Sentences with phrase «surrounded by college students»

Though I no longer stand in front of a classroom of Chinese college students, I am still teaching... and surrounded by college students (I mean, recent graduates) that continue to make me feel young.

In my defense, I still live in a college town and am constantly surrounded by college students!

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The team out of the University of California, Berkeley and University College London tested how people mentally estimate distance and travel times by having 20 foreign students in London draw, in detail, the neighborhood surrounding their residence.

Belmont University student William Dodd said it's inspiring to be surrounded by so many other college students who are gathered for the same purpose, and he is leaving with a desire to «get in the fight to end (slavery).

Private school students are also more likely to be completely surrounded by highly motivated, college - bound peers, which research published in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's «How Peers Affect Student Performance» fall 2012 series suggests raises their expectations and performance.

It's time for the Senate and the White House to do its job,» House Speaker John Boehner said at a news conference on the steps of the Capitol surrounded by other House GOP leaders and college - age students.

The first semester of college is a time of great transition for many students — they often are living away from home for the first time, have a much more fluid schedule than in high school and are potentially surrounded by a new peer group.

A few years ago, you would have been correct to guess college students or those in their early 20s, a group surrounded by peers and in the prime of their bar - hopping years.

A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood - soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride featuring a red - hot young cast including Sara Paxton (Superhero Movie, Last House on the Left), Dustin Milligan («90210,» Slither), Chris Carmack («The O.C.»), Joel David Moore (Avatar) and Katharine McPhee (The House Bunny).

Waking up on the side of the highway overlooking the Projects, Marv realizes he's surrounded by dead college students and there are two wrecked cars into the guardrail.

A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood - soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride from director David Ellis («The Final Destination», «Snakes On a Plane»), featuring a red - hot young cast including Sara Paxton («Superhero Movie»,» Last House on the Left»), Dustin Milligan («90210,» «Slither»), Chris Carmack («The O.C.»), Joel David Moore («Avatar»), Chris Zylka («The Amazing Spider Man») and Katharine McPhee («The House Bunny»).

Research suggests that low - income students in mixed - income schools — surrounded by peers who expect to go on to college, parents in the school community who regularly volunteer in class, and strong teachers — perform substantially better than comparable students in high - poverty schools that often lack those ingredients for success.

Snyder said these educators should be commended but the bigger issue was figuring out a system of sustainable support, to help students surrounded by family and friends without college diplomas get through to earning their own.

At a time when the majority of American college students are female — currently 57 percent of all students — higher education's conversation surrounding women's rights is largely dominated by modern feminist ideology.

According to Gagnon & Mattingly (2015), even when students from low - income backgrounds have near - identical access to AP courses compared with higher - income peers, they are about three times less likely to enroll in these courses.17 In a study of several high schools attempting to detrack, Yonezawa et al. (2002) found that several factors prevented underrepresented students from moving into higher - track courses, among them the students» own unwillingness and intimidation by the atmosphere surrounding higher - track classes.18 The same pattern emerges for college application.

College towns are always surrounded by tons of restaurants and shops that are looking to hire students.

At every college, students are surrounded by clubs and organizations they can join.