be seen in the wrong light.»

Classmates said they were concerned he fit the profile of a school shooter and Fort Lauderdale police sought the order after, they said, he wrote an essay describing a home invasion and murder at the home of a girl who did not return his affections.

They saw classmates die and took cover as bullets flew on Valentine's Day, but when the slaughter stopped, the survivors of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High stood up and did not shut up.

Unlike many of his classmates, Kashuv doesn't support more restrictive gun laws.

Transfer student Adrian Bazbaz wasn't used to the late night cramming sessions and sleep deprived lifestyles of his fellow classmates at the school, so he decided to do something about it.

But did my classmates care about the subject of such poetry?

Probably, if you don't mind your kid being ridiculed by all of her or his classmates and nobody sitting anywhere near you at the next PTA meeting.

My college classmate overstated the case: God does not call us to stop thinking or to risk our lives and welfare pointlessly But my classmate may have seen something of what my son Sean demonstrated: a sense of safety so deep that we can be, for a time, beyond anxiety.

Even if we are the special few who were not raised with the media as our pacifiers, we definitely had friends, family members, teachers, classmates, colleagues and so on, who were raised believing this is just commonplace behavior, influencing our early - forming minds in the process of simply doing life together.

And even for those of us who do (three of my college classmates died that day, Tom Glasser, Doug Gardner, and Calvin Gooding), to go there and remember will involve complex patriotic emotions.

But how would it appear if you didn't take the time to learn the names of your co-workers, or your classmates?

He's refusing to do so because if he loses his classmates will make fun of him.

Your classmates make fun of you if you don't catch on right away and girls start to think of you as a bore.

Even though I was doing different things, my classmates who weren't Muslim never thought of me as different and I didn't think much of it.

Most of what children end up telling their classmates and teachers is what they can't do.

Do you understand what kind hell his classmates will put him through with year after year of incessant teasing for a name like Messiah?

And by the looks on the faces of classmate David (left) and Larry, you would think the vinaigrette was a challenge to make but don't be fooled, it's easy.

With one card from us, and Valentines from classmates and grandparents, we did get to sit and enjoy watching The Bug open his cards and a few small trinkets, and then devour part of a chocolate heart.

Some of his teachers and classmates say he should get a medal, but Williams modestly said he did not need one.

So, just because your child isn't as skillful of a reader as his classmates or his siblings were at his age doesn't necessarily mean that he has a learning disorder.

It didn't take long for her to come home complaining that one of her classmates pushed her, or that another classmate was just being mean «for no reason.»

But such a system assumes a level of financial ability that simply doesn't apply to most of my son's classmates.

Here are some of my favorite projects you can do with your kids to gift for Dad, teacher and little classmates.

Nor did it occur to any of my classmates who knew about the incident to discuss it with any authority figure.

Emily, we're lucky here in sunny California: it rains very rarely in July and August, so we really don't need a rain plan Freedomforkids, it just so happens that my daughter is very close with a bunch of her girl classmates, which I understand is typical for 1st & 2nd graders.

I remember wearing a little pink top and red shorts to school and my classmates (especially the girls of course) laughed at me and said pink and red don't go together.

So instead of saying «I don't love you anymore because you are badly behaved,» try «I love you no matter what, BUT I need you to be more gentle when you speak to your classmates next time.

As I mentioned it doesn't contain any nuts so you could even make a bunch and put them into some cute cellophane bags and have your child pass them out to classmates on their first day of school.

When I was growing up, I don't remember hearing of friends or classmates who had to handle these types of family challenges or stresses.

Your kid's classmate's mom may have hand crafted Lighting McQueen invitations out of unicorn blood and glitter glue and stitched personalized Tow Mater steering wheel cozies for each party guest to cherish and use when they turn 16, but that doesn't mean you have to.

In far too many school districts, there are students who would qualify for free meals, except for the fact that their family never fills out the form, either because they forget, or they don't understand that it is important, or (more often) the child is too embarrassed to self - identify as poor in front of his classmates, and so he either doesn't give his parents the form or doesn't turn it in at school.

Mrs. Jennings instructions had hit the five - year - old me right where I lived, while it went right over the heads of most of my classmates: she knew this, which is why she didn't scold or correct.

My boys do not have special needs, or at least any I am aware of, but many of their classmates and friends do.

They can hardly have imagined that their 1983 classmate Jeremy Corbyn would succeed them at the Labour helm — or that he would do so by proposing to reverse much of the work they did to transform the party.

«Most people don't realize that in the»80s and»90s Gentile had an impressive record as a prosecutor in the Queens D.A.'s office,» he said, pointing in particular to the now - councilman's prominent case against three white St. John's University lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a black classmate in 1990.

As classmates swapped Panini stickers featuring the faces of men of whom I had genuinely never heard, and who played for teams named after towns I didn't even know existed, I would be discussing the finer plot points of the latest Tom Baker adventure, perhaps even questioning whether the Key to Time should have provided the story arc for an entire season...

«Justice Atuguba has seniority over me because instead of continuing straight from the fourth year as we used to call it, of law school, to the fifth year which is the professional year or rather the final part of the professional course, I broke and went to do my master's so when I came back they — my first classmates — had already been called to the bar so I was called to the bar with Ato Dadzie and that younger generation,» she told parliament's Appointment Committee on Friday, 16 June when Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu asked her to clarify to the committee whether she or Justice Atuguba was senior to the other.