Sentences with phrase «spent years in college»

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If you want to commemorate the years they've spent in college, or, if they're going far from home for a job opportunity — frame a nice picture of their loved ones.

After graduating from Dartmouth College in 2009, Grace spent a year in Youngstown, Ohio as a business reporter for The Vindicator before joining Business Insider in January 2011.

And who knows how many people would have become more ill, or even died, had Riley waited until he was done with college, or grad school or spent years in the workforce before pursuing his goal?

The irony of spending years in high school and college before getting a job is that what employers want most isn't any specific (or even highly specialized) body of knowledge; they want employees who can learn on the job.

According to data collected by USAToday.com, the schools with that make the most money in college sports spent an average of just $ 12.0 million (10.2 %) on scholarships last year.

You may be able to send your kids to a great college, but if they've never spent an afternoon with you in 18 years, is it worth it?

Families with kids in kindergarten through 12th grade will spend an average $ 634.78, versus $ 688.62 in 2012, while families of college students will spend $ 836.83, down from $ 907.22 last year.

Starting in the mid-1980s, researchers from University College London spent twenty years examining the relationship between sleep patterns and life expectancy in more than 10,000 British civil servants.

To put that wedding spending in perspective, the cost to attend a private four - year college averaged $ 45,365 for the 2016 - 17 academic year, including tuition, fees and room and board, according to data from The Collegecollege averaged $ 45,365 for the 2016 - 17 academic year, including tuition, fees and room and board, according to data from The CollegeCollege Board.

So, if you figure you're going to need $ 50,000 to pay for her first year of college in 2008, then you'd need to spend about $ 19,050 today to buy a bond to cover that.

In the middle of my sophomore year of college, I had a life - altering epiphany: I had spent the majority of my life thus far pursuing a career as a performer.

After graduating from Middlebury College with a major in geography in 2003, he spent a couple of years working for the Conservation Fund, a nonprofit that helps fund land and water conservation projects.

I grew up on a farm in Cornwell, Conn. and after majoring in environmental science in college, I spent several years leading high school students on expeditions into the woods to teach them about the environment.

The state expects to spend $ 10 million a year in scholarships, which will be awarded to anyone who doesn't hold a college degree or certificate.

But, in the UK, this isn't as much of a thing, said Tarn Rodgers Johns, a London writer and social media manager who spent a year of college in Colorado.

Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad — who met 25 years ago at Bain and Company, their first job out of college, and have spent two decades in the venture capital industry — said they wanted to return to hands - on investing in companies when they are just starting and as they mature.

It's a real word, and The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College uses it for a novel approach to figuring out how much of one's savings can be spent each year in retirement.

With the back - to - college spend estimated to reach $ 6.6 billion this year, competition among retailers is already heating up like nothing I recall in recent memory.

Analysis from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (ERBI), Boston College Center for Retirement Research and others suggests that a 65 year old couple will spend around $ 250,000 on healthcare alone in retirement.

Sam loved investing so much that he decided to make a career out of investing by spending the next 13 years after college working at two of the leading financial service firms in the world.

All that money flowing into colleges and universities is being funneled away from other industries where it would have been spent in future years.

He spent years obtaining a master's degree in SDA theology from one of their two accredited colleges.

If you want to get a sneak peek at what the Christian community will be talking about in 5 - 10 years, just spend some time on a Christian college campus.From evolution to religious pluralism to homosexuality, the issues that play out on the national scene often begin in classrooms, late - night dorm room discussions, and chapel services.

I have a personal interest to declare here: I spent five years of my life, in the late fifties and early sixties, first as an undergraduate then as a postgraduate student at Trinity College, Dublin, still a firmly protestant institution.

After college, I spent five years as a pastor before enrolling in a leading Christian seminary to get a four - year Master's degree in Bible and Theology.

Earlier this year I was in charge of «debriefing» a small group of evangelical college students who had spent their spring break working with various agencies serving the homeless in inner - city Washington.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

So, what you're saying is that I should take Dr. Dipwad's theory as the Gospel because he spent a few years in college and in a lab away from the real world.

I spent many years in the charismatic movement, serving it in various capacities, even attending a Pentecostal Bible College.

This woman has spent most of her life in church, seminary, theology, taught christianity for five years for college.

When I was in college, I had some really terrible things happen, and I spent 3 years asking God, why?

In one eastern college the students, far above average in wealth and brains, spent a year deciding the subject for a week's religious program and came up with the title, «Anxiety, Despair and Faith: the Search for Meaning in Life.&raquIn one eastern college the students, far above average in wealth and brains, spent a year deciding the subject for a week's religious program and came up with the title, «Anxiety, Despair and Faith: the Search for Meaning in Life.&raquin wealth and brains, spent a year deciding the subject for a week's religious program and came up with the title, «Anxiety, Despair and Faith: the Search for Meaning in Life.&raquin Life.»

Isn't that offensive and hurtful to those, like me, that have college degrees (engineering in my case) and have spent 40 years studying the Bible and worshiping God?

How can one's college years be spent in such a way that they are not a period of diminishment from religious understanding or a laming of true piety?

(She is now a normal well - adjusted college student with no lasting ill - effects from so much time spent in Menard's during her developmental years — although she has an amazing knowledge of home improvement terms!)

My junior year of college, I spent the second semester living in Spain, studying abroad in the southern city of Granada.

Peaches... I became obsessed with them during my college years spent in Georgia.

Her first year of college was spent in pain and frequently ill.

During my summer breaks during college and law school (aka my formative drinking years), my friends and I spent many nights at the Jersey Shore (no, not that Jersey Shore, ugh, this one) kicking back and enjoying some whiskey sours before partaking in our usual shenanigans.

I have always loved to cook and bake and a year spent in Italy and France as part of my modern languages degree, tasting the world's finest patisserie, inspired me to enrol at Westminster Kingsway College, London, on the Professional Patisserie Scholarship.

I spent my early years in Statesboro, Ga., when my father taught at Georgia Southern College.

I've spent the last 10 years living down the road from the largest farmers» market in the state and have watched as the restaurant scene in this unassuming college town continues to flourish.

After two years of college, he'd spent his 20s in the city trading bond futures in the open - outcry pits at the LIFFE Exchange.

Upon leaving Notre Dame two years ago in the wake of a scandal — he pleaded guilty to charges that he made purchases on other students» credit cards — Gottlieb spent a year at Golden West College, a community college in Huntington Beach, Calif., scouting teams on TV in search of one that needed a point guard to step in righCollege, a community college in Huntington Beach, Calif., scouting teams on TV in search of one that needed a point guard to step in righcollege in Huntington Beach, Calif., scouting teams on TV in search of one that needed a point guard to step in right away.

Edmunds also spent 3 years in college, and ended his career with 213 Tackles, 33 TFL's, and 10 Sacks while mostly playing Middle LB.

He took this job after spending years staunchly opposing a playoff in college football while acting as executive director of the BCS, using increasingly absurd arguments to defend his ideological (and financial) position.

The fact that Rudolph spent four years at Oklahoma State, albeit in a simpler college system, allowed him to learn the process of game planning and field generalship in a way that might make it easier to expand his game in a pro offense.

Instead of reporting right away, he and his wife, Michelle, spent a week in New York City, seeing a movie (The Devil and Max Devlin) and a musical (A Chorus Line) while Ainge waited to receive Kodak's player of the year award, voted to him by the college coaches.

College was always going to be a layover year for Ball, but UCLA is happy he's spending it in Westwood.

After spending four years at a very academically competitive public high school, I found it astonishing how every action in many teenagers» lives revolves around one common goal: college acceptance.