Sentences with phrase «than college classes»

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I frequently speak about this when I lecture on college campuses, but even if you are not a full - time employee at a major company, internships will get you so much farther than any book you read or class you take.

Companies aren't charging students to be interns, like colleges charge them to be students, and at the end of it, an internship will make you far more marketable than an A in any number of classes.

Our background was in software, and we had no experience building hardware other than a class in college.

Borrowers who are out of college or are attending classes less than half - time can consolidate their federal student loans.

When Schultz references an education initiative he recently launched, in which Starbucks will cover tuition for its U.S. employees working more than 20 hours per week who enroll in an online college - degree program from Arizona State University, Tatum asks whether Starbucks considered paying for them to attend traditional, class - based institutions with proven track records and lower attrition rates, like Spelman.

The acceptance rate of less than 2 percent is lower than Harvard College's 5.9 percent for the coming year's freshman class.

Comparative religion classes are taught in colleges and universities and by people far better qualified than you'll ever be.

But as someone who has taken more math classes in college than he is willing to admit, I can declare without equivocation that EVERY circle is perfect.

Almost immediately after his arrival, Abdulrahman began a certification class as a CNA and less than two months later had enrolled full time as a Medical Assistant student at Everest College in Renton.

We send eighteen - year - olds off to college rather than to professional schools, and, for a large part of four years, students take classes in subjects with no obvious relevance to their future jobs.

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...

1989 was the same summer that Spike Lee's race - relations film, DO THE RIGHT THING came out, I had just read Malcolm X's Autobiography for a class, my IVCF chapter was more and more seeking to explore the implications of «multi-ethnicity» for campus ministry, and as a college radio DJ I had been exposed to more of the best rap than most white suburbanites — that is, a number of threads came together for me at that time to allow me to be a right - on - the - sidelines spectator of the rap youth culture phenomenon.

Many of my fellow classmates in the same graduating class are looking for a college to join rather than to decide which part of the army they should apply, which makes me a happy camper but a younger friend of mine has already decided to apply himself in the army i asked him why and he just simply replied that it was for the country.

I had taken photography classes through college with my SLR 35 mm camera, but the digital version had way more bells and whistles than what I was used to.

For more than 25 of them she has been teaching at Santa Rosa Junior College as adjunct chef instructor specializing in vegetarian and vegetable classes.

Tommy Jones, his manager at Class AA Memphis for two months last summer, observed that Jackson probably reached the majors with less baseball experience — 89 games in college, 53 with the Chicks — than any hitter since Eddie Gaedel.

I do believe that it's enhanced opportunities for a lot of kids, but maybe more than anything, it's taken the opportunity for the college coaches and folks like ourselves to get an early start on building a database, putting together each and every class.»

Having just arrived from my half - day of classes from college at around 3:00 PM, I was terribly tired, more than even on normal days, and remember this was the middle of the summer, which in my city, is excruciatingly draining.

But dual enrollment courses can be less structured than other college - level curricula offered in high school, such as Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) classes.

Depending on the class, the instructor, and the accrediting institution, dual enrollment classes might not be considered more challenging than others — especially AP or IB classes — by the student or by college admissions offices.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

The initiative seeks to export the business model used to develop the nanotechnology sector in Albany, which has grown the past 12 years to include some 13,000 jobs at more than 60 companies and the development of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of SUNY Albany into a world - class university program.

While middle - class families earning adjusted gross incomes more than $ 65,000 who now qualify for little in state tuition assistance would benefit, the state's private colleges and universities may be at a disadvantage, said Research Director E.J. McMahon.

Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by liberals.

The marquee point in what Cuomo calls the «Middle Class Recovery Act» is an expansion of college tuition subsidies that the governor says will make it «free» for students from families making less than $ 125,000 a year.

The demonstrations have virtually taken over Lower Manhattan for more than two weeks and grown into thousands Wednesday night as college students walked out of class and labor unions took the streets in solidarity with the anti-Wall Street protest.

In announcing his plan last week to cover the tuition of students accepted at a state or city college or university — provided their families earn no more than $ 125,000 a year — Governor Cuomo said: «This is a message that is going to provide hope and optimism for working - class families all across the state.»

The governor says the money is needed to pay for a middle class tax cut, agreed to last year and which is scheduled to begin phasing in later this year, as well as a plan to provide free tuition at public colleges for New Yorkers earning less than $ 125,000 a year and to spend more on public schools.

Tisch says that only slightly more than one third, or 37.2 percent, of today's ninth graders will graduate high school college or career ready, and most of those who attend higher education institutions will have to take costly remedial classes.

So rather than give up on school he enrolled in the Buffalo school district's Career Collegiate Institute, where he will earn a high school equivalency degree while taking classes to prepare him for college.

Coming from a high school with a graduating class of about 60 students, I opted for a small undergraduate college rather than a university.

As she grew up, she lost the ability to speak French fluently; although she took French in college, she was no more fluent than any other college student who has had some classes.

College students who receive special accommodations because of a learning disability say they have less difficulty completing assignments and more contact with faculty outside of class than peers who don't receive extra help.

An analysis of more than 600 class I (procedure / treatment should be performed / administered) American College of Cardiology / American Heart Association guideline recommendations published or revised since 1998 finds that about 80 percent were retained at the time of the next guideline revision, and that recommendations not supported by multiple randomized studies were more likely to be downgraded, reversed, or omitted, according to a study in the May 28 issue of JAMA.

Indeed, this year's class is larger than the first group of faculty hired in 1957, shortly after the college's founding.

«Whether you are intentionally misusing the educational software to get through that learning is a better predictor of whether you'll go to college than how much you show up to class,» he says.

The decline and disappearance of stable, unionized full - time jobs with health insurance and pensions for people who lack a college degree has had profound effects on working - class Americans who now are less likely to get married, stay married, and have their children within marriage than those with college degrees, a new University of Virginia and Harvard University study has found.

The authors raise the possibility that for men without a four - year college degree, frontline allied healthcare jobs may be the ticket to a stable middle - class lifestyle as they pay better and are more stable than blue collar work.

New Ph.D. researchers with «stronger academic ability,» as indicated by having received university support in the form of a fellowship or assistantship or by having at least one parent with a college degree (which, especially in poor or middle - income countries, places the family among an educated class that is much smaller than in a rich country) are likelier to stay than those who lack these presumed correlates of academic strength.

An analysis of more than 2,000 college classes in science, technology, engineering and math has imparted a lesson that might resonate with many students who sat through them: Enough with the lectures, already.

According to the American College of Sports Medicine we need to do 20 minutes three times a week which isn't a big investment of time and a whole lot less than the typical aerobics class aficionado or runner does per week.

While I still dabble a little in DIY, nowadays I stick with plant - based products I know and love — owing in part to the fact that I no longer have hours to kill between college classes, but mainly because there are so many brands crafting far more incredible all - natural formulas than I, the scrappy amateur, ever could.

The classes are very challenging more so than other colleges but there is so much to learn on what kind of healthy organic foods to consume and so much more.

i think ive learned more from this, than all the classes i am taking in college in exercise science.

Back in college, when I first started riding my bike for longer distances than just between my dorm room and classes, I would wear my regular workout shorts.

When I teach my college class, I try to look business formal because I want the students to think I'm much older than them and -LSB-...]

When I teach my college class, I try to look business formal because I want the students to think I'm much older than them and not just a peer.

Mobile dating is good for some things; for people who are bored in line at the post office and college students who would rather look for profiles on their phones than pay attention to class.

Extracurricular activities allow you to meet different types of women with different majors and different interests, they allow you to meet women in a more low - key environment than class, and if you major in a predominantly male discipline (such as engineering), then extracurricular activities offer you perhaps your only chance to meet women during college.

She lived during a time when upper - class women were appreciated primarily as wives and mothers, when little more was expected of them than to marry and procreate; as the film plays out, though, her daughter leaves for college, and for a life of her own.