Sentences with phrase «years of college because»

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«Nobody can really be a college marketing expert because the industry changes dramatically every year,» says Leah Bell, president and co-founder of UQ Marketing, a Columbus, Ohio - based company that specializes in marketing to college students.

Because, like most of you, I began college in my teens, but sophomore year, I was offered my dream job at Universal Studios, so I dropped out.

BridgeEDU came about because Moore had a passion for students who couldn't make it through their freshman year of college.

Starting with my first job at a investment bank out of college in NYC, I saved over 50 % of my after tax income every year because I knew I wouldn't be able to last a lifetime working 70 + hours a week.

One year I went over the limit by just a few dollars because the college paid a small stipend when I developed an online course; the penalty for that was loss of an entire month's SS benefit, right at Christmastime when I really needed the money.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

I'm a big fan of Houghton College, mainly because some of the nicest people I've met through the years claim it as either their employer or alma mater.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education.

One big thing I prayed for recently is that a friend of mine would be able to find a job, because they hadnt worked in several years and hadnt graduated from college, and they found a job within about a week.

I tried to stay out of the discussion as much as possible, because I didn't want to guide the discussion into what my Bible College, Seminary, and years of pastoral experience had taught me.

I remember in college, many moons ago, thinking that since I was so very opinionated about religion, I really should make sure I was familiar with the Bible... So I read it... cover to cover... I can tell you, I honestly didn't enjoy it... it's NOT a great read... bits are interesting, and of course very familiar... I took me almost the whole year, but I got through it... So imagine my surprise some time later when I found myself at an after conference gathering, that just so happened to have an inexplicably number of overtly religious attendants (inexplicable because it was a hi - tech network security conference) and after listening quietly for a while, jumped in with the statement «well, you've all read the bible cover to cover, as have I»....

My sophomore year of college, during a short - lived Reformed phase, I said it was because of the irresistible grace of God.

I can not fathom the pain and frustration the Brown family experiences because a son and heir will no longer sit at the dinner table, talk about his first year of college, or have kids.

«Because the NIV was introduced about 30 years ago, the translation needed to be refreshed to reflect advances in biblical scholarship and changes in English usage,» said committee member Karen H. Jobes, associate professor of New Testament at Westmont College near Santa Barbara, California.

She and her husband of nearly fifty years had retired to the Virginia Coast, she said, because there were so many colleges in the area.

I am reminded of the time when, as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, I got an angry e-mail from a woman who assumed that because I had referred to «holiday season workers» in an article I wrote about college students taking on extra retail jobs between Thanksgiving and New Year's that I had a clear, «anti-Christian» bias.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

I'll be following along on this series too, because even though I have been out of college a very long time I am trying to cook more on a budget these days with looming college expenses... I'm a year away from sending my oldest son!

Finals week during my senior year of college, I learned to make pâte à choux for cream puffs and mastered pain au chocolat because I was so anxious.

Because I lived in my sorority house during my junior and senior years of college, I had to fend for myself, thus the teasing about my cooking took place.

«I find myself deferring a lot to one of our assistant coaches, Dwane Casey, because he was a college coach for years.»

Indeed, Conine didn't have a single at bat in three years of college ball, but his ascent is all the more remarkable because he grew up in Rialto, Calif., with a passion for racquetball, not baseball.

But the official rulebook exception doesn't cover Patterson because he's got two years left of college eligibility, while Ole Miss» postseason ban only covers one of those.

«Often, when you're rooting for a Purdue [his school] or a Missouri [mine], it's because it connects you with some community or cultural experience - four years of college, tailgating with friends, something you can continue to do each year.

That by definition should lead to well over 50 % of NFL rosters being made up of guys who left college before their senior year, because everyone playing in the NFL is in fact NFL talent.

This year, I brought my sister so that she too could learn from all of the expert panels that have topics ranging from «Life of a College Student - Athlete» to «Sports Science and Player Tracking Data» and even «Silver asks Silver» (one of my favorites because I got to hear Adam Silver's vision first - hand).

It's easy to forget Chalmers was the hero on a college championship team, because he's gone from there to second - rounder to pincushion for so much of Miami's growing - pain frustration the last few years.

Part of that is because Malik is still only 17 years old, but part of it may also be his upcoming college choice is a decision that will weigh more on the emotions of the fans of those big programs than it will on his own.

Leinart plans to return to USC next fall for his final year of eligibility but might be lured to the NFL; White, who was granted a rare sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA because of time lost to his many injuries, will welcome an NFL opportunity, but not at the expense of college football.

The ACC rose to (or near) the top of college football last year, in part because the conference's middle class was awesome.

Though they never got the respect due from the College Football Playoff committee, which continuously put them low on its rankings because of their weak schedule, the Badgers had one of their most memorable seasons in years, finishing the regular season undefeated for the first time in school history and coming a few plays away from a Big Ten title.

And not just because of the fact that in last year's College Football Playoff, the SEC team, Alabama, had fewer glaring injury issues than any of the other three.

While the vast majority of recreational college basketball bettors are waiting for Selection Sunday, sharp bettors already have been firing away because they know some of the best wagering opportunities of the year happen during the conference basketball tournaments in the two weeks prior to the Big Dance.

Between 16 and 18, things are getting serious, because now they are preparing to go after college or have a gap year or something which they are going to be independent, so now the stakes are higher and you really want them to be accountable, to a cash flow statement budget, savings, credit, they really need to learn about FICO scores, all of these things they are going to need when they are off to college.

It's kind of hilarious, because four years ago I vowed he wouldn't watch television until, like, he graduated college.

Before i started going to the college, i thought this kind of behavior from men may be common once you have a baby because i put on weight but i reduced over 30 pounds within a year and half after my son was born.

Although you may remember starting your own college search in the fall of your senior year, many teens these days need to get started earlier because of the extensive research involved and the deadlines for early admissions programs to competitive programs.

There were times I would stop something from going beyond «second base» because I didn't feel I truly «loved» the girl I was with; whereas by my sophomore year of college I saw that as unnecessarily restrictive (and regretted those missed opportunities in retrospect, LOL).

WASHINGTON — Caleb Torres lost seven pounds his freshman year of college — and not because he didn't like the food in the dining hall.

Last school year, Neuqua Valley moved girls soccer games to North Central College in Naperville because of the condition of the field at Neuqua, Barrows said.

Rodriguez, a 32 - year old Marine veteran, quit his job as coordinator of Veterans and Military Affairs at Medaille College to launch what some consider a quixotic run for mayor in November because Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in the city by more than seven to one.

This is because 96 percent of the state's teachers were rated effective last year but only 38 percent of high school graduates were deemed college - ready.

A cause of death hasn't been determined for a 22 - year - old college student who was detained for nearly a year and a half in North Korea before being sent home in a coma, an Ohio coroner's office said, in part because the family has refused an autopsy.

After a year at Borough of Manhattan Community College, Burnett quit because he wasn't learning anything.

Rodriguez, a 32 - year old Marine veteran quit his job as coordinator of Veterans and Military Affairs at Medaille College to launch what some consider a Quixotic run for mayor in November because Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in the city by a more than seven to one.

Drumm noted that the state's budget increased this year, and proclaimed himself «baffled» as to why the administration doesn't feel compelled to support community colleges at a time when applications are up because the cost of four - year schools is out of reach for many students.

A 27 year old college freshmen who runs for office as a class project and is forced onto the conservative column because the republican party won't let him, they'd rather kruger ran unapposed, and gets 27 % of the vote says that 27 % of the voters are telling kruger they are unhappy with him.

A real - time electronic poll of members attending the Conference found that: A third said their school or college was not a safe space for LGBTI teachers; More than four in ten (43 %) say they have experienced some form of discrimination, bullying or harassment because of their LGBTI identity during the last year; Only 4 % said their school has a programme of activities to mark LGBT History Month; 85 % do not think schools and colleges are being held to account sufficiently in relation to LGBTI equality.

He said he is unlike his competitors because of his his experience as a teacher in Inwood for 29 years and as an adjunct at community colleges in the Bronx to his candidacy, as well as involvement with the UFT and as chair of the Manhattan Green Party Local.

Universities, colleges, and their students in Canada were not anticipating much in the way of increased funding for postsecondary education initiatives because much of the talk leading up to this year's federal budget focused on health care..