At 58, Debbie McDonald had reservations about going back to school, especially knowing she would be
older than her classmates and likely even older than her instructors.
I was not only
older than my classmates (and most of the professors) but had been steeped in the evolutionary aspects of biology for many years, both as a biology teacher and as a wife and mother of biologists.
While there are some other, ahem, mature students in my classes, on average I am much
older than my classmates.
Campus gamblers seem old in much the same sense that college football players who weigh 280 pounds and bench - press sport - utility vehicles seem
older than their classmates.
Not exact matches
In Miami's Liberty City neighborhood, where the debate over guns is
old and fraught, protesting the shooting death of a student proved far more challenging
than his
classmates expected.
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 film directed by J.A. Bayona (who will direct Jurassic World 2 next) is based on the book of the same name by Patrick Ness and follows a 12 - year -
old boy (Lewis MacDougall) who in dealing with his mother's (Felicity Jones) terminal illness, his less -
than sympathetic grandmother (Sigourney Weaver), and bullying
classmates, finds a friend in a nocturnal monster (voiced by Liam Neeson).
«12 - year -
old Conor (Lewis MacDougall), who is dealing with his mother's (Felicity Jones) illness, a less -
than - sympathetic grandmother (Sigourney Weaver), and bullying
classmates.
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.
School officials said the 6 - year -
old, who weighs slightly more
than 100 pounds, hit and bit his teacher, threw chairs and desks, hit his
classmates, and kicked staff members at Circle View Elementary School.
Results of national tests known as Sats taken by 10 and 11 - year -
olds in England show that children on free school meals do less well
than their
classmates, and the pattern continues to GCSE level.
Fortunately, he has a competent, caring network of friends, family and neighbors: Lisa, his unlucky - in - love
classmate, who moves in with him to help him care for little Frankie around the clock; his American cousin, Emily, always there with a pep talk; the newly retired Dr. Hat, with more time on his hands
than he knows what to do with; Dr. Declan and Fiona and their baby son, Frankie's first friend; and many eager babysitters, including
old friends Signora and Aidan and Frankie's doting grandparents, Josie and Charles.
She was created for a purpose so revolutionary, someone was willing to kill for it.Seventeen - year -
old Lexi Matthews keeps two secrets from her elite boarding school
classmates she s the daughter of a famous and controversial geneticist, and she can influence people s thoughts.But after new student Jack DeWeese heals her broken arm with an anything - but - simple touch, he forces Lexi to face a new reality her abilities reach much further
than speaking to the minds of others.After Lexi s father goes missing and she receives threatening emails, she can t decide whether to fall into Jack s arms or run and hide.As Lexi seeks answers to what she and Jack are, she discovers a truth more unsettling
than anything her science books can teach.
At the ripe
old age of 29, I was learning a lot, and possibly more
than the rest of my
classmates, because I had spent a lot of time studying investments already, both on an academic and practical basis.
I was
older than many of my fellow
classmates» grandparents, but that meant I could tell them about early antibiotics — that's just penicillin, sulfa, and streptomycin — as well as stories about my college president, Dwight Eisenhower, who then became the President of the United States.
If your pup will be
older than 18 weeks at the start of class, then we recommend enrolling in a Dog 1 class instead so that your dog is with appropriate aged
classmates.
At this point, she was almost 20 years
older than many of her
classmates and already knew many of her professors from her previous life at Ferus.
He's only 15 years
old, but when the shooting began on Feb. 14, Anthony transformed from a normal teenager into an extraordinary hero who saved the lives of more
than 20 of his
classmates.
The gap between mature and non-mature business students is even wider, with
older university leavers earning almost # 5,000 a year more
than their younger
classmates.