Sentences with phrase «of my classmates went»

For myself, it was combination of refinancing, doing some side hustles to throw some more cash into debt, and avoiding the lifestyle inflation that a lot of my classmates went through.

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«You're seeing all of your classmates coming in and saying this is the job I want and they went and got it,» Webb says of the tough decision to pass up the offer.

CEO Shah and his Cornell classmate Steve Conine started out with racksandstands.com in 2002 and quickly expanded, buying dozens of niche domain names and launching many from scratch—simplydogbeds.com, justshagrugs.com, dinnerplates.com — and in 2011 changing the company name from CSN Stores to Wayfair (700 employees went on a Boston bar crawl in Wayfair T - shirts to help market the new name).

He also launched a series of startups — from selling computers to his classmates going off to college to Zotspot, an internet search engine.

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.»

I remember one moment very vividly: I was in the bathroom when I heard a few of my classmates complaining about having to go to class and discussing how many more points they needed to pass the course.

The last of those incidents prompted then - classmate and future Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to go up to D'Souza at a coffee shop and ask him «how it felt to be such a dick,» an event Geithner recounted in his memoir Stress Test and in an interview with Vox:

Before going into that White House listening session with classmates and parents of the latest mass school massacre victims in Florida, President Donald Trump had a brief cheat - sheet from an aide advising him to tell them: «I hear you.»

He was also wanted them to put skin in the game by investing in CDL companies they liked, though he made a handful of exceptions for entrepreneurs whose companies hadn't yet paid out from a sale or IPO, such as Geordie Rose, a former UBC classmate who had gone on to co-found quantum - computer maker D - Wave Systems.

-- State Attorney General Xavier Becerra on the federal government report filed Monday detailing numbers of Dreamers who have been able to renew their status — and are guaranteed two more years of DACA protection: «As a result of the nationwide injunction we secured, at least 30,000 Dreamers who have renewed their DACA status — our colleagues, our classmates, our teachers — can go home to their loved ones at night and keep helping build a better America.

For a large part of the past school year, my daughter and her classmates went to school under police protection.

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.

That pitch came from the left arm of Ross Baumgarten, a junior high school classmate in a suburb north of Chicago, who went on to pitch for the hometown White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates.

So I went back and upon entering I noticed a classmate of mine was also there and he was standing in and facing the corner.

None of my classmates were going to church, much less seminary.

(To be sure, few would want to go so far as a seminary classmate of mine who regularly, and without acknowledging his source, preached Fosdick's sermons in his student church because he figured that his little congregation «deserved the best.»

Israeli children as a matter of policy remain with the same classmates from kindergarten through high school, and go into the army together and usually remain there together in the same unit (some experts ascribe the disproportionate military effectiveness of Israel's army to this practice).

It has taken every ounce of my willpower not to go to a yoga class the past couple days but I know that my body needs the rest and my instructors and classmates would not appreciate my attendance while sick!

The bonds you create over eight years of friendship / classmate relationships can be strong, taut with a history of small scuffles and disputes that only strengthen your assurance that those humans are going to stick it out with you.

Since I think I'm going to gracefully bow out of the reunion festivities, here's the CliffsNotes of what I might have said to my old classmates.

My classmate, Melissa Thoen, reminded me of another all - time favorite: «One trick that I keep going back to is using agar in everything from vegan buttercream to homemade marshmallows,» she says.

A lot of players want to go to institutions that they are going to graduate from, next to their teammates and classmates.

On Manhattan's Upper West Side, where youth soccer went on at Riverside Park, some of the players had classmates whose parents were missing.

His basic statistics — team - high per - game averages of 16.2 points, 7.5 rebounds, 1.8 steals, and 42.2 three - point shooting, to go with 2.7 assists per contest — tell only part of the story, as Porter's production truly took off once classmate Greg Whittington was ruled academically ineligible.

Two days ago it seemed sure that the worst homework assignment of the year would be the «go on a date with a classmate and act ladylike» assignment from a Utah Financial Literacy class, but the week isn't even out yet, and a Pennsylvania math teacher is joining the competition with a high school math problem about sexual assault.

and would he respond so nonchallantly if a classmate were to uncover a magazine shot of you breastfeeding him at 3yo and he knew it was about to go viral?

Rosenworcel told stories of kids around the country going to diners and parking lots to access the internet service they need to complete school assignments — and how fixes like Wi - Fi on school buses could help those kids keep up with their classmates.

Before high school, a child is not likely to fully appreciate that if she plays on a select team she may often be practicing or going to bed early, worn out after a hard day of exercise, while her classmates are watching TV or socializing, or she may be getting up early, while others are giving their growing bodies the rest they so desperately need.

Valentine's Day Dollar Tree Style Gone are the days of buying a bog box of Valentines, writing your classmates names on them, and crossing that

I still cringe at my failure to completely understand what was going on at my daughter's school and to react to things that were happening to some of her classmates behind the teachers» backs.

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.

Friesen says, «Freshman Academy allows students to go through their classes in a small cohort with the support of their professors, a faculty Learning Coach, and their classmates.

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.

It will also relieve the sense of stigma and shame that often leads children to refuse subsidized meals — and go hungry — rather than let classmates find out that their families are poor.

«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.

The proportion of poor teenagers who go to university has been rising at a far higher rate than that of their better - off classmates, a statistical analysis by Labour shows.

I felt no one cared to... get to know me and I didn't feel compelled to go out of my way to make friends among my classmates.

One of my classmates working for a tenured professor comes and goes as she pleases and may not see her advisor for a month.

Sons of Samurai He was, however, destined to go places, along with his high school and college classmate Hideki Yukawa.

Some of my classmates and I would go to an indoor mall and watch people walk by, assessing them with our newfound understanding of human anatomy.

December: Another semester of naturopathic medical school has come and gone as my classmates and I celebrate the anniversary of our 70th exam in 2.5 years!

The night before Susan and Rob allowed their son to go to preschool in a dress, they sent an e-mail to parents of his classmates.

Mychal Bell, 17, the first of the classmates to go on trial, was quickly convicted in a kangaroo court by an all - white jury presided over by a white judge in less than three hours.

She ultimately goes looking for him at «Silent Hill» with the help of a new classmate, Vincent (Kit Harrington), that she meets on her first day at a new high school.

It starts off with a class field trip to Paris that gets a boy named Alex (Sawa, The Guilty) and some of his classmates thrown off when he has a premonition that the plane is going to crash and freaks out.

But given the fervently anti-Iranian sentiment stoked by the hostage crisis in Tehran, Ali's new neighbors and classmates prove less than hospitable, as the proliferation of signs reading «We Don't Serve Iranians» and «Terrorists Go Home» reveal.

Happy to reconnect, the two twentysomething former classmates are soon going into business with one another, as Ephraim gives David a crash course on the process of the United States military handing out lucrative weapon contracts to the highest bidders on an active and public website.

A thank - you dinner later goes just as disastrously for Brad, but an extended conversation with an old classmate / friend of Troy's and Harvard music student, Anaya (Shazi Raja), contrasts Brad's world - weary cynicism against Anaya's youthful, exuberant idealism.

Adrift, Sutter goes off on a «spectacular» bender, after which he is found on a suburban lawn by Aimee (a luminous Shailene Woodley, who last wowed audiences in The Descendants), a classmate of his whom he has no memory of ever having met.

A number of his friends and classmates are going off to die in the Korean War, something that terrifies his father.