Yet dropping out of college has become almost a rite of passage for ambitious technology entrepreneurs.
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The wedding has shifted from a rite of passage to a vehicle for self-expression.
Still, it was an annual rite of passage, sort of like old fashioned telephone books.
They have yet to make it to championship weekend, which once was a rite of passage here.
In many African countries, male circumcision is a rite of passage, sometimes with dire or lethal results.
You could call it a rite of passage, as necessary as embarrassing first dates and awkward job interviews.
Hiking and then skiing the bowl is practically a rite of passage for serious skiers headed to Aspen.
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Rohini was spared the full extent of my particular rite of passage and has always been known as Rita.
Therefore, consider losing money and making a bad investment a rite of passage.
Yet failing in a startup is practically a rite of passage, according to investors, as well as successful entrepreneurs.
Waiting tables can be seen as a rite of passage job, something en route to something else or a non-job.
They were indulging in the rite of passage of dancing around the statue in the middle of the square and getting squiffy.
Almost every vehicle has scratches or dents, an informal rite of passage.
For iReporter Kristen Booth, living in her 214-square foot East Village studio is a rite of passage for living in New York.
"Having a failed business in the US is like a rite of passage, " said Mark Simon, founder of dot.com networking company The Chemistry.
Study after study has shown that young people are delaying the traditional rite of passage of launching out on their own and starting families.
MindSumo and a few other ventures offer a new and potentially promising twist on college recruiting, an annual rite of passage for many businesses.
It's almost become a springtime rite of passage in recent years.
Getting a driver's license is a rite of passage for many teenagers, but the process was a bit more challenging for 19-year-old Mulligan of Acworth, Georgia.
Moreover, there was a collective bias towards in-person education, high-priced credentials, and going into massive debt as a rite of passage for almost every American twenty-something.
As a rite of passage, the record-breaking Red Bull event built pent-up attention at least twice as we waited for the balloon to launch Baumgartner into space.
This willingness to flout the rules for the sake of being hip sets today's generation apart from predecessors, who accepted the personality-stifling garb as an obligatory rite of passage.
My husband told me to back off, that our son was merely a kid with a crush who needed to experience this rite of passage on his own, without a hovering mother.
For many folks, the SAT is a rite of passage and is the common yardstick people use, for better or worse, in comparing their scores to the scores of their friends, parents and siblings.
The Vanuatu men of the Pentecost Islands climb a rickety 98-ft. tower, tie vines to their ankles and dive to the ground at speeds exceeding 45 mph as both a harvest ritual and rite of passage to manhood.
Monday's FDA decision means a new version of the pill once called Bendectin is set to return to U.S. pharmacies under a different name Diclegis as a safe and effective treatment for this pregnancy rite of passage.
Sadly, for four nights in August, drinking viche was a necessary evil, a rite of passage in the same way that cheap keg beer is a part of university and getting hit in the groin is a disagreeable consequence of riding a mechanical bull.
Camping out for tickets for the games against UNC and Maryland in Krzyzewskiville on the muddy ground outside of Cameron Indoor Stadium is a rite of passage, as important a requirement for earning a Duke diploma as your 34 class credits.
This rite was accompanied by a reading of Matthew 16, which is the passage where Jesus changes the name of his disciple Simon to Peter and hands him the keys to heaven.
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