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Then, at a little film school gathering at my friend’s house somewhere in Boyle Heights, I saw a friend from graduate school from across the room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Mr. Schmalhofer is a partner at a venture investment firm and a graduate of Yale College where he won an Ivy League football championship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Jacqueline Griswold, a Johns Hopkins graduate student and the study's first author, tested the idea.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
For international student and graduate visas, Burke said: "We will no longer be adding to the stock of students automatically being able to bring family members over."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
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.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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The latest unemployment reading from August was 4.1% — which is still a relatively low figure from a historical perspective, but it’s a cooler job market than previous years, particularly for recent college graduates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
If software can handle the basic work once given to new graduates, companies have less incentive to hire beginners who need to learn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
A recent government report found that just over 8% of graduates find jobs aligned with their skills.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
It is the opposite story for college graduates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
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.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Moreno was from Orange County and graduated from Chapman University with a degree in broadcast journalism and political science.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
When Tanisha Saunders graduated from college eight years ago, she felt optimistic that she was on her way to achieving an American dream that included homeownership.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Stroke of luck—one of our newest employees recently graduated from Harvard Business School and speaks glowingly of one young professor he knew there: Nitin Nohria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Sarisha Ganesan, 22, graduated from Loughborough University in June and started in a graduate role in marketing last month.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
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.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The graduation ceremony on 16 September will see Matson give a speech to the students graduating alongside him.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Then, just a decade after graduating college, Sharma was hired as chief operating officer of Instacart, helping lead the grocery-delivery giant through the pandemic as well as its 2023 IPO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Teena Singh moved back home to live with her parents in Georgia after graduating from college, despite having a full-time job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Four states — California, Delaware, Colorado and Hawaii — are now mandating that students take a semester-long personal-finance course before graduating.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
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.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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