But he didn't really give the case much thought until 13 years later, when as a sophomore at Eastern Michigan University he attended a lecture by Mark Lane.

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You could do a Roth conversion early (when your oldest is a sophomore in high school), and get a modest college aid benefit from the move.

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Graham discussed Sam Altman, founder of Loopt, who applied for YC when he was a sophomore in college.

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But something happened to that sense of wide-open opportunity on Sept. 11, 2001, when Docherty was a sophomore in college.

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When he was a college sophomore, his father died of pneumonia.

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Take heart in the idea that no matter how hard things get, no matter what failures you endure, you will always have the memories of the night when you and a drunk sophomore did it on top of two passed-out lacrosse players.

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For example, Rebecca Onie was a college sophomore when she realized the connection between poverty and poor health: low-income patients lack basic resources such as food and housing, and the lack of such resources often leads to worse health outcomes.

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Dyslexic like his dad, Craig struggled with school but showed early self-confidence. (He piloted the family yacht through the San Juan Islands when he was only 14.) In August 1969, when Craig was 19 and a sophomore at Stanford University, his father died of heart failure.

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This is a reality that a sophomore at Wesleyan University, Jordan Goldman, recognized in 2003, when he began a project to collect perspectives, in essay form, from as many different students as he could on his own campus and several others.

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