Sentences with phrase «years you called college»

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During her freshman year of college, after being inspired by artisans she encountered on a trip to Italy, she started a jewelry business called Tramonti, the Italian word for sunset.

But unlike other private liberal arts colleges with large endowments, C of O, as it's often called, has accumulated its endowment all while offering four - year degrees to students tuition free.

A recruiter called his house in the Florida panhandle at 10:30 a.m. on a weekday in the midst of a senior year in high school in which he would fail a class and realize he didn't have the transcript needed to get into a four - year college.

If they indicate that their child is heading off to their first year of college, or they are taking a long awaited vacation, jot these things down on a calendar so you can ask how things went when you do a follow - up call.

Ahmed Khattak, founder of GSM Nation When Khattak arrived in the U.S. as a college student, he was frustrated that he couldn't call home without signing a two - year mobile - phone contract.

About a year after I started doing this stuff, I broke some big record, a 72 - ounce steak in seven minutes, and after I posted that video I got asked by an eating organization to come down to San Diego in 2008 for something called the Collegiate Nationals, a contest between all the college eaters and university eaters of North America.

The zygote to Facebook's fully developed foetus was a service called FaceMash, a «hot or not» ripoff for Harvard students created by Zuckerberg during his second year of college.

As Fonstad explained to me in a call this morning, she and Gouz have been friends for over twenty years, and met after college while working in consulting at Bain.

Two years ago, I visited a school in Brooklyn called P - TECH, the Pathways in Technology early college high school, which seemed very much like the future of education to me.

So - called 529 college - savings plans — those state - sponsored accounts for college savers in which earnings are tax - free as long as they are used to pay for qualified higher - education expenses — typically let account holders select once a year from a number of investment options.

For several years I taught Great Books classes to college undergraduates, and the European focus of the four - semester sequence (the first part was called «Roots of Western Thought») illuminated issues of which Augustine made the first consummate exploration: personal identity, individuality, the inviolable and incommensurate self.

As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vatican.

I will start by saying that I have been an umpire for over 20 years, umpired 100s of games from Little League to Junior College and I would guess that I have made an obstruction call in less than 1 % of those games.

The second phase, from 11 until the time I went to college, I'll call the the self perceived intellectual years.

In the Christian Evidence Society's «Drawbridge Lecture» in November, hosted at King's College, London, Professor Alister McGrath delivered a forthright argument entitled The Rationality of Faith,» in the face of recent years» attacks by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, amongst others, the advocates of the so - called «New Atheism.»

However, it wasn't until my freshman year in college that I started getting blowback from jewish kids calling my own judaism into doubt because I didn't practice like they did.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

Two years after the establishment of the Divinity School he was called from his position in history and political economy at Colby College to teach New Testament history and, after 1906, theology.

When adjusted for different proportions of persons in each of these categories, the following profile of the CBN partners who have called a CBN counseling center emerges: 80 per cent are women; 91 percent are «700 Club» members; 94 percent have been a «700 Club» member for one year or more; 70 percent are over the age of 35; 84 percent have no college education; and 90 per cent are affiliated with a church.

«Many of them felt a call early in life, maybe in their teenage years or college, and set that aside to be the bread winner for the family or do what the family expected them to do,» said the Rev. Chip Aldridge, admissions director at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington.

And, after a 20 - year absence from the curriculum, the college has again instituted a required religion and philosophy course, called «Values and the Responsible Life.»

Throughout our college years, my friend's mom — we'll call her College Mom — was a peripheral presence in mcollege years, my friend's mom — we'll call her College Mom — was a peripheral presence in mCollege Mom — was a peripheral presence in my life.

After high school Roy attended New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (NMA&M) for two years.31 In October 1942 he enlisted in the United States Army and was called to active duty in 1943.

My senior year of college I took a class called «Plants, People, and You» within the Agriculture department.

I got a cookbook in college (30 years ago) called the «On Your Own Cookbook» - very well written - starting with the basics.

In late high school, college, and the early «adult» (muahahah) years, Fifi and I frequented a very fancy restaurant called Hot & Crusty.

Super Bowl 52 marked the final «we've arrived» for run / pass options, the packaged play - calls that have been common in college and high school for years.

Mayock told reporters on a conference call Friday that it wouldn't surprise him if some team jumped into the top 10 to take arguably the most exciting player in college football the past few years.

We're not talking about examples of helicopter parenting run amok such as parents of college - age kids calling professors to argue about grades; but not supervising 9 - year - olds at all to the point that parents don't know who their friends are or what they are doing is not only opening a child up to potential risks and bad choices, but making them stressed as well.

So a few years down the road when they are in college, suddenly meeting work that is way beyond them, they can call upon that memory of having tried something that felt like an impossible challenge and having overcome it, and it will convince them that they can do it again.

The U.S. Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding notes that several health organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Nurse - Midwives, American Dietetic Association and American Public Health Association all recommend that most infants be breastfed for a minimum of one year, with the first six months exclusively breast milk.

When had Luna, I was an unwed twenty - something year old college student just trying to figure this thing called life out.

At the KIPP charter schools, established 18 years ago to improve the odds for low - income and underprivileged kids, fifth graders are drilled to sit up, listen, ask questions, nod, and track the speaker — a classroom acronym teachers call SLANT — to instill unfamiliar rules for appropriate behavior in school, college, and professional life.

For the past two decades, she has hosted an annual broadcast for healthcare and public health professionals called Breastfeeding Grand Rounds, focusing each year on a different breastfeeding issue with both clinical and public health significance Dr. Applegate holds a BA in biochemistry from Smith College, an MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

VSO and the Royal College of Physicians are calling for an exemption for health workers coming to Britain as part of the MTI to ensure they can take advantage of the full two years of training.

The college was «development 10 years ago by a Republican governor and based on Republican principles,» Cox said on the call.

A campaign backed by CUNY's faculty union, the Working Families Party, New York Public Interest Research Group and others is calling on the state to provide $ 2 billion for CUNY, with $ 784 million per year going to replace tuition not currently covered by federal aid at the system's two - and four - year colleges.

Ackerman, on the other hand, called the new NY - 6 «fantastic,» noting it included the neighborhoods where he «grew up, went to public school and college, and started my family and my business,» adding: «It contains my political base and longtime roots, and I have had the privilege of representing approximately 90 percent of it during my 34 years in the state Senate and U.S. Congress.»

UPDATE: Ackerman released his own statement, calling the proposed 6th district a «fantastic district in Queens where I grew up, went to public school and college, and started my family and my business,» and said he looks forward to representing those constituents for «many more years to come.»

The pollsters at Marist College say that the percentage of people who call themselves baseball fans — 44 %, for those scoring at home — is the lowest in 10 years.

The 2014 - 15 college budget presented to the county legislature last week called for a $ 100 yearly increase in tuition while continuing its freeze on the county's contribution for the sixth straight year.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz, in partnership with Queens College and Queens Library, has launched an open call for applications for the next Queens Poet Laureate, a prestigious three - year position charged with promoting a love of poetry and literacy throughout the borough.

In September, the teachers union gave $ 25,000 to a NYSUT affiliate called the Faculty Federation of Erie Community College, a committee that for years had been largely dormant, according to campaign finance records.

ALBANY — State education commissioner John King said Tuesday that a call from teachers» unions for a three - year moratorium on using state exam results for «high - stakes» decisions is a «distraction» from the goal of improving New York graduates» outcomes in college and careers.

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.

A for - profit college company called Laureate International Universities signed Bill Clinton to a lucrative deal in 2009 as a consultant and «honorary chancellor,» paying him $ 17.6 million over five years until the contract ended in 2015 as Hillary Clinton launched her campaign for president.

The group on Monday rallied outside the governor's Midtown office, calling on Cuomo to restore funding for CUNY's four - year colleges that was lost since the 2008 recession.

The mayor answered that call Wednesday with a wide - ranging speech delivered at Bronx Latin School, pledging $ 186 million a year beginning in 2021 on new Advanced Placement courses, computer science courses in all city schools, Algebra and reading help and more college guidance.

That's consistent with what Gillibrand has been saying for years about sexual harassment in the military and on college campuses, and she maintained that consistency earlier this month when she called on a friend, Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, to resign in light of the accusations of sexual misbehavior that he faces.

City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D - Sunnyside) called for the city Department of Transportation to do a traffic safety study of Thomson Avenue last week in light of a car crash that killed a 16 - year - old boy and injured four LaGuardia Community College students.