Sentences with phrase «older classmates»

Because older classmates tend to be higher achieving and better behaved.

The authors also find that when it comes to social and emotional development, younger students gain an advantage by being exposed to older classmates.

And two studies cited above — the one by Elder and Lubotsky and the one by Cascio and Schanzenbach — find that, with age held constant, learning with older classmates boosts students» test scores.

Facebook is not just for spying on old classmates and chatting with friends anymore.

While job hunting has changed significantly since 1973, the importance of passive connections has not: it's rare that your best friend will refer you to your next job, but much more likely that an old classmate, neighbor, or friend of a friend will.

Yes, on a few occasions, her barbed ways afford wicked humor, as during a monstrously affected «Ladies» Tea» that her aunt organizes so Scout can catch up with old classmates: «Their makeup would have put an Egyptian draftsman to shame,» she thinks, while failing to join their small talk and flinching at their only question, «well, how's new york?»

I avoid all class reunions and honestly wouldn't know what to say after basic small talk but I love your message to your old classmates and those cinnamon rolls look irresistable.

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.

Terry's career as a successful political operative dates back to 1972, when he served as the campaign manager for an 18 - year - old classmate, Thomas DiNapoli, who was running for the Mineola School Board.

Readers of this site will not be surprised to learn that an old classmate and donor to Daniel Squadron's campaign is, of all things, a Brooklyn - based producer of an artisanal, boutique and extremely expensive (for tonic water) tonic water.

Last week, while Benue State was submerged by flood, the President travelled to his hometown where he was receiving his old classmates.

After being out of the work force for a year, Wells reconnected with an old classmate and «fell into an opportunity as a part - time technician at the University of Montana.»

Recalling the names of old classmates 50 years after graduation or of favorite childhood television series illustrates the amazing abilities of human memory.

Some people don't only use social media to get back in touch with their old classmates from high school, but also to get in touch with people who are looking for love online.

Then, when Cheryl saw her old classmate on TV, she got back in touch because she felt discouraged with the dating scene and wanted to try something different.

For some, it's reconnecting with an old classmate that sparks romance.

Next, make a list of people both you and your friends knew as they might have kept in touch or know where your old classmates are.

And of course Deanna will fall for her archaeology professor (Chris Parnell), who's an old classmate of hers.

A group of old classmates reunite at their teacher's funeral and talk about his bizarre life.

At the 10th anniversary of the Clear View High School class of 1987, old classmates come together for a long night of confessed secrets and life - changing revelations.

Elsewhere down trodden house officer Martin goes on the Internet to see if his old classmates have had worse careers than himself and hospital administrator Joanna Clore has fun with a vibrating bed.

The project follows the same story as the 1996 film starring Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn, which followed three former friends who reunite at an old classmate's funeral; there, they commiserate about their new status as divorcées and hatch the ultimate revenge plots against their exes.

Through it all, there's the underlying fact that Naritsugu's top bodyguard (Ichimura) is an old classmate of Shinzaemon; so their increasingly tense face - offs revive and twist their school rivalry and strain their code of honour.

He meets a young hitchhiker (Liane Balaban, Saint Jude, After the Harvest), a waitress (Karen Allen, In the Bedroom, The Perfect Storm), and an old classmate, Jack (James LeGros, Scotland, PA, If You Only Knew).

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.

With her big scheme seemingly unravelling, Mavis finds solace in old classmate, drinking buddy and consummate realist Patton Oswalt, even as she plots to make Buddy love her once again.

The film also stars the «Looper» actor as a modern - day New Jersey Casanova, who's unable to form real relationships with women due to his porn addiction, but begins to soften up after meeting two women, a younger girl (Scarlett Johansson) and an older classmate (Julianne Moore), and we'd picked it out as one of the films likely to spark a bidding war.

This movie is about Nathan Zuckerman (David Strathairn) going back to a class reunion to connect with old classmates.

She's awaken from a drunken night in the bed of Carter (Israel Broussard), an old classmate.

Ted Jr.'s wife Janet (Adelaide Clemens) reaches out to Daniel, as does an old classmate turned hair stylist.

There's also John's old classmate Needleman (Ethan Suplee), who works at a pizza shop in town and helps John dig up dirt on Woodcock.

But then he thinks the magic ticket lies in getting old classmate Oliver Lawless (James Marsden), who seems to be a successful actor in Los Angeles, to come to the next high school reunion.

McAdams beguiles as Neil's old classmate who stirs fresh passions, but the character is little more than a device to set in motion the romantic triangle.

I suspect that it will be a sticking point with many detractors, much like Margie's lunch with her old classmate in Fargo.

By their early 20s, these girls will have two or three children, and feel an entire world apart from their old classmate Tamara.

Next to her, 17 - year - old classmate Randy Stark checked the videocamera and...

After hearing from educators in Massachusetts, Mississippi, and my old classmate in Ohio, I took a brief snapshot of other states, including Maine, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York.

Brianna and her four - year - old classmates are sitting in a circle around their preschool teacher.

The fourth book in the series opens as London psychotherapist Frieda is not looking forward to catching up with old classmate, Maddie Capel.

In «Wolf and Rhonda,» the lead character Wilfred Jones is haunted by his treatment of an old classmate, but her summary dismissal of his advances at a class reunion crushes his ego even more.

Well it's tough to stay connected with your friends all the time but this app called Photo4tune has helped me get in touch with my old classmates.

The story centers on a group of 13 and 14 year old classmates struggling with what to do when one of them, Pierre, suddenly declares that «life is meaningless,» and promptly climbs a plum tree.

The Huangs beg Jing - nan to do some investigating on his own - reconnect with old classmates, see if he can learn anything about Julia's life that she might have kept from them.

But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate - socialite do - gooder Paxton Osgood - of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top - flight inn.

I was at a class reunion and an old classmate gave me one of these cards that led to his e-book for free.

Given Carly Berwick's branding in New York magazine of the 2008 Whitney Biennial as the exhibition's Facebook installment (a characterization prompted in part by cocurator Shamim Momin's legendary predilection for what she terms «the embrace of locality»), it was perhaps unsurprising that Tuesday night's VIP opening was packed not only with boldface names but also, seemingly, with all their old classmates.

He visited the Jewish Museum to see Jasper John's White Flag and met an old classmate who was working as a museum guard.

This write - up by an old classmate of mine, the Nature reporter Jeff Tollefson, offers a deeper look at a project supported by the Moore Foundation and led by the scientist Gregory P. Asner.

If you do not have access to an established mentor program, you can create your own «mentoring» opportunities by contacting old classmates, law school faculty and staff, or other peers in solo practice.

Facebook can bring you referrals and clients by helping you to reconnect with old classmates, colleagues, and friends through direct contact both formal (messages) and informal (wall posts), events, and interest groups.