| 单词 | graduate |
| 例句 | I ask her where she’s from and she answers with practice a certain fancy neighborhood in Seoul, and then offers other facts I might want to hear: she’s twenty-two, a college graduate, a good cook. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I did end up graduating from Hampden, with a degree in English literature. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Mother was a Phi Beta Kappa and a psychology graduate of the University of California. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I will graduate from high school, go to college, get married, have kids. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, I wanted to get one last look at Ada Taylor before she graduated and never came back to Lily again. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z As a Caltech graduate student, Carl Anderson spent several days in a packed lecture hall straining unsuccessfully to make sense of Oppenheimer’s class on quantum mechanics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, Ever since Ms. Gruwell announced that the Freedom Writers with the top thirty-five grade point averages would win computers when we graduated, I started getting As and Bs on my report card. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z By the time the students graduated—those of them who persevered—their range of knowledge would be wider than that of any other doctor in history. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This connection between puzzles and mathematics persists through to graduate and research-level mathematics, and the same may be said of humor. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I have proven to everyone that I would graduate on time with everyone else in my class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The rest, even if they did graduate from high school, were expected to take their place in the workforce immediately. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z After graduating from Las Vegas, I flew the F-86 for four years, accumulating over a thousand flying hours in it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Working on a navy contract quietly and virtually single-handedly at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Lawrence’s former graduate student Philip Abelson had perfected a way of enriching uranium by thermal diffusion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One by one, the Ford English School graduates rise from the cauldron. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Christopher, a graduate ,of Harvard Divinity School, was a poet, a philosopher, and a Unitarian minister, although he earned his keep as a bureaucrat in the California penal system. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Had I not hated the tribal reserves I would have gone with friends from the graduating class to boarding school in Giyani, the tribal reserve for the Tsongas. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined myself in Cambridge, a graduate student wearing a long black robe that swished as I strode through ancient corridors. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z After graduating from Princeton, Bernard worked in banking before pursuing his law degree. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z My life was unlike that of any other graduate student I knew. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A few years after I graduated, a second high school in the district closed, and its student population was subsumed into Wilson. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The first of the black doctors to move there, in the forties when she graduated, had a son five years her junior. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He says we will graduate knowing how to read and write because we’ll spend a million hours learning how to read and write. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z When her fiance learned of yet another university closure, he had told her he could no longer wait until she graduated, since nobody knew when the university would reopen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He found them during his first six months at the White House, before June graduated and Nora transferred, when he was alone, with nothing better to do than these little investigative projects around the grounds. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He studied construction and graduated in November 2008 with his high school diploma. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Nick had heard his older brother, James, groan and grumble about this rule for years, right up until he graduated from high school two years ago. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It finally fell to two men from Cambridge University, a geophysicist named Drummond Matthews and a graduate student of his named Fred Vine, to draw all the strands together. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They would live in Louisiana for the next two years; when my dad graduated from college, they returned to Iran, where they remained until their escape in 1982. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z By the time they got around to implementing that, I would probably be in graduate school—or a retirement home. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Whenever they said they planned to go North for an education after they graduated, Rosa would scold them. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Then he asked me, “You ever thought of going to law school when you graduate?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Before Penny, she wanted to graduate high school with top honors and go to college to pursue politics and architecture and music history. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Another graduate student was sitting across the room at his desk. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Glancing at her—myopic, spinsterish, effaced—I wondered how she knew she had graduated at all, and, unlike her clients, was whole and well. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Not until my last months as a graduate student, nearly thirty years old, was it possible for me to think much about the reasons for my academic success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We take a photo of me every year, graduating from one duck to the next, beginning with when Dad balanced me on Quack, the littlest of the eight ducklings. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z They are mostly Ivy League graduates whose regular alumni contributions he hopes to channel into the Christian Union. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She had as little respect for her husband’s work as Macon had for college graduates. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing black people graduate from Harvard and Yale and become CEOs or corporate lawyers—not to mention president of the United States—causes us all to marvel at what a long way we have come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Dad told them that he graduated from Ohio State. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm the youngest, and my parents are moving to Harlem after I graduate. Mom got an offer to teach at some exclusive private school in Manhattan." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The following year, with the aid of a cane, he returned to college and graduated, and without telling his parents he applied to continue his engineering studies abroad. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I can’t tell you how bad it was last year since my brother was on the field graduating instead of up in the bleachers making my grandfather stop. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z And like most successful college graduates, I was ready for real life to start. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There are three rights and a wrong: Right: Moose graduated from college. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I only have one year left before I graduate and I don’t have a place to live. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It would be the day of my graduation or, at least, the day on which I was supposed to graduate. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I asked what he’d done after graduating from college and there was a strained silence. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Minority student—that was the label I bore in college at Stanford, then in graduate school at Columbia and Berkeley: a nonwhite reader of Spenser and Milton and Austen. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And some relative’s son is graduating from college this year. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Jim Brady, one of his graduate students, was tinkering at his lab table on the second floor of LeConte when Ernest bounded in, dragged Brady to the blackboard, and sketched out the equations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There were my fellow “greats,” the graduating class. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Toby’s dad had been a graduate student at the university. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t because we graduated at the same time. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The other person was Miss Armstrong, who was the only other college graduate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally they allow him to make a phone call, and his graduate supervisor from the university has to come and bail him out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But it all changed when I graduated from sixth grade and enrolled in a junior high that accommodated several different elementary schools. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He was described to me as an eminent, learned Muslim, a University of Cairo graduate, a University of London Ph.D., a lecturer on Islam, a United Nations advisor and the author of many books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Anatole earned a stipend from student teaching, an amount the other graduate students called a “pittance,” though it was much more than he and I had ever earned together in any year. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We boasted about our conquests, our athletic prowess, and how much money we were going to make once we had graduated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right there, the supermarket. Only till I graduate and then I don’t know. I have to find a real job; besides, I have no choice. I got a kid coming.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Lori would leave by herself for New York in June, after she graduated. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I sat down at the translation of Caesar I was doing for him, since he had to pass Latin at last this year or fail to graduate. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “A party could be fun. You are about to graduate. It might be a good opportunity to say good-bye to all your friends.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “But what happens when Prism isn't there anymore? What happens if you graduate? Or if you don't—” She stops herself. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But if Sharaud, who graduated in June, could turn his life around, there is hope for these new students yet. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z After graduate work at Penn State and the University of Chicago, he was hired as a Harvard professor at age twenty-five. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Uncle Son and Father graduated in the same navy class. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z After transferring to the University of Maryland, she earned her bachelor’s degree and entered a master’s program in psychology, becoming the first of Henrietta’s descendants to attend graduate school. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The graduates seem to have been looking elsewhere when they pinned the rose, zinnia, or chrysanthemum on their precise black dresses. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At school, meanwhile, I knew graduate students who hadn’t received a single job offer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When Truman graduates stopped by the school to visit, it was always a good bet that they were looking for Volpe. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z A year after graduating, he realized they had not disappeared— they’d simply returned to Baltimore, waiting for him to come back. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z For school concerts he had to play Schubert, Beethoven, and Mozart, but now that he had graduated, he was free to play whatever he liked, which was swing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When school was out in Oxford, Mom came down to live with me and Grampa, and Dad announced that he was almost done with graduate school. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z In the four years since leaving graduate school, Katherine had not once regretted her decision to exchange the high-profile academic opportunity for domestic life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Around the time I graduated, there was a sporadic renewal of communications. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I’m gonna be near ninety by the time this here baby graduates high school. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Janae, are you serious? Come on! What about your grades, focusing on getting a job right after you graduate? And us? Mama and Papi?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z After I graduate, I’ll get a job and my own apartment here too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Grandpa had sense enough to know the reason Hosie hadn’t graduated was that he worked a lot at the cotton mill and couldn’t get to school regular. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z This past year, only eleven out of the forty kids in the eighth-grade class at Donoghue had high enough scores to graduate. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In early June, a rumor swept through the school that a recent graduate had been killed in the fighting around Jerusalem. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I grunted, sitting back on my heels, and stood still while the rest of my classmates graduated. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Shouldn’t you go to high school before graduating from high school?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Aunty Onenu liked to say, “Most of my staff are foreign graduates while that woman at Glass hires riffraff who cannot punctuate sentences!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Such experiments were first performed in the early 1950’s by Stanley Miller, then a graduate student of the chemist Harold Urey. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Haas, an archaeologist at the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, had plucked the fabric from the earth minutes before, two graduate students immortalizing the operation with digital cameras. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Frank, a graduate from a black college and a commercial artiste-volunteered to help me with arithmetic, in which I had received my lowest mark. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The Commandant graduates us, and the cheer that erupts out of the new Masks, raw and relieved, is what wrenches me from my thoughts. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Boobie was on a schedule that would give him the required course credits to graduate from Permian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He graduated third in his class at Lowell and got a full scholarship to Stanford. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer, about to graduate from Duke, found an equivalent to Upper Silesia not far from campus. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z When he graduated, her brother handed over the key, dangling on an España key chain, to the old teacher’s storage room, through which you could access the roof hatch. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z No one else in the ’hood has graduated from college, why should they be the first to try? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Now, I'm almost ready to graduate from Miss Preston's, but I have no idea if there even is a Rose Hill to return to anymore. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “You only graduate from high school once,” Mom said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “If you’re unhappy, why, feel free to go on any other project. Because I can get any number of graduate students to do what you are doing.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The graduates then headed off to stateside service at bases like Maryland’s Naval Air Station Patuxent River, ground zero for the navy’s flight test activity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “All graduating students have a counselor assigned to them?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “All of our saber girls are graduating next year, so I need a new saber squad ready for next season. You’d be in our starting lineup.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Hardly. They’ve graduated you early. Follow me—there’s something I want you to see.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The graduate school offered a free course on charcoal sketching. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We started a program for college graduates to work at EJI as Justice Fellows. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I would tell fellow graduate students about my outrageous good fortune. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He went to a Southern prep school that specialized in building all-round gentlemen, and by the time you graduated it was an unwritten rule that you had to have known a woman. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z When Sizwe and I graduated from high school, we couldn’t get jobs. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z After graduating from Oklahoma State University as the Flying Aggies' top female pilot, Wally had gotten a job teaching military men how to fly. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The summer I graduated from high school, my sister Princesse planned to marry. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When I graduated four years later and did not enter Harvard or any other medical school but became a carpenter and climbing bum instead, the unbridgeable gulf between us widened. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The students were nominated by their principals or guidance counselors and would stay with us until they graduated. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Each time one graduates, others apply for the job. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some kids don’t like to play football and the Spanish-Mexi- cans are one of them,” said Vern Foreman, an electrical contractor and former city councilman who had graduated from Odessa High in 1951. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The twins just graduated from middle school, and ever since they turned thirteen, it’s been all about teen everything—clothes, music, and teenage boys. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z After graduating with a degree in mathematics, Big Dub moved North, where he spent the next few years teaching at small colored schools in Virginia and Maryland. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z After graduating from Big Creek, the story I got was he had spent his entire time in Korea on top of the same mountain, waiting for the Chinese to come up and kill him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was considered “the most expensive, most beautiful, and largest high school in the nation” and an excellent educational facility and academically graduated a high percentage of students who went on to top universities. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Several months before Orson graduated from high school, his father died. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Each spring, corporate recruiters descended on the Princeton campus, aiming themselves at the graduating seniors. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Seaborg had accepted an appointment at Berkeley as a full professor, with the authority to hire four assistant and associate professors and twelve salaried graduate fellows. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The man died without a penny, yet his children grew up to graduate from college, to become doctors, professors, teachers, and professionals all. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Physical inactivity is more than twice as common among high school dropouts as among college graduates. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Farmer had graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency in internal medicine there. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Neither Robert Newton nor his son Isaac ever learned to read or write, but Hannah’s brother William was a Cambridge graduate, a clergyman who enjoyed the living at the nearby village of Burton Coggles. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The last time he was here was two years ago, when Georgie graduated from high school. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I remember my minority student years in graduate school and need to remember them also as years of white student protests. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn't matter that my sister had graduated and I wouldn't be Little Sami. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z When I was about ready to graduate, a list of Appalachian communities asking for nurse-midwives was posted on the student bulletin board. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your dad didn’t graduate from high school. And I quit high school to marry him.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z This analysis, however, only partially suggests what happened to me in my last year as a graduate student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In a New York Times poll, 43 percent of them called it essential to success, while 42 percent of college graduates and 32 percent of high school dropouts did. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We were no different from my parents, both of whom had moved away and moved back to Lily within five years of graduating high school. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The others were graduate students from Peru and the United States. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Many college graduates were forced to work as cabbies or waitresses after graduation, but they retained the confidence of a public identity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She got off work as a barista at three and had school—now graduate school—at four fifteen. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z There are maybe thirty people in each graduating class at Holy Cross. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “The last of the White House Trio finally graduates,” she says, grinning. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But so is graduating from high school and leaving it behind. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Tough enough to see that you don’t graduate,” he said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Francie, about a year ago he gave me that card all written out and two dollars. He said, “When Francie graduates, send her some flowers for me—in case I forget.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even if I have to start from the beginning in America, at least I know when I will graduate,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When he graduated from law school in 1978, he had hoped to get a job in neighboring Midland instead of Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Volpe was up onstage that night, among several teachers who took turns calling out the names of graduates. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Rutherford was twenty-four when he first came to Cambridge University’s storied Cavendish Laboratory on a graduate scholarship. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Since many of them will be the first in their family to graduate from high school, their parents aren’t pushing them to go to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z My grandfather lacked the necessary classics degree; he hadn’t even graduated from university. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Coach Turner and Big Dub had agreed to let this years graduates participate, but no one older. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z From his honeymoon cabin on Long Island Sound, he wired his graduate student Jim Brady to help Livingston bombard a lithium crystal in the eleven-inch accelerator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He’s two years ahead of me at school, in the same class as my brother, and soon to graduate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I felt that it was time to go, to declare myself a graduate of The Mecca, if not the university. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Then, when I graduate, I can actually start fresh, rather than starting with a hundred-thousand-dollar stone around my neck. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He graduated from Annapolis and served in the Korean War. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Its graduates are monied, but believe in the concept of noblesse oblige. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z They were to “run” the social scene once the senior yearbook girls graduated, though seniors cared less about the social hierarchy the closer they got to graduation. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Man, I’m fixing to graduate, fixing to go to high school. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Years ago, the schools on the other side of Levittown, the upper end, had substantial numbers of Jewish students, but I was one of no more than ten Jewish students in my graduating class. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I envied those minority students who graduated to work among lower-class Hispanics at barrio chnics or legal aid centers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It included a list of the names of sixty Soviet secret agents, recently graduated from spy training, who would soon be posted to assignments overseas. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By the time I graduated from elementary school, I knew everyone. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z “You’ve got college graduates working here who are doing what I’m doing.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Upon completing his graduate work at the University of Chicago, Venkatesh was awarded a three-year stay at Harvard’s Society of Fellows. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It’s the first apartment he has to himself, after an evolving chain of roommates all through college and graduate school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She pointed at the photograph of the thirty- seven graduates. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So many foreign students come to do their graduate work here, and so few American students major in mathematics, that in many departments American graduate students are a minority. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After he went to Brown University for graduate school, Bill traveled around Europe for a while, and when he came home, he joined Teach for America. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Delacruz, in the meantime, graduated to his own cell, but it was way upstairs on U-and-Z, not on V. So we’d acknowledge each other in the mess hall or wherever else our paths would cross. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were both in graduate school, he, eleven years older. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He became so proficient in his studies that, even before he graduated, he was hired to teach classes in Greek, Latin, algebra, and penmanship. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As I graduated from high school and worked my way through college toward a biology degree, HeLa cells were omnipresent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It happened quickly, this vocational sorting—the bankers, lawyers, doctors, and executives of tomorrow hastily migrating toward their next launchpad, whether it was graduate school or a cushy Fortune 500 training-program job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “In those days,” he explained sheepishly to a former graduate student who reproached him for talking over his students’ heads, “I was just trying to educate myself.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We’d always talk about graduating and saving up to buy a house. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z And even though I don’t live with him, he still is verbally abusive, constantly telling me I won’t graduate and that I don’t deserve to be a Freedom Writer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z As important as anything else, he could be sure that none of them would be graduating before the Olympic summer of 1936. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I graduated from high school in early June. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As soon as he graduated from high school in 1968, Scruggs signed up for the army and was sent to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He had graduated from the Ilium School of Optometry— third in his class of forty-seven. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One of his graduate students must certainly know what his model looked like, and if there were obvious biological implications the rumor would have quickly reached us. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Scruggs went on to graduate school and put together a questionnaire for Vietnam veterans about their war experiences and their return home. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Youth League members had now graduated to the senior organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I want her to move back with me until she graduates. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z He graduated from medical school, got married and had two children, settled comfortably into a lucrative Dallas practice. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In 1975, he enrolled in graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “The widow Clowers up in Six took them in until Calvin graduates and goes into the Army.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We soon graduated to pieces of paper that were rolled up and chewed until they were sticky with spit, then shot out of a pen like cannonballs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Newly focused, sober, and intensely committed to succeed, he graduates with honors and returns to his community intent on changing things. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Looking at the proportion of women in graduate school at a large university, some women filed a lawsuit claiming that they were being discriminated against by the graduate school. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon graduating with his degree in philosophy, Cabot Searcy was told by his father that he couldn’t have wasted more money or time if he’d tried. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Ifemelu did not quite grasp what it all meant, but it sounded correct because it came from him, the America expert, who so easily said "graduate school" instead of “postgraduate school.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He was about to finish college and assumed he’d be drafted into the army as soon as he graduated. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He turns eighteen tomorrow, and he officially became a high school graduate yesterday. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Please forward us your resume, including previous research experience, graduate and postgraduate transcripts, and two letters of recommendation. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I had discarded my presumptions that graduates automatically became leaders and that my connection to the Thembu royal house guaranteed me respect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time they graduated, the war would be over and they would marry, buy a house, settle down. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Every graduate of Lincoln Elementary School for the past thirty-five years could remember standing at that table listening to Mrs. Granger’s battle cry: “Look it up. That’s why we have the dictionary.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z To the physicists, the separation and purification of radioisotopes seemed a black art; but it was well within the capabilities of a graduate chemist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It has, to be sure, linkages of various kinds, arrangements with outside universities for certain graduate programs, and it adheres delicately, somewhat ambiguously, to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute just up the street. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the quick engagement, they waited two years to get married, by which time Joy was a junior and Bill a recent graduate looking for work. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “You’re a guy. You come from money, you’re white, you have really good teeth, you graduated from Yale, the list goes on.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Our superintendent kept trying to get him to quit school, but Hosie vowed he was go’n graduate if it took him till he was thirty years old. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He had graduated from college in May and was thinking about going to medical school, but he wanted to see the world before committing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “She didn’t even graduate. What was the point of her going to school if all she was going to be was a receptionist?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The opportunity to get on with it arrived when Lawrence’s graduate student Niels Edlefsen completed his doctoral work early in the new year. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As I worked my way through graduate school studying writing, I became fixated on the idea of someday telling Henrietta’s story. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She looked happy in the picture, probably excited to be graduating from high school. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Finally, Miguel finished his thesis, graduated, and began to look for work. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother was a graduate of the public school system in New York herself, and the daughter of a public school teacher in the same system. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z After I took the oath, the families of the graduates flooded the field, and she was swept away in a tide of Gens Aquilla before I had a chance to speak to her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z At the same time, there was a constant shower of threats about stopping him from graduating. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An overhead projector beamed a movie onto the dummy to her left, turning it into a perky woman who looked like Haley would probably look a couple of years after she graduated from college. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Their parents, understanding the importance of a bachelor’s degree, spent hours reading to them, researching school districts, and making it clear to them that they simply must graduate from college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z My roommate’s uncle had graduated from the school years earlier and was now a successful business executive. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Right after he graduated, he signed up for four years with the Marines. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Even though he'd graduated from Lynbrook before I enrolled, he was the kind of guy who was still talked about in the hallways. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Nowadays tens of thousands of university graduates do, and many millions of people are at least familiar with the idea. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I was graduating with straight As and I still had the support of my friends and family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z When I’d stood under the flag and I’d looked up at Paul, who promised to take care of me, he had only recently graduated high school. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z By Pearl Harbor Day there were eight hundred and forty-three people of Japanese descent living there, including twelve seniors at Amity Harbor High School who did not graduate that spring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He’d enlisted after graduating from Jefferson last year, was only a couple years older than me, so I probably should have cared, but seriously, I just couldn’t get past Lance. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Dr. Kerr, a graduate of Edinburgh University, was virtually the founder of Fort Hare and was a greatly respected man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He would be graduating this year, and he finally wanted to give breakdancing a shot before he went off to college and everything changed. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Some were lawyers and well-known citizens, such as Samuel Adams of Boston, a graduate of Harvard and cousin of John Adams, a future President of the United States. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It is nice to think that there are so many unsolved puzzles ahead for biology, although I wonder whether we will ever find enough graduate students. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone spread the story years ago, when he first appeared around college from wherever he came from, that he was a graduate of the divinity school. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It won’t be until June 11, 1998, when I can proudly say, “Now my dream of being the first person in my family to graduate is coming true!” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z By the time they graduated, he had fallen for Shaker Heights as well, the way Elena described it: the first planned community, the most progressive community, the perfect place for young idealists. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At the clinic, Dr. Han was greeted immediately by Nurse Pak, a recent graduate of a nursing high school, who was training with Head Nurse Cha. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Ms. Evans said that me and Quincy are the only Speddies graduating this year. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I saw myself living the college life, all I needed was to graduate from high school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z His speech, which defended a jailed socialist, did not please his high school principal, but he graduated near the top of his class. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It began when he was a graduate student at Cornell. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They had walked side by side through graduate school and marriage, children and the move to Newport News. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Some of them deserved a shot at a national varsity championship before they graduated. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A search party of graduate students found him hours later, wandering in the woods in the outskirts of Austin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As soon as you add an intensifier, you’re turning an all-or-none dichotomy into a graduated scale. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z So I took pride in sliding gracefully from Vietnam to graduate school, from Quang Ngai to Harvard, from one world to another. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They don’t believe he’s a graduate student in Astrophysics out chasing butterflies, they think he’s a spy, although they can’t figure out why he would have been so open about it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “So, like, you in college and you hate law, so when you graduate you want to be in this?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I’m going to make sure they do, even if I have to keep volunteering her for projects ’til we graduate. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s where people like Mikey Sanders go to do things they shouldn’t be doing. You want to graduate? You want to go to college?” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z “In a week or two the fans will think he already graduated,” said Trapper. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a sister, who had been sent to America with him at the same time to live with the uncle, who would graduate from normal school this year. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Now seven months since I graduated, my phone had stopped ringing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She looked at the large image of her graduating class in their seats, wearing their hats and shiny gowns. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In the room, a female graduate student evidently immune to the smell sat working on a spectrograph, an instrument for measuring electromagnetic radiation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I managed to graduate from high school, and I began taking classes to be a nurse. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But the graduating classes themselves were the nobility. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I could even help my mom out after I graduate. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Even at the graduate and research level, there are ominous signs. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She promised me that when I graduated from high school, I could skip college altogether and move in with her. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I’d graduated from a training bra to one that looked vaguely more womanly, which also thrilled me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Everything is such a mess, and I can’t wait to graduate, but I still feel this twinge of nostalgia for my time at Batavia High School as it draws to a close. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z By the late 1980s, hip-hop had graduated from being the underground art of the Bronx to a rising global culture. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It was like graduating from a tricycle to a motorbike: scary, but thrilling. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Another case involved a male graduate student who arrived at the Brigham near death. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Every June during the time of our school exhibition, the graduating class gave orations and dialogues on Friday night. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I’m caught up, but it’s now or never if I want to graduate in May.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Actually, Vera had barely graduated from Norman Thomas High School and hadn’t set foot in a building of higher education since. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I still got two years to go before I graduate. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She said, “I understand, Ruth. I’ll graduate by myself, then, because I don’t want to graduate next to anyone but you.’ The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z With that step, Ernest Lawrence became more than just another physics professor with a clutch of graduate students in his charge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Almost before I knew it, the day came when I graduated from the mission school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Luckily, I only had two months of school left, and I’d already earned enough credits to graduate, even if I coasted from here on out. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He graduated and traveled through Latin America and Asia. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z After all my hard work trying to make it, this was the first time since graduating from college that I felt like I had finally achieved something meaningful. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The assistants are graduate students who help Dr. Zamborska’s research while they study for advanced degrees. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since graduating from college, he has worked in education and now serves as dean at a prestigious high school outside Philadelphia. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They’re cleaner and more earnest, and they want paying jobs when they graduate. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He was unusually bright, accomplished, and ambitious, and he had graduated from Franklin High School two years early, at the age of sixteen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Now . . . well, after what happened in Tartarus, it seemed like Percy had graduated to a totally different level of butt-kickery. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He did a count at Mass and figured the chapel was about a third full—not bad given that there was no new batch of seventh graders to replace the seniors who’d graduated. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z This was a device known as a ‘compass’—a graduated metal instrument that could be used as a calculator. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But he soon moved on to Padua, where he was taught by Fabricius and graduated as a doctor of medicine in 1602.. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I was sixteen when I started in his class, a week short of eighteen when I graduated from high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I barely hear her over the ceaseless beating of the drums, which are ordering all graduates to the armory to pick up our ceremonials— the armor of a full Mask. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Yet, in four years we will be college graduates. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z My mother was one of the first few blacks to integrate the University of Arkansas, graduating in 1954. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That June Danny and I were among the seventy-eight students who were graduated from Hirsch College, to the accompaniment of numerous speeches, applause, honorary degrees, and family congratulations. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The graduates sat in the front part of the auditorium and the guests in the back. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Ruben wants to join the Foreign Service after he graduates from Columbia and bounce around the Third World. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He rolls over and takes me by the shoulder, holding on tight like I’m graduating from high school and he’s handing me a diploma. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He had never graduated from college but had fooled hospital officials into believing he was a trained physician with expertise in psychiatry. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Most of them had just graduated from a city university and couldn’t rock the boat. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z They had an even stronger bond between them; neither of them had graduated. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Considering the importance of what he had found, Becquerel did a very strange thing: he turned the matter over to a graduate student for investigation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Following her graduate work at the University of Michigan, Hoover had worked at the Weather Bureau for three years. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I heard that you’re smarter than Einstein. That you’ve already graduated from college. And that you can move stuff with your mind.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The graduate student across the room had stopped talking; he was staring out the window. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My best teachers in college and graduate school, years before, had tried to prepare me for this conclusion, I think, when they discussed texts of aristocratic pastoral literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To get into and succeed in a reasonably competitive graduate program, meanwhile, you probably need an IQ of at least 115. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z If you were in the upper quarter of the graduating class at Stuyvesant, you were virtually assured of being able to get into a highly ranked college. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Whiteman had graduated from high school the previous summer and planned to make his living as a carpenter and, he hoped, as an artist. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He had to study hard if he expected to graduate in time to attend the university in the fall. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My room was in the graduate dorms near the law school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He handed me a white enamel graduate and what looked like a battery hydrometer. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The evening’s speaker might be a graduate student assigned to explicate a recent paper from Europe, or a visiting luminary discussing his own work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z While I was desultorily attending graduate school, I met in the coffee shop one day a Miss Myma Minkoff, a young undergraduate, a loud, offensive maiden from the Bronx. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now fourteen, Helmuth graduates into the Hitler Youth proper, though he skips the meetings as often as he dares. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Boston University, and her otherwise all male class elected her class president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In August 1856, after two years, James earned his bachelor of arts degree and graduated with honors. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “The kids who graduate from your school get jobs. They have lives.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z After graduating fifth in her law school class, Justice clerked for a federal judge, then joined Lexington’s largest law firm, where she put in long hours in hopes of making partner. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He was wearing his old graduate school T-shirt. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Grandfather stands in his box, backed by the rest of the family, reminding everyone here that one of the Empire's most powerful gens has seen a son graduate today. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z All I know is that I’m going to pack my bags when I graduate and say, “Peace out, mothafuckas.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She intended to put her degree to use as a teacher, of course; there were practically as many teachers in her family as there were Hampton Institute graduates. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Two of her siblings had attended Johnson C. Smith, in Charlotte; one had graduated from Tennessee State, and another from Fisk, in Nashville. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Raised in northern California, graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently in Berlin on a grant from the Kiinsderhaus Bethanien. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Their plan became this: he would come to America the minute he graduated. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The wooden bleachers that circled the floor were full of family, friends, and supporters of the crop of graduates, who had yet to enter the room. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Ms. Gruwell is an advocate of the team method, which is why she began a mentoring program between her graduate students at National University and the Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I had never gone to graduate school, and although several of my stories had been Xeroxed and stapled, none of them had ever been published in the traditional sense of the word. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z So what was I doing in racist Reardan, where more than half of every graduating class went to college? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z There was also a picture of Bill and his girlfriend when they were at Brown together in graduate school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s a tiny, cluttered one-bedroom affair furnished by the Salvation Army and done up in late seventies graduate student decor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It is true that as more and more persons were graduating from college in the sixties, the diploma’s value on the job market diminished. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Taylor graduated early from high school, in 2013, at the age of sixteen, and was the valedictorian at InTech Collegiate High School. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Most fast-food jobs were taken by college students—or more accurately, by college graduates. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z They’d be kidded forever: they wouldn’t care because they were graduating, but she would have to sit there for three more years. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The two younger people working with him, George and Julie, were graduate students in biology. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Ernestine, who had graduated from high school the night before Dad died, said she didn’t care anything about college either. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z That time I knew Calista was lying, because she already told me before that she moved to New York to go to graduate school to study art. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z For a decade after graduating from college he probed his soul for signs of a divine calling while earning his keep as a country schoolteacher and then apprentice lawyer. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Sure enough, all five of her daughters graduated from college. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Rader did most of the talking at the press conference, and he was good at it, having graduated first in his class from law school. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Rocco is a graduate student in English literature at the university where Aaron coaches women’s soccer. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah!” he answered, “people really do that. I’ve had students send me new precepts years after they’ve graduated from this school, actually. It’s pretty amazing.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Maybe if she would have said no and stuck to it, she’d be getting ready to graduate with her class right now. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z When it hit three hundred, one of Flom’s partners—Morris Kramer—came to him and said that he felt guilty about bringing in young law school graduates. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He’d let it slip my last night on Buck’s Peak, the same night he’d said he wouldn’t come to see me graduate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z What Lempert is saying is that by the only measure that a law school really ought to care about—how well its graduates do in the real world—minority students aren’t less qualified. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z A senior in 1931-32, he would graduate with ten varsity letters, including three in basketball and three in baseball. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z As far as the school was concerned, he had gotten away with it, and he graduated with his class—and his Band-Aids. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We were going to graduate in a few weeks, and I would never speak another word to any of them. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I might as well graduate from Class Five with you two dummies,” he told his friends. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I still don’t trust him. As soon as I graduate from high school, me and you are gettin’ out of here!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I wound up concentrating my course work on international politics and development, and now I’ve graduated and am on an AirFrance plane beginning its descent into familiar old Kinshasa. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They were both eighteen, but so far neither of them had graduated from high school. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Of course he doesn’t know that my father has multiple graduate degrees. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I pretend that I’ll be graduating in a few months and going to college, like my friends. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z They played at the Polo Club, which had been started by a graduate of St. Paul’s and Princeton whose father had been an executive at U.S. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After Josh graduated from Hampshire College, he and his girlfriend, Safron, joined us in Cambridge, England, where the Courters had arranged to exchange homes with a British family the summer before I started high school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I soon graduated to the next level of responsibility, which was night duty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But she was feisty and tough, so she kept going and graduated from high school, too, a few years after I did. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt a strange sense of having passed a test, graduated to a new level of maturity. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “We here in Virginia do a good job of getting them in,” said Glenn Dubois, chancellor of the Virginia Community College System and himself a community college graduate. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It would be impossible for me to replace it in the month before Lori graduated. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Eighteen, sir. I graduated early,” Benton said proudly. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “The thing is, this is going to be our last spring concert before the three of us graduate.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z One minute after I graduate from high school I’ll be in my own apartment, me and Mike. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z In my penmanship class at school, we had recently graduated from pencil to ink. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z What would happen to me after I graduated? Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z She looks like she could have just graduated from college. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m actually going to be the first person in my family to graduate!!! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s one of the reasons why Brady left after he graduated from high school. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He graduated a year ahead of me and had been going to Florida State to study medicine on a full scholarship. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Most people with his job have graduated from college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I was going to miss this place when I graduated in a few months. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The seven before me all graduated and most went on for higher degrees. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My plan was, as I taught, also to study, to take graduate courses in English literature and possibly writing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z His response to the mounting demands was not to reorder priorities to give his staff and graduate students some breathing space, but to add a late-night shift to keep the cyclotron running around the clock. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She still has her long braids when she graduates. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He joined the air force soon after he graduated from high school, and he and my grandma first met when he was stationed at a military base in San Antonio. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “It’s just, they give you all this attention and then they graduate. Older boys, I mean.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z One of my new hires was Michael O'Connor, a recent Yale Law School graduate with a passion for helping people in trouble that had been kindled by his own struggles earlier in life. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I had studied Sweden’s progressive approach to the rehabilitation of criminal offenders as a graduate student and had long marveled at how focused on recovery their system appeared. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We were supposed to teach graduate students about diversity in the classroom because they were going to be the future teachers of America. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “What if I don’t get to graduate on time because I missed too many days of school?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But there was not time to prepare this seminar, so I gave it myself, with one of my graduate students repeating my words. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he’d been invited to Harvard to speak to the graduate students of Henry Kissinger, a professor of international relations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to do like these other mothers and brag about, ‘My baby graduated from high school!’” she said the other day. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In college and graduate school, I was registered as an ‘English major.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To him, and to Yin Lan-lan, and to the others who were not even sure of graduating, this was wonderful news. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day there was a luncheon for honors graduates, and I was seated with the college dean and the director of the honors program. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I haven’t even graduated high school, and this is the kinda stuff we have to deal with already.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z All of them sit on folding wooden chairs, like graduating students who are about to be given prizes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z As a graduate from the Domestic Academy, Lorena knows to ask for the name of a caller. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He had graduated from Howard University in 1929 and took a seat in the school’s inaugural one-year master s degree program in mathematics—the same offer Dorothy had been unable to accept. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Our first gig was a New Year’s Eve party the summer we graduated from Sandringham. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z After a series of formation drills, the graduates march to the wooden benches at the center of the field and draw scims, holding them high. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Anyway, he graduates, and the whole auditorium gives him a standing ovation, which is weird but kind of cool. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It is true that the Chicago students who entered the school-choice lottery were more likely to graduate than the students who didn’t—which seems to suggest that school choice does make a difference. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She had to repeat a few classes, but she eventually graduated with a master’s degree. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Her children live in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and her youngest just graduated from high school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The luckiest person on that day was a graduate student named Harry Glicken. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She didn’t feel bad about missing all the horrible stuff—the tributes, the look back at the shattered graduating class. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The previous spring, I'd been on the back porch wondering if I could just move over to Uncle Earl’s when I graduated, when Mom called me into the house. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z When I asked one of my freshmen if he thought he’d graduate, he said. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Casual and fun-loving, John almost flunks out of his new school until he considers the trust he's been given and the shame he would face if he returned without graduating. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Challenges, queries, and criticisms were fired at me by the usually objective and always alive and searching minds of undergraduate and graduate students, and their faculties. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "I already graduated from school. Not with marks like yours, but they gave me a diploma and everything." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The three dancers in the piece, all recent graduates of Juilliard themselves, bring a distinctive vocabulary to the montage, drawing viewers into an experience that is at once life-affirming and joyful, without any bubble-gum sentimentality. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z After graduating third in his class from Harvard University, Ellsberg stunned friends and professors alike by applying for officer’s training with the Marine Corps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Well, I was thinking about graduate school, but I’m not sure which one,” Cabot answered. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z To be fair, sometimes the topic of conversation really is the activity of researchers, such as an overview intended to introduce graduate students or other insiders to the scholarly literature in their chosen profession. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was “we,” the graduating class, the unit, that concerned me then. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the fifth grade wasn’t involved, because they needed to focus on the spring tests to make sure they graduated and moved on to middle school. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Lynn wanted to go to summer school so one day she could graduate high school early. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “The point is, get ready to party in the Windy City, graduate.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She did her graduate work at NYU, and for three weeks the four of us stayed in the city and socialized with her former teachers and classmates—novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, poets. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “You get killer grades, you graduate top of your class, you have your pick of teaching positions.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, nursing-home residents resemble oddly dressed graduate students, and beautiful women in adult diapers are driving very slowly and blocking the grocery store aisles with their carts. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z There was a long letter from a former graduate student who wrote about her life after the university. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A Langley engineer in the old style, Pearson had graduated from Worcester Polytechnic in Massachusetts and started work at the lab in 1930. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Granddaddy had graduated from the high school of Selma University in 1920. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My work alone had awarded me a top place and I was going to be one of the first called in the graduating ceremonies. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z After he graduated, he and Margaret built their first lab in a janitor’s quarters at Hopkins—they spent weeks wiring, painting, plumbing, building counters and cabinets, paying for much of it with their own money. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He majored in political science and English and by going year-round he graduated in three years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The students showed dramatic improvements in their test scores in several subjects, and many more of them graduated from high school and applied to college. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “When we go to college, we’re not going to live in a dormitory. We’re going to live on the very top floor of a tall apartment building. I’ll be in graduate school.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z A graduate of the University of Iowa, he had been a student trainer there on a wrestling team that won the national championship. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite everything, I am still graduating in June and entering college in August. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Those’re just things people say before they graduate from high school. I mean, some of it might be wise, but it doesn’t help with today’s problem.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Then, on Sunday, I will watch everyone graduate and spend time with my brother and all the family because of my sister. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Wright is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wright, long time residents of Bethel Park, and an older sister, Mia Wright, who graduated from the district in 1980. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z From grammar school to graduate school I could always name my reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves, the son of an army chaplain, was a West Point graduate who tipped the scale at three hundred pounds and was not shy about throwing his weight around. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There's the garden where we had a party when I graduated from high school. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Might make me graduate late, might even set me back a whole year. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A native of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, a graduate of Harvard Law, Bloom had been married once before, to a rich young Bostonian named Sherri Pope, a Radcliffe graduate with a master’s in education. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, I have some good news too, I guess. A little more of a plan for when I graduate,” Dill said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z After graduating from BYU law school, he worked in several county attorney’s offices in the state, spent a year as the Logan city prosecutor, and in 1997, he joined the Cache County office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “They did, sir. When I graduated with my platoon, one of them told me he had never heard a voice like mine in boot camp.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sonia graduated and got a job with the New York Times. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the spring, when Mr. Armstrong was interviewing a journalism school graduate for a job opening, a mouse ran over her foot, and she screamed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z What would become of her classes, would she be expelled, could she still graduate and go to college? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If they survived long enough to graduate from high school, they either stayed on as counselors or left to start lives as best they could in the mortal world. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z "What do you have in mind after you graduate?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z All new graduates to training field one for combat practice immediately. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A dean said he was certain that after I graduated I would be able to work among ‘my people.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was but a couple of blocks from the park which she visited every day, but for some reason or other, Francie had never gone back to see it since the night she graduated. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “My father gave it to me when I graduated from high school.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “About your mark: You haven’t turned in work this term. I should have failed you. But at the last moment, I decided to pass you so that you could graduate with your class.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He graduated to the tail of the family mule, and eventually, hanging off the tail of an obliging horse named Paint, he began to run, a gait that initially caused him excruciating pain. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Large classes were graduating from both the grammar school and the high school. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But Diderot had one great advantage over us: graduating from the Sorbonne in 1732, he had been educated in the world of Aristotelian philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But it was privately, not through the government, and not for advanced field training, but for graduate study. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the roughly six hundred African American boys who started Oakland high schools as freshmen each year, only about three hundred ended up graduating. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z On the ragged edge, a neat person had printed in blue ink, “P.A.” and the year the actor, dancer, or musician had graduated. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Franz's son had been due to graduate from medical school the following June. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “The campaign job. I don’t wanna wait until I graduate. I already read all the materials you gave me. Twice. I have time. I can start now.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The lithium experiment was in the hands of a graduate student named Milton White, who now got his first exposure to Ernest Lawrence in the throes of a mania. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Cora always arranged the children at the starting line, aiming their feet, calming the skittish ones, and graduating some to the older kids’ race if need be. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Boys from my graduating class are signing up and shipping out, and every week there’s a farewell potluck dinner in a church basement or the lobby of the Roxy or in someone’s home. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Wearing the same dress- blues uniforms we had graduated in the Friday before, we stood at our tables and snapped to attention when the training lieutenant, Wilkin, entered the room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was considered educated, having graduated from grammar school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He is polite and thoughtful and unexpectedly modest, and he talks with the quiet earnestness of a graduate student. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “You know, Dwayne’s been talking about getting married since we started dating. He can hardly stand it, but I’m fixin’ on graduating first. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z "But we sure didn't graduate together, 'cause I still ain't graduated." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z We had been told over and over again by the principal, Dr. Alexander Kerr, and Professors Jabavu and Matthews how, as graduates of Fort Hare, we were the African elite. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For years after graduate school, she wrote down poet under profession in questionnaires and income tax forms, and later amended it to writer-slash-teacher. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He graduated from this to saying that he was Allah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was an upperclassman, one of Dorothy’s professors at Wilberforce recommended her for graduate study in mathematics at Howard University, in what would be the inaugural class for a master’s degree in the subject. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s someone who graduated, I tell myself; maybe it’s someone I’ll meet next year in high school. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z At the funeral, his brave mother boldly told us that her son accomplished all three of his goals—to get his driver’s license, to graduate from high school, and to go to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It will have to find new ways for relating to the universities, if its graduate programs are to expand as they should. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Two years later, Ahmad had graduated and was crisscrossing the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “I met my wife in graduate school,” I said to Sandy Sterling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She was a Speddie that graduated a year before Biddy and me. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Penn had swapped out three of its eight Poughkeepsie oarsmen, replacing them with recent graduates not eligible to race in the intercollegiate regatta but perfectly legal in Olympic trials. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After graduating from high school, she enrolled in the Community College of Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Pearson, ending graduate school admission policies that explicitly barred black students. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He had been refused a visa years ago, when he was newly graduated and drunk with American ambitions, but with his new bank statements, he easily got a visa. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Jerome graduated from Fisk and was drafted into the Air Force. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z April was a recent graduate of BYU who modeled for a local diet center where she worked. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Mathematics majors who continue their studies will find that graduate education in mathematics, in great contrast to that at lower levels, is the best in the world. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I told Lori that if she hadn’t been accepted into an art school by the time she graduated, she should go to New York anyway. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “No. Comparative politics. You can't do just Africa in political science graduate programs in this country. You can compare Africa to Poland or Israel but focusing on Africa itself? They don't let you do that.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Some were in graduate school, some in medical school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of his meager graduate student wages he sets aside money to send every few months to his father to help put an extension on his parents’ house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One of my best teachers in graduate school seemed surprised that I always brought up the subject. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A high school graduate, Dwight Blevins was laid off from his own warehouse job and ended up with another one that paid less and offered a smaller pension. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I’m not sure if he had on a sharp suit, or just jeans and a T-shirt, because he wore a long burgundy robe like the ones you wear when you graduate from high school. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A walking model of all the various styles of fine hand sewing and it didn’t worry me that I was only twelve years old and merely graduating from the eighth grade. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But mother said it would have to happen after she was finished taking graduate degree courses at the University of Arkansas. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A few years ago, however, the University of Michigan decided to look closely at how the law school’s minority students had fared after they graduated. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was a select group, an elite group, a great number of us being Fort Hare graduates; we were far from a mass movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A sign to the left read main office, and a corkboard next to it listed the graduating seniors’ college destinations: Yale, Penn, Harvard, Brown, Williams, Princeton, Swarthmore, Dartmouth, Stanford. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She’d just graduated high school like he had, and had apparently gotten into Stanford. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He was tough enough to keep me from graduating. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Sidelsky, whom I came to respect greatly and who treated me with enormous kindness, was a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand and was in his mid-thirties when I joined the firm. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You're graduating from college next year; why don't you cook a meal for a change?” she points out, twisting the cap back onto her bottle of nail polish. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I left a note for the professor in my own department at Berkeley who was in charge of helping graduate students look for teaching positions. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Today is the anniversary of my daddy’s death. He didn’t even see me graduate from college.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Proletarians, in practice, are not allowed to graduate into the Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He had been voted “Most Studious Student” by his graduating class at North Farmington High School, outside Detroit, which, as he puts it, meant that he was a “no-date nerd.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z At thirty-five he had just been unwillingly evicted from the Youth League, and before graduating into the Youth League he had managed to stay on in the Spies for a year beyond the statutory age. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She helped me through college and helped me get into graduate school as well; she didn’t pay my way, but if I had an emergency, she would help. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Joshua had always expected that Katherine would earn a graduate degree, but the circumstances made finishing the program impossible. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Papa would have gone to see her graduate if he were living. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He himself graduated in law from Leicester University, and now he was going to the LSE to write a doctoral thesis on law and poverty in the third world. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “What do you plan to do when you graduate?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Real,” Emmett says, “was going to college. Mother was on the honor roll. Only the fourth black kid to graduate her school. She became a teacher. Mother said, ‘Do better than me. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z He had graduated from Navajo High School several years before and was still remembered there as a serious and hardworking student. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z By the spring of that year, when it came time to elect the annual carnival queen from the graduating seniors, my homeroom chose me. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z With such a loving “extended” family, I got back the strength to fight for my dreams: to graduate from high school and go to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I could stay and graduate from Welch High and go to Bluefield State, as Miss Katona had suggested, then get a job at The Welch Daily News. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In her late teens—already graduated from college—she traveled to Germany to visit her brother, who was stationed there as a sailor in the U.S. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Things will be different once I graduate. Daddy won’t be this way forever.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z At Harvard, I could study law while pursuing a graduate degree in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, which appealed to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Katherines love for Jimmy and her confidence in the new path her life had taken softened her fathers hard line on graduate school, and he certainly couldn’t resist the thrill of the family’s first grandchild. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When Theodore Hall graduated high school at the age of thirteen, he listed his three top career options: comedian, journalist, physicist. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I even applied to Teach for America—the national teacher placement organization that places college graduates in needy schools in underserved communities. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I graduated from this high school,” she said, “and all I ever heard was football, football, football. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if science was another way to get in this trophy case?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She thought it was preposterous, that she, a girl of fourteen, with nothing but a grade school education, would be considered eligible to take over the work of a thirty-year-old college graduate like Miss Armstrong. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As a young college graduate, she had regarded suffragists with a skeptical eye. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They also engaged the best seamstresses to make the floating graduating dresses and to cut down secondhand pants which would be pressed to a military slickness for the important event. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But many other pillars of the old system—the polite rejections of women or blacks, the spots reserved for graduates of Choate and Exeter—have crumbled. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “He was valedictorian of his graduating class,” I said. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z After graduating from North Carolina A&T, Blair left the state for a job in Massachusetts, where he continues to live, working with developmentally disabled adults. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Malpighi studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Bologna, graduating in 1653, and became a lecturer in logic at Bologna, before moving to the University of Pisa in 1656 as professor of theoretical medicine. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In a few years he will graduate and pave his way, alone and unprotected. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Ernie became the first of our people to graduate from Central High School in all its forty- nine years. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The graduating students occupied Room 8 of the Ember School. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “It’d be just like him to expel you two weeks before you graduate.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I shudder with the same left- behind feeling I’ve had since I graduated from college, three months ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Because I already have a bad rap and I want her to know that I’m really trying to do everything I can to not be like that. I’ma graduate. And I’ma make her happy.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I was invited to lecture at schools that only a few years before would have rejected my application for graduate study. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He weighed a hundred and fifty-four—the same as he had the day he graduated from Kansas State University, where he had majored in agriculture. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “She graduated from culinary school a couple of years ago. She’s our second-best icing froster. The best being me, of course.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Berkeley attracted the most promising young graduate students, hosted the most eminent visiting lecturers, pocketed the largest contributions from research foundations and garnered the lion’s share of public interest and acclaim. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then she rambled on about how graduating from high school wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be and how much she hated her job at the Waffle House. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z At a time when nine out of ten students never even graduated from high school, she was aiming at college. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He was himself a lawyer, a graduate of Howard University and Howard Law School, and a top executive with the North Carolina Mutual, a company which his family had proudly served since 1906. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to go back to England for graduate school, she said. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He studied music as a graduate student, performed professionally with orchestras and ensembles, composed music, and conducted. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z After graduating our first class of twenty-seven Allies in the spring, we welcomed a new set of forty in the fall and continued to grow from there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And now we’re about to graduate, and all I have to show for it is the saddest crush of the century. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “I don’t have to like him. I’m graduating, remember?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Oh, and by the way, in graduate school he tried to kill his tutor. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Advanced civilizations may have graduated far beyond radio for their own communications. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Like travelers with exotic destinations on their minds, the graduates were remarkably forgetful. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “He graduated high school years before even our mothers. This must’ve been here over twenty years.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z As a graduate student from a poor family, he also had money worries. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Cheryl went to college despite all of the odds against her and she graduated with honors. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Less than half of all African children of school age attended any school at all, and only a tiny number of Africans were graduated from high school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Blake was twenty-three and had just graduated from college; Josh was twenty and still in college. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “I assume I didn’t graduate during the year I was in a coma, so I still need to finish, right?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Here I am, with a dented head and still manage to graduate. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If Joe graduated from a school as highly regarded as Roosevelt, Fred said, he just might be able to get into the University of Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I studied philosophy in college and didn’t realize until my senior year that no one would pay me to philosophize when I graduated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Most of the graduates are girls whose faces have not yet formed; my mother’s face will not change anymore, except to age. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He graduated and went to America, then came back a short while afterwards, very furtive and very wealthy from what many said was a massive credit card fraud. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They met in graduate school; he flitted from lab to lab with a prodigious curiosity but little perseverance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Every year, he dispatched his most promising graduate astronomers to the great European centers of scientific learning, such as Cambridge, Manchester, Paris, or Gottingen, Germany. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This year, they’d both be moving up to the varsity team since about half the starters from last year had graduated. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When Marina graduated from high school in 1929, her focus on chemistry helped her find a job as an apprentice in a dye factory, and six months later she became a full technician. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But the economic reality that confronted Dorothy when she came out of college made graduate study seem like an irresponsible extravagance. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When Margaret was twelve years old, my mother was one of her mother’s graduate students. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After graduating from high school, de la O hung out on the street with the West Side Party Boys. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Toby told him that when he graduated, he could’ve had almost a year’s worth of college credit if Jimmy would’ve sprung for the test fees. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Although preliminary analysis by Clausen and a graduate student, Edward Treadwell, indicated the seeds contained traces of an alkaloid, subsequent, more thorough testing turned up no indication of any alkaloids whatsoever, toxic or otherwise. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t believe we have to keep playacting until I graduate. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Nice try. You’re not going anywhere until you graduate and get assigned to your own patrol.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Born in 1913 in Buffalo, New York, she had been a prizewinning graduate student in math. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Yesterday, my science teacher told me that I’m failing her class and I need to pass the class to graduate. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Evidently, every high school student would now have to perform community-service hours every semester in order to graduate, effective immediately. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He worked, after graduating from college, for Westinghouse, building nuclear submarines. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, in graduate school at Indiana University, it was my hope that the gene might be solved without my learning any chemistry. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “You know better than to gallivant around wearing corsets and carrying firearms. You’re in your last year! I expect better from students about to graduate.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I knew nonwhite graduate students who were bewildered by the requirement to compose a term paper and who each day were humiliated when they couldn’t compete with other students in seminars. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Both were graduates of Hampton Institute in Virginia. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In my department that year there were five black graduate students. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In my era at Truman, many graduates did go on to achieve high levels of success—they became doctors, lawyers, college professors, engineers, business owners, high-ranking military officers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It was the custom to present bouquets to the girl graduates. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In June 1997, a few weeks after graduating from Smith, Luma gave her parents the news by telephone: she was staying in the United States—not for a little while, but forever. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Then he avoided the tender subject altogether, wrote philosophical notes to Jo, turned studious, and gave out that he was going to ‘dig’, intending to graduate in a blaze of glory. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Her success earned her an offer for a graduate fellowship, but she thought spending three years studying a single medieval poet sounded restricting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Well, we came as graduate students. I applied to Emory University business school and Grandma applied to Georgia Tech for a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The average debt among graduates was two hundred dollars, it said, and the average four-year tab was more than two thousand. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The kid had already graduated from the bunny slopes, and I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a bunny slope. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “Why don't you graduate first? Find me then.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Knowing: I was not really more socially disadvantaged than the white graduate students in my classes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After the play, they marched up, got their diplomas and were graduates at last. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Ocean and I had two and a half months of perfect happiness before my dad broke the news, in the beginning of May, that we’d be leaving town as soon as Navid graduated. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He graduated from this part of the course in 1591, second out of a class of fourteen, and moved on to his theological studies described by his tutors as an exceptional student. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Jim Johnson had planned to attend Hampton Institute but was drafted right after graduating from high school. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I knew he would be the one graduating from here.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z For more about forbid, see page 61. graduated. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesse was nineteen, a graduate of Middleton High, in an even smaller and emptier town a few miles away. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I feel good. We high school graduates are often called upon to drive at night and we rise to the occasion. Is Okra in the car?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as they dropped out or graduated, they got a notice to report to the draft board. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The second scroll is a long narrow photograph of the graduating class with the school officials seated in front. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re only in eighth grade, but everyone knows she’s already picked out her first three college choices, her probable major and potential minor and the focus of her eventual graduate studies. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t leading a graduate seminar at some prestigious university. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It happened quickly: Eleazar, just twenty years old, had recently graduated from Union College and returned to the family estate forty miles northwest of Albany, planning to study law under his father. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “When I was in graduate school, interning at the museum. I was there on a scholarship for Fair students.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “I’m gonna be a politician. You always knew that. I’m starting as soon as I graduate...in a month. This is how my life is gonna be, okay? I’m choosing it.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Ninety percent of the As graduated from college and among them had earned 98 graduate degrees. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When I graduate, he’s going to be left alone in middle school. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z I was on the verge of confessing the whole thing—that I’d never gone to school, that I hadn’t really met the requirements to graduate—when she added, “This class is for seniors.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Instead, soon after he graduated, Vesalius went to Italy, where he enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Padua at the end of 1537. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In 1977, after graduating from high school as a sixteen-year-old at the top of his class, he moved to Fairbanks and made Alaska his permanent home. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I want him and me to graduate together, and then there’s the whole summer for weddings.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z John and I came up with a contract stipulating that once the computers arrived the 35 students with the highest grade point average would win a computer when they graduated. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “You know, someone from the KKK who wants to collect that reward money could pretend to be a graduate.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I want her to graduate. My children will be the first ones in the Nolan family to get diplomas.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Ophelia Taylor, originally from Georgia, graduated from Hampton Institute, and prior to starting the class was running a nursery school. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I wanted to graduate, but I did not want to make a public speech that was not my own. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Months later, they graduated to utensils—a pitcher, a basket, a knife. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And from Rumpelstiltskin it graduated to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Over this rocky area relieved by a few shady tall persimmon trees the graduating class walked. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, and I had one more year to graduate. Thank you.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She’s probably got enough credits already to graduate from high school. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Hampden graduates never seemed to do anything after they got out of school but start little ceramics shops in Nantucket or join ashrams in Nepal. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Fewer than one hundred graduated with the requirements needed to attend a California state college or university. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But when I looked into the white graduate I hesitated; the liquid inside was dead black. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And this boy said something about how the football team hasn’t been the same since my brother graduated, and my dad thanked him. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z A friend of Ernest’s since their days as graduate students together, he left Yale to join the Rad Lab, where he would play out his long career as Lawrence’s right-hand man. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I can clearly remember saying to my black college roommate in my freshman year, “Racism is a problem that should end just about the time we graduate.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Most Allen graduates went on to higher education, some to prestigious northern schools like Vassar and Smith. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She couldn’t wait to graduate and kiss that school goodbye. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “You have to understand, Grandma is a very proud woman. A very smart woman. She had a really hard time working at Ford when she graduated.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Tony had stayed in school through high school, although he missed so many days working in the junkyard that he wasn’t able to graduate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Our high school, which had about twenty students at full strength, was down now to fifteen since two had graduated the previous spring and three had gone off to war. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dell finally graduated, on the six-and-a-half-year plan, with a degree in psychology. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “If we choose to put it into a football program, and the graduates from our high schools are at or above the state level of standards, then screw you, leave us alone.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Pat, a vivacious college beauty queen just two months graduated from Virginia State College, was marrying her college sweetheart, a young army corporal named Walter Kane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Paul Coughlin, president of the alumni association, started placing calls to some of the university’s more prominent graduates. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This creates attractive fellowships for graduate students and attractive staff positions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z James C. Evans, an MIT engineering graduate, ran the school’s trade and mechanical studies program before accepting a position as a Civilian Aide in the War Department in 1942. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As soon as he graduated from law school he was going to sue the city of Dearborn for housing discrimination. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There was only one kid out of our 700-student graduating class who was going to Harvard, and that was not me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z His name, we discovered, was John Deacon; he was my age—twenty—and had graduated from Equinox High School, over in Hoosatonic proper, only two years before. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He tries to act like he’s not even interested in school, like there’s no point in studying hard, or dreaming about tomorrow, or bothering to graduate. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The discussion soon yielded a formal offer from Conant of a $12,000 salary to cover a full professorship, along with the deanship of a new graduate school of engineering and applied science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So that lady told me again how Jackie was practically a grownup and would be graduating from high school in a couple of months. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He was equally enthralled by Lawrence’s innovative Journal Club, that weekly free-form exchange of scientific data and news for graduate students, physics faculty, and the occasional visiting eminences that Oppie called Lawrence’s “other great invention.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even after deciding to obtain a Ph.D. in physiology, I nearly dropped out of science during my first year of graduate school to become a linguist. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t have graduated without her. And if I hadn’t graduated, I would have never gotten that job at the telephone company, and I would have never met Gene, and...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “They were in the tenth graduating class since it was founded.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Some fifteen years later—after I had grown up, gotten married, graduated from Fisk University, and had two daughters of my own—my family and I moved back to Birmingham to live. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She graduated from high school at fourteen and enrolled at West Virginia State Institute, a black college located just outside of Charleston, the state capital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z At Ole Miss, Hilly and I roomed together for two years before she left to get married and I stayed on to graduate. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “I am a graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, currently employed as governess here at Ashton Place.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He should have graduated last year, but, like me, he had failed first grade because he did not speak English well enough. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Captain Ty Hill graduated from Valley Forge Military College and earned the rank of second lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Just as Link had warned, the segregationists were heating up their campaign to prevent Ernie, who was a senior, from graduating. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z College graduates have received steady pay increases over the past two decades, while the pay of everyone else has risen little more than the rate of inflation. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Militsa, who’d graduated from the Engels Flying School herself seven years ago, led the group between the clay houses of the town to their new home. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “It paid off! I graduated high school at sixteen. But, then, one year shy of an MBA...” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z By the second afternoon, I’d pretty much decided that after I graduated high school in June 2015, I wanted to be a Bruin. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I’ve known Richie for a long time. He’s a graduate of Howard University, and a working engineer. He’s also with the Guardians. “ Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z That is, a student who opted out of his neighborhood school was more likely to graduate whether or not he actually won the opportunity to go to a new school. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I’ll give it back after the Third World. And I promise to graduate.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z So, after completing my graduate degree, I joined the world of high finance on Wall Street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z By the time he graduated from Harvard with honors and the nickname “Teddy,” he surprised everyone again by going into politics. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He has graduate degrees from a prestigious university. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The next day he asked a Harvard graduate he knew how long it would take to learn Latin. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence did not yet command a laboratory staff—only three graduate students, each already working on projects he had approved. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When Justice won a scholarship to the University of Kentucky law school in Lexington, Price went with her, to graduate school in family studies. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z By the time they graduated, they were broke and in debt, with no money to set up a practice as veterinarians, and so they had enlisted in the Army together. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The only reason why she graduated was because her mother pressured her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He and Craig graduated from Princeton at the end of my sophomore year. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Very few people believed that I would graduate. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z After graduating, he continued to hang around the Washington shell house, informally advising students and coaches and generally helping out. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Here, the counselors have posted photos of graduates from last school year, each photo with a small sign under the name that lists the college the former graduates are attending. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Richardson, newly graduated from law school, was busy building his practice, working long hours in an attempt to make partner. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Junior answered, “Yeah, we did. All of us graduated high school and all seven of us graduated from college too. Our school was just six blocks from here. 1 graduated fourth in my class.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The principal warned Sophie that she might not graduate if she didn’t participate and show more enthusiasm for National Socialism. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She had graduated from a modern-style high school in 1914, a time when very few girls went to school at all. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Demographic change is too slow and subtle a process—you don’t graduate from teenage hoodlum to senior citizen in just a few years—to even begin to explain the suddenness of the crime decline. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For Nash, a school counselor and the only college graduate in the singing group, this was a snow day. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He had left right after secondary school to attend university in Indiana and had graduated years ago. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “As for the suffrage movement,” a young college graduate noted, “it is actually fashionable now.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z None of the professors who had welcomed them to graduate school were around when it came time to take them to the infirmary or to the airport. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Eric, the bulky kid with the red baseball cap and lazy eye, still plays for Mercer. Mike, the taller one with the stupid pop-star haircut, finally graduated last year. He goes to college around here.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “By the time I graduated from high school there were eleven of us.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, I'm counting the days until I graduate and head off to college. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Bailey had graduated the year before, although to do so he had had to forfeit all pleasures to make up for his time lost in Baton Rouge. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z My nephew, K. D. Matanzima, who had graduated several years before, drove my mother and No-England, the regent’s widow, to the ceremony. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The partners at the top firms graduated from the same Ivy League schools, attended the same churches, and summered in the same oceanside towns on Long Island. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He even talked enthusiastically about going on to get a law degree when he graduated. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d never lost his love for sleight of hand, and he graduated from palming coins to cards, cups, wallets, and watches. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z After graduating, he moved from Boston to Connecticut, to work for a firm near Hartford, and he had recently learned that he was being considered for the position of vice president. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I saw her dressed up only once, the day I graduated from high school. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, musicians also used the heavier narcotics, if I later wanted to graduate to them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched him peer into the graduate, lifting the dropper and sniffing it, his face glowing with exasperation. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z After I graduated, my mother and father encouraged me to come home to Birmingham and live with them until the baby was born. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After graduating from law school, I went back to the Deep South to represent the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “She graduated four years ago. And now she’s a graduate of Portland State University. You remind me so much of her,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “I didn’t graduate. I missed too much school after the accident.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z As part of my initial training I watched him work a Chinese graduate student at Columbia. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a year older than she was and had already graduated. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z After graduating from college, he moved to France knowing only the phrase "Do you speak French?"—a question guaranteed to get you nowhere unless you also speak the language. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Seattle is so annoying. I can’t wait until I graduate from high school and I can move literally anywhere else in the world.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “You should come to California with me. We could go to Disneyland or Universal Studios. You know, to celebrate graduating high school.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My parents had dreams that each of their children would graduate from college, so Dad earmarked the money from this job for college savings for the six of us kids. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z How much more important this was when the person was graduating at the top of the class. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I was actually glad that he would graduate high school before I started—I didn't want anyone to know that I was related to him. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In college, then in graduate school, he behaves much as he always has. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He also had become friends with Kyung’s twenty-something children: Eunice, a human rights activist he had met in Seoul, and her younger brother, David, a recent Yale graduate also interested in human rights. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He never graduated from high school, and being in and out of jail made it hard for him to get back on course, and get a real gig. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z In those days, I believed that proficiency in English and success in business were the direct result of high academic achievements and I assumed as a matter of course that Sisulu was a university graduate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know how she’ll survive without my shoulder when she graduates in a few months. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Maureen had graduated from high school and enrolled in one of the city colleges, but she never really applied herself and ended up living with Mom and Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He said Seven and I should be expelled because we “started it,” and that Seven shouldn’t be allowed to graduate. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Somehow the students had found one of those threats that that psychotic graduate student had flooded him with a few years before. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I stayed mostly out of it until Ben said, “Q, how are we going to graduate?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Everybody got to write you—but when you graduated, you got to write yourself. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z These students performed substantially better than they did in their old academic settings and graduated at a much higher rate than their past performance would have predicted. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I only have two weeks before grades close and there’s no way Mom will let me go if I don’t, well, graduate eighth grade. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z None of my aunts or uncles had graduated from college; many hadn't graduated from high school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Here I am eighteen years later knowing that I will graduate tomorrow. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Is that why you’re a teacher, to see who you can stop from graduating?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Ward says if I keep pulling up all my other grades the way I’ve pulled up my grade in English, I should be able to get into a decent college when I graduate. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He graduated from cardiac rehab with plans to join a health club with a pool. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “His beard, his earlocks, his clothes, his fringes—all this he will retain in graduate school?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Oscar who was on the football team before he graduated from high school grabs Charlie’s shirt and tears off two buttons. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Was it an expensive sculpture that some kid dropped and he had to pay for it out of his own money or they didn’t let him graduate?” asks another. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Militsa was a career military officer like Marina, an Air Force Academy graduate who’d already taken part in several Moscow air shows and even had some training as an attack pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As a result, Mr. Pirzada lived in a room in a graduate dormitory, and did not own a proper stove or a television set. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z If only they had made different choices, they’re told sternly, they wouldn’t be sitting in a jail cell; they’d be graduating from college. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Buddy told me Will was a third-year man and had to deliver eight babies before he could graduate. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Lott finally had to tell us that it was best for us to try and take classes from other professors more to be exposed to other ways of teaching graduate material.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “And then what? After you graduate? Join the Marines like Matt?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The choir was summoned and sang a modern arrangement of “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” with new words pertaining to graduates seeking their place in the world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z On January 1 all horses graduate to the next age class even if their birthdays fall months later. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z After graduating from Troy Female Seminary in 1832, Elizabeth returned home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Claytor had taken an honors math degree from Howard University in 1929 and, like Dorothy Vaughan, had received an offer to join the inaugural class of the school’s math graduate program. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Only 41 percent of low-income students entering a four- year college managed to graduate within five years, the U.S. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Since he was only a high-school graduate, many people in Coalwood—and in the union and the steel company that owned us too—thought my father was not qualified. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Black professionals constituted the bulk of the residents, many of them graduates of the universities that sat on its borders, Loyola College and Morgan State University. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z As soon as I graduate, I begin to manage the store. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Lawrence exploited to the limit the free labor of graduate students, an important key to low-cost operation of the enormous piece of capital equipment he was erecting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Constrained by hard-learned manners I couldn’t look behind me, but to my left and right the proud graduating class of 1940 had dropped their heads. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When I graduated, I stayed on at Edwards Air Force Base, and was assigned to the Fighter Test section. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t know him at all, he had been graduated before I had entered, but apparently most of the present members of the senior class remembered him well. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Mom’s been telling people I came out here to celebrate graduating. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He said I’d been educated according to a rigorous program designed by my mother, who’d made sure I met all the requirements to graduate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As he turned the corner and looked at the dozens of folding chairs where the graduates were sitting, his mind wandered to the people who weren’t there. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Maybe I could graduate from college and get a professional job. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When they both graduated from high school, Kira returned to the States, moved in with Morrow, and became one of Gregarious Games’ first employees. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When I graduated, I had a choice to become either an Army or an Air Force officer. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yessir. Most likely’ll keep doing that after I graduate. In the last few years, business has kind of slowed down, so I’m one of the only employees left.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He graduated in June 1884 with a lackluster record and set out to find “some favorable location” in which to launch a practice. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Travis and I were going to get a place together and be roommates after we graduated,” Dill said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He’d graduated with honors, had come to Salem and studied medicine; then he had decided to open his apothecary shop. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the graduates were left out of the general bustle. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'd left for school already. I'd just graduated the day before, and I was going to pick up my diploma and say good-bye to people." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Not when he finally found a high school, his fourth, that let him graduate instead of kicking him out for drinking and fighting and chronic truancy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But I own enough of this slop already to embalm all of the girls in my high school graduating class, who must need it by now as much as I do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Will you come back to visit me again? I get out of here in June. Maybe I can come see you graduate. We can start over. It’s not too late for us.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Girls High was way ahead of Suffolk High and I never would’ve graduated on time, so after the school year ended I returned to Virginia to finish high school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My family had had to borrow the money for the suit in which I graduated from the ninth grade. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z This explains almost everything—her faraway look, the hotel key, the underwear, the reason she never graduated from community college. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Throughout college and graduate school, I thought of myself as an orthodox Catholic. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the Augurs have demanded that all students—even graduates—return to Blackcliff to serve as witnesses to the Trials. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Ekman was then a young psychologist just out of graduate school, and he was interested in studying faces. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I was about to drink from the rain-catcher pouch slung across my shoulder when my eyes fell upon the graduated drinking beakers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I graduate from university, and discover that there’s nothing much I can do with my degree. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "They granted me a deferment until I graduate. But I must still serve six months in the Reich Labor Service." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He assesses them with his shrewd, twinkly, ironic little eyes and calls them “sir,” as if they’re his graduate students. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When the ceremony is over, we throw our caps in the air, and we are officially graduated from college, the senior class of Brandeis University in the city of Waltham, Massachusetts. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But at Truman, somewhere close to half the students take at least one theater class before graduating, and those most keenly interested in theater take the whole progression. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In May he graduated from the architecture program at Columbia. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In 1952, Howard University had had only two female engineering graduates in its history. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z While serving at a base in the Southwest, he began collecting arrowheads, a hobby that ultimately led to his abandoning geology and coming to the University of Arizona as a graduate student in archaeology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z With two Manchester graduate assistants, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, he set about finding one, using alpha particles as his tools. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In addition to celebrating the year's graduates, the school, like many colleges, recognizes special people by awarding them with honorary doctorates. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally challenged in the classroom and on the water, he excelled in both areas, and when he graduated in 1926, Washington quickly hired him as the freshman crew coach, and then as head coach. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I have more than enough credits to graduate already. I have more than enough money.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The idea is to have the Freedom Writers be a “case study” for the graduate students, and in exchange, my grad students will help mentor them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “We teachers don’t like them any more than you do. But you’re required to pass the test in order to graduate next year.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I was finally out of high school, so the “no boys until you graduate” rule from my parents had been lifted. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z After two years of study—the graduates of three-week and six-week courses were more admired by the peasants for learning at such wondrous speeds—my mother returned to her home village a doctor. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She obtained her bachelor’s degree at Columbia in 2003 and began graduate work in cybernetics. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z On June 20, 1921, soon after she began her lessons, Marian graduated from the South Philadelphia High School for Girls. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z "Now, for God's sake," he said, handing me the graduate, "be careful and try to do the job right. And if you don't know what to do, ask somebody. I'll be in my office." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Craig said that he didn’t want to go to some stupid high school dance since he had already graduated. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Years later he would ask Leo Nedelsky, one of his Berkeley graduate assistants, to substitute for him in delivering a lecture. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I encourage the graduating class to move forward in their journey throughout high school and even college...” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Bobby is smart, too, though not as academic as his older sister, a high school valedictorian and the rare Truman graduate to advance to an elite university. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I don’t want to go on to graduate work, I don’t want to teach high school or be a curator's flunky in a museum. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I watched him empty the graduate back into the tank and noted carefully when he went to another marked SKA-3-69-T-Y and refilled it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "I don't know, sir . . . I mean. Well, I don't want to start by asking a lot of stupid questions, but do you know what's in this graduate?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert dove deep into chemistry and physics in high school, graduated from Harvard University in 1925, then earned advanced degrees at top universities in Britain and Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re less than a half mile from the National Institutes of Health, and my zip code has one of the highest concentrations of graduate degrees per capita in the United States. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Herbie planned to go to graduate school, but had reasoned upon graduation that he ought to take a year off and see the world. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Paralleling my mom’s insistence that I attend Riverdale because John F. Kennedy had once gone to school there, she was won over to Valley Forge when she heard that General Norman Schwarzkopf was a graduate. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z "I didn't graduate from high school," said Alfred. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Slopper, not having graduated to full Hunter status, carried a sharpened stick. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The Rad Lab was starting to operate on an industrial scale, with graduate students working in shifts to keep the cyclotron running round the clock. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When he graduated, his name stayed behind, and from then on the close-up camera and its operator were a unit called Chico. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z This suggestion is strongly supported by recent studies by Dr. Wallace and a graduate student, Richard F. Bernard, who found high concentrations of DDT in robins on the Michigan State University campus. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In 1957, I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s nothing about any of my report cards since sixth grade that have my parents expecting to find me graduating from an Ivy League school. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “I just graduated three days ago, Mamma. Can’t I have this week to relax and be lazy?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “To graduating, and to a wonderful dinner,” she said, raising her glass of Coke. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z In my graduating class from public school there were only eight people, and in Cordelia’s there were four. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The families of graduates were spread out across the bleachers, and I ran back and forth across the basketball court a couple times before I spotted Mom and Dad about halfway up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z And all of this with some high schooler she hadn’t seen since she graduated. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Students who catch “senioritis” have been known to develop serious complications and never graduate. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At my next supervision, Professor Steinberg said that when I applied for graduate school, he would make sure I was accepted to whatever institution I chose. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As it happened, J. T. was a college graduate himself, a business major. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It was almost as if I’d graduated from the survival course that Timothy had been putting me through since we had landed on the cay. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z After graduating I went back to my old job in Fighter Test, and waited until the Space Agency decided they needed some more astronauts. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was graduating in a month, and then he would work with Josiah and Robert. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I graduated knowing so much more about myself and my history. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z And after he graduated, he went to night school and he came out. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He carried a single volume for the journey, a hardbound collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, which his grandfather had given him when he’d graduated from class twelve. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In 1934 Marina graduated from the air navigation department of the Leningrad Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I was a few years out of school and beginning to think I ought to do some graduate study, though in what I didn’t know. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But Carver High School said it wouldn’t graduate any student who had hair on his face. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was where she’d lived after graduating from Brown, she explains. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Von Tschermak had been a graduate student at Halle and in Ghent, where, working on pea hybrids, he had also observed hereditary traits moving independently and discretely, like particles, across generations of hybrids. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Lawrence went into business for himself, opening a convenience store in the basement of an old townhouse; Sonny had graduated from high school, joined the air force, and grown into a handsome ladies’ man. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He was studying mechanical engineering, set to graduate near the top of his class, and soon after would start a PhD at Purdue. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Thanks to white obstructionism, and bolstered by the black upper classes jealously guarding their segregated domains, North Carolina preserved its lily-white campuses until 1951, when UNC finally admitted five black graduate students. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I know almost everyone who graduated from Perkins while I was there,” she said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The brokers wait eagerly for defectors to graduate from the settlement center and begin receiving monthly stipends from the government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When Adam graduated from high school last spring and moved out of his parents’ place and into the House of Rock, I hadn’t expected much to change. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether or not he graduated from high school wouldn’t mean a whole heck of a lot. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Then, I’ll probably go to Sam and Patrick’s to celebrate their graduating. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z After receiving his bachelor’s degree, Ernest moved on to graduate study at the University of Minnesota, where Merle Tuve was already enrolled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That summer of 1983, I graduated from high school at the age of twenty, by far the oldest senior tossing his mortarboard on the football field that day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Tim hadn’t been on her father’s staff as long as the others, but he was smart and perceptive, which is why her father’s chief of staff hired him right out of graduate school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Mother constantly reminded him that if he’d finish just one more course, he could graduate from college and have a professional job that paid more. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were about twenty people in the room, most of them professors or graduate students. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I wonder what will happen to my sister when her boyfriend graduates from law school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s also the second reason Michigan Law School couldn’t find a difference between its affirmative action graduates and the rest of its alumni. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Terman wrote his recruits letters of recommendation for jobs and graduate school applications. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Meanwhile she graduated from ba-ton twirler to song girl, a much more prestigious position in those days. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z We talk about when we were little, we tell stories, talk about the things we wanna do when we graduate. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Evangelicals are now increasingly likely to be college graduates and in the top income brackets. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It’s just her name and the year she graduated etched into a brass rectangle glued to a dark slab of wood. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Except for Ms. G., I don’t know a single female who’s graduated from high school, let alone gone to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z After the summer session, Katherine decided to leave WVU’s graduate program for a life as a full-time wife and mother, the call of domestic life winning out over career ambition. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “It’s taking you the longest time to graduate,” protested Sissy good-naturedly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He graduated valedictorian from Jefferson Academy and got full scholarship offers from two Ivy League schools. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “You tough enough to keep me from graduating?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z I graduated from high school when I was seventeen, and by that point life at home had become toxic because of my stepfather. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “No—I guess he won’t,” I agreed, realizing at the same time that Digger would miss the ceremony this afternoon, the one where we graduated from middle school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “What are you going to do after you graduate?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The seminar will have seventy-five graduate students who will each be paired up with two Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I haven’t graduated from the track yet because even though I’ve been running every day for over two weeks now, Mom’s not allowing me to run streets for a while. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z He’d graduated from foot soldier and now had other people working for him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Their future rode heavily on their shoulders, and blinded them to the collective joy that had pervaded the lives of the boys and girls in the grammar school graduating class. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Not long after he graduated, the university was closed temporarily and its scholars dispersed to avoid the plague. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z We marched up the middle of the aisle, banked on both sides by rows of seats reserved for our graduating class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Many of them tutored kids in math and science, something that Mary had done since graduating from college. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She enjoyed the secondhand education she got from typing his graduate school papers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z After graduating from Berkeley, Joy cofounded the Silicon Valley firm Sun Microsystems, which was one of the most critical players in the computer revolution. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He’d graduated from a public high school in the city and worked summers as a lifeguard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When both of them graduate, I would like to go back to México to be with them. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z When she graduated, the family felt that they could not afford to send her on to high school. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z But I lived in a “bed sit” in a house with some Oxford graduate students—and so I got to know many other students. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z A study indicates that whether or not a department has a mathematics or a statistics requirement is the most important single determinant of where a woman will attend graduate school to study political science. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Days after he graduated from university, bloated with knowledge about America, he applied for a visa at the American embassy in Lagos. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The goals: go to class, get your grades up, graduate, stay out of jail, survive. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Gerhard graduates from training in the signal corps and is sent to officer training school in Warsaw. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He just wants to graduate and go to college now. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I knew they were talking about me, because I was the only person from my graduating class—Black or white—going to Duke University in the fall. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z When the day came that my class graduated and, for the most part, moved on to college, I would be turned out into the world. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z |
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