After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.
I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.
I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.
I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school,...
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree...
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.
I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
