Funny thing was, Minna knew, Lottie was a college graduate who spoke five languages, and in her spare time composed music and painted portraits.
And it's true for our workers as well, when a college graduate earns over 60 percent more in a lifetime than a high school graduate.
On the contrary, such duties may in the long run be as beneficial to the career of a college graduate as anything learned in a classroom.
In terms of education, 25 percent of households had a college graduate as the primary PC user, with both college and high school graduates accounting for 24 percent each.
Kayongo transitioned from the tough life of a refugee to become a college graduate, a U.S. citizen and a field coordinator for CARE International, a private humanitarian aid organization.
Joanne Rife, a college graduate in California who was interested in industrial psychology, had a job interview in which she was pitted against a man with an inferior college record.
You can be a college graduate with a white collar job, or a skilled factory worker with no formal education, or a technical type with an education somewhere in the middle.
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Mohammed's mother, Fatimah Memfis, who is a college graduate, found out about KIPP STRIVE Academy from a grocery store flier, but it turned out to be the best opportunity so far.
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And, she adds, it's especially acceptable if you're in your 20s and a recent college graduate with a limited income.
If you're a new college graduate or a recently fired employee heading into the job market, there are a lot of people out there looking for work, so how to avoid the common interview blunders so you get a leg up on the competition.
Prestige can simply and effectively signal to many different people that a graduate of Harvard College is much better educated or will add more value to a job than a graduate of Podunk College or even State University.
My name is Kirsten Perry (phonetic), and I'm a recent college graduate. (Applause.) My mom is a teacher and my dad is a disabled carpenter, so needless to say, I have accrued a significant amount of student loan debt.
Even with a carefully managed credit score and a hefty down payment, lenders were reluctant to give out a loan to a very recent college graduate in a mostly cash business.
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But for Walker, a recent college graduate looking for work in public relations in Orlando, Fla.
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"It helps that she asks for them, " says Mr. Pratt, 22, a recent college graduate.
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This rule applies in almost all cases, regardless of whether your child is living at home, enrolled in school, or a married college graduate.
Albert explains that a person with three kids, a mortgage and a lot of bills has different (and greater) risks to consider than a recent college graduate.
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"What you get is a recent college graduate loading Linux on some old system that's kicking around, and it's free, " said Dan Kuznetsky, program director for IDC's operating environments service.
As a result, a tenured teacher with a master's degree whose students aren't learning much will always earn more than a recent college graduate whose students are sweeping the academic decathlon.
Equally important, "Admission" asserts that landing a spot in a prestigious college (Portia is a Dartmouth graduate) does not guarantee a happy post-college life.
In 1976, Miyamoto, then age twenty-four, was a recent art-college graduate, with a degree in industrial design and an enduring fascination with the Japanese comic strips called manga.
Maturin is an intellectual, a linguist, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, which, late in his life, gave Mr O'Brian an honorary degree.
There, at Lowell HS, Ms. Brash picked up where Ms. Artson left off and supported me as I became a first generation college graduate.
Women have not only caught up with men in college attendance but younger women are now more likely than younger men to have a college or a graduate degree.
" His prey is Anastasia Steele, a newly minted college graduate who describes herself as mousy, wide-eyed and uncoordinated and whose idea of cussing is "Holy hell, " "Holy Moses, " "Holy cow" and "Holy crap.
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She is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College, and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Author Akiba Smith-Francis is a career coach and writer and a graduate of Harvard College, the John F.
If you compare a private college with a public one based on tuition and post-graduate salaries, one study suggests that private college tuition pays itself back in a bit over six years.
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This could be a first full-time job after college or graduate studies or a better job then the one you currently have.
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