Graduates Quotations

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the 60s.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.

I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.

There are college graduates not trained in this; business courses don't always cover the basics of communicating.

West Point graduates love everything that has to do with West Point. As much as it is male-dominated in terms of numbers, there is a great respect for female athletes and the females who go through here.

With the high need and growing demand, lots of money and time is being thrown at a problem, but everyone is chasing after the very few graduates that exist.

Very few graduates have that combination of skills ... many students are shying away from language courses and travelling to places like Indonesia or Malaysia because of the terror warnings.

Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.

Wayne County chose Carnegie Learning because of its focus on teaching critical thinking and problem solving skills in real world scenarios. The State of West Virginia is committed to the 21st Century Skills Partnership to make certain our high school graduates have the skills they need to be successful in the global marketplace, and the implementation of Carnegie Learning's curricula strongly supports this initiative.

But just because a person goes to Harvard doesn't mean he's balanced when he graduates, and just because a dog knows how to obey doesn't mean he's balanced, either.

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

Low interest rates have served as a sort of amnesty for graduates with debt. We haven't seen what the real impact is of much higher levels of borrowing.

Let's give mid-career professionals, academics, and our best college graduates a clearer path to working and excelling in our public schools,

Many of our graduates have gained national and international recognition for their creative excellence. We welcome the support of the Ontario government in giving our local artists a chance to make a huge difference both here and abroad.

She wants to own a dance club in College Station with her brother when she graduates from college.

Older workers, from recent college graduates to senior citizens, have a record of experience that is attractive to employers. And very often, employers are willing to pay extra for that experience.

Mr. and Mrs. Baker were consummate professionals who taught us a lot that we didn't get through our classroom training. Mr. Baker was a father figure to me, and he was an inspiration to a lot of graduates who went on to own their own drugstores in Florida and throughout the nation.

One of our primary goals is to equip students to be organizational leaders who are willing to lead at the local and global levels. Graduates will take leadership roles in the workplace, as well as in their communities and society as a whole.

Nursing is a calling, a dedication to a profession. It's really rewarding to walk in a hospital and see graduates of your class working there.

Obviously, off the court, he's had some issues. He would be the first to say, 'Why? Why did I do that?' But one, his players graduate; two, they learn how to be men; and three, they learn how to contribute in life. Look at all those Indiana graduates contributing to society.

One of the reasons that TSU was selected was because TSU has a track record of producing graduates who have gone on and done well in the intelligence community. This gives us an opportunity to add to our stature in this area and really help the intelligence community diversify the talent pool.

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.

I don't know a whole lot of college graduates who are going to work a $10 temporary job. I know that they have to find people somewhere to grade them, but I would certainly hope that they would find professional readers, not just kids out of college that are looking for something to do.

Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.

I, for one, would not be afraid to invite more foreign professors. It is vital for us to modernize education so that our university graduates are every bit as good as Harvard or Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni.

For students, graduates and parents who want to secure major savings, procrastination is just not an option ? it's time to act now. Borrowers have three months to take advantage of this unique opportunity and save potentially thousands of dollars.

He takes hundreds of recent law graduates at their most vulnerable, dependent state and guides them, soothes them, suffers with them, flatters them, advises them, exhorts them, humors them and holds their hands over the last hurdle before they enter the practice of law.

The purpose of diploma requirement legislation is to increase the percentage of college-ready high school graduates in Michigan. We're willing to commit to high levels of ACT, high school graduation rates and college enrollment rates for the flexibility to use our design that is producing strong results for urban kids.

We think having a community college next to our new high school could be a real asset to our graduates and our current students.

The raised interest rate goes into effect on July 1. People graduating prior to that date should absolutely apply for consolidation under the current lower interest rate. That could save recent graduates lots of money in the long run.

I think we have a PR issue, in that people do not think the utility industry has great significant technical challenges. College graduates look at us and see poles and wires, and don't realize there are things like automation, computer control and sophisticated asset management systems out there.

I was a little disappointed in that (Big East) rule. We've had plenty of cases on the team now, and in the past, where a guy was a couple points short on a test. Yet he comes here and graduates and has a great career and does a great job representing the program.

Our high school graduates must be prepared to go to work or to college. Our goal is to make Ohioans more employable whenever they leave school.

Our goal is that we will have 18 graduates in December 2006 and they will stay in the community.

Overall, the U.S. labor market is off to a very solid start in 2006 as strong business fundamentals continue to boost employer demand for workers, creating more job opportunities and driving the unemployment rate down to well below 5 percent. Demand for workers in the U.S. remains elevated at the outset of the year, while the online migration of help-wanted advertising continues at a rapid pace. The Index's findings for February clearly indicate greater confidence among employers throughout much of the country, largely due to the underlying strength of the economy. This is encouraging news for job seekers and bodes well for this year's class of college graduates as they begin their search for employment.

Overall, 75 percent of the graduates in 1997, 1998 and 1999 ended up earning their degree from a Maine institution.

Our medical school puts the highest percentage of graduates into pediatrics and family practice in the country.

Some of the workers that ended up working there were graduates of those programs.

That allows our graduates to hit the ground running.

Master Gardeners graduates become part of Texas Cooperative Extension as volunteers, and even after they complete their classroom instruction and 50 hours of volunteer work, they must do 12 hours of volunteer work every year to maintain their certified Master Gardener status.

The annual auction is the only fundraiser we have. Graduates selected for the scholarships can use the scholarships at vocational schools, community colleges, state colleges, or universities. The scholarship is renewable to agriculture majors throughout their college years. Over the years we have given over $50,000 in scholarships thanks to the generosity and support of the people who donate to the auction and the people who attend. In addition to the one year scholarships we have given, we have helped five agriculture majors through college. The bottom line is all about helping the kids.

Most graduates on that level of income will be spending more than that on CDs each week,

We are the only flagship state institution that is serving a Hispanic population and also is a major research institution. Even at the business school there is a particular emphasis on the management of technology. We have a program in science, engineering, and business that will guide graduates on how to do a start-up properly.

We have the opposite problem at Ford Motor Company. Right now, we have approximately 700 technician graduates who have been trained through our technical career entry programs and are now looking for employment.

Today this country is producing more first rate business graduates than elsewhere in the world,

We are delighted that President Clinton has agreed to address our convocation this spring. As our graduates begin their careers in public service, it is fitting that they gain the perspective of someone who has himself had such a long, distinguished public career.

We don't have high school graduates teaching our kids.

We are looking for more university partners in Iowa City to provide our graduates with more options.

Today's college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but ignore IM, it's like locking the doors but leaving your windows open. Your security initiatives have to blanket both IM and email.

The demand for these graduates is phenomenal. Management is really scrambling for people who know business and technology.

I'll never graduate from collagen.

Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.

I didn't drop out of school, I placed out of it. I took correspondence courses and ended up graduating early. I did everything I could to get the hell out of there.

BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles.

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.

We said that there was a shortage, given the numbers of graduates that are coming out - 1600 this year and increasing, ... Most graduates want to be admitted. There was a need for another course.

We all know that basketball was a big part of Kristin's college experience, but that her lifelong goal is becoming a doctor. She graduates this spring, and getting her bachelor's degree at Arkansas in only three years is a great accomplishment.

[A]s a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. [...] Today [...] my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.

We will be offering courses that will enable students who are high school graduates as well as those people who are already in the field, the opportunity to gain skills in emergency management.

What is great about these scholarships is that the education assistance scholarship is open to graduates and undergraduates." ()

We saw the job market for new college graduates drop significantly in 2002, and it has been climbing back since then. This is the third consecutive year in which employers have reported plans to increase the number of new college graduates they hire, and this is the best job market we've seen for new college graduates in the past four years.

As the hiring environment has become increasingly competitive, demand for recent graduates has also risen.

At the end of each episode the most improved driver graduates from the program and leaves. By the end the worst driver remains and he or she is crowned Canada's worst driver.

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Another benefit of this is that it will bring the brightest, most talented college graduates in the country to Memphis. Some of them will choose to stay, but they all will have direct experience with the city and they can be great ambassadors for us. The people they touch are the people we want to attract.

Employers tend to find foreign educated, Mandarin speaking graduates attractive,

I second the motion. His record is spotless. He graduates every kid. He doesn't look at other women. He doesn't smoke.

The state of Ohio has among the highest tuition rates in the country. The number of college graduates has slowed.

The state needs to define these students not as dropouts or graduates but count them as a whole new group. They shouldn't count them against us, they should count them as a separate to be more accurate.

The study only looked at teaching and social working fields, but you can absolutely extrapolate to other fields that aren't in high paying but are important to communities ... We're concerned that overall college graduates with loan debt are getting priced out of those fields.

The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.

The surprisingly weak quantitative literacy ability of many college graduates is troubling. A knowledgeable workforce is vital to cope with the increasing demands of the global marketplace.

Technology is essential to our everyday lives. With graduation around the corner, parents, family and friends can help their graduates gear up for the next stage in life by investing in the right blend of technology products and services.

Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or business.

Companies like Dell succeed because they only hire the best and the brightest. We are proud that these upcoming graduates are prepared to compete for the kind of opportunities being offered by Dell in Oklahoma City.