But for Walker, a recent college graduate looking for work in public relations in Orlando, Fla.
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As a 22-year-old college graduate with multiple pre-existing conditions, I could not be more grateful.
The average college graduate earns 80 percent more than those who stopped after high school.
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"It helps that she asks for them, " says Mr. Pratt, 22, a recent college graduate.
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Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old college graduate, supported himself by selling fruits and vegetables on the streets of Tunisia.
My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.
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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.
This rule applies in almost all cases, regardless of whether your child is living at home, enrolled in school, or a married college graduate.
Funny thing was, Minna knew, Lottie was a college graduate who spoke five languages, and in her spare time composed music and painted portraits.
There, at Lowell HS, Ms. Brash picked up where Ms. Artson left off and supported me as I became a first generation college graduate.
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.
If an employee or new college graduate has the right skills, language proficiency or needed knowledge, companies may sponsor or transfer an employee and cover a few expenses.
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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.
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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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.
Walters later sent a follow-up e-mail to Jonathan Wald, advising him not to bother following up with the college graduate, since she did not have an appropriate U.S. visa.
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.
"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.
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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Engineering graduates will still earn far higher salaries, on average, than the typical new college graduate, according to the latest salary survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
As I write this, my recent college graduate, similar to the kind Ms. Ephron described in her book, is fast asleep across the apartment in the bedroom where she grew up.
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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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.
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.
The other students later went abroad, to Israel or the U.S., leaving Yu with an odd distinction: he's probably the sole Hebrew-speaking college graduate in a country of 1.2 billion people.
" 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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And early Monday morning, LinkedIn and PwC announced the launch of Career Explorer, an interesting product targeted at the college graduate (or soon-to-be) who wants to plot out a path towards their job of choice.
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