But after graduating from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada, Mr Fekete moved to London and set up MaxBips, a website where small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) auction their surplus cash to banks.
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But just before graduating from MIT, he says, a military physical showed that he had a heart murmur, disqualifying him.
Excelling in math, he made it to the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois, but left before graduating.
But the 440 graduating seniors were also looking to their recent past.
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Everybody agrees and some of you governors have led the way on early education and the consequences for the prospects of success for our children not only of graduating, but avoiding the criminal justice system.
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Mr Lewis, from Carmarthenshire, had started working in the pits aged 14 but became a teacher after graduating in 1931.
Washington University's Olin School, in contrast, has a less-impressive graduating salary to report but does a terrific job of giving students their money's worth.
Our children are coming out of high school -- in some cases, they're not even graduating high school, but even if they graduate from high school -- ranked lower on math and science scores than many other advanced industrialized countries.
Rhodes has a business degree after graduating from university in 1992 but since then has exclusively been employed as a cricketer.
As corporate responsibility grows in scope across companies, these insights become valuable not only for graduating entrepreneurs and job seekers, but for any professional who considers himself or herself to be an informed careerist.
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Dunn had hoped to become a journalist, but the family was so poor that, after graduating from U.C.
But it turns out we were lucky to be graduating during a time when it was much easier to find jobs.
He has said he had no alternative but to follow a career in the media after graduating with "a very poor law degree".
But he turned down an offer to join Caltex after graduating.
After graduating, he considered getting into management consulting, but he ended up doing product development for a medical device called Natus Medical.
But Prof Muscatelli has instead argued that those who earn more after graduating should contribute more.
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After graduating from high school, Purkayastha enrolled in Manhattan's Baruch College but dropped out during orientation week to focus fulltime on truffles.
After graduating in 2000, Teng took a job as a computer engineer, but quit this past spring to perform her music around the country.
After graduating from the Air Force Academy in 1973, he had a brief but distinguished Air Force career during which he flew the Vietnam-era F-4 Phantom fighter jet.
For the majority of college athletes, such policies do nothing but force them to spend extra time in school when they would be better served graduating on-time or pursuing their professional careers.
After graduating from RADA, she acted in TV, film and radio productions, but then left the UK and headed to New York where she began to write food articles as a way of supplementing her income.
He had joined the service after graduating from high school during the Great Depression and had been discharged in 1941, but re-enlisted after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II.
Since graduating, Ms Allen has managed to secure one year-long contract to date, but that ended in June and she has had to take a job outside the classroom.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Mr. Kahn, 53, worked on Wall Street but departed by what he jokingly described as "mutual" consent.
After graduating from Babson in 2002 she spent five years working in New York in financial services, but eventually found that she missed the close customer relationships she grew up with.
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To all of you who are graduating today, you may not have known this when you started at the GOAL Academy, but you stand at the beginning of a revolution in education, and it is an honor and a privilege for me to be a part of this special day in your lives, and I thank the GOAL Academy for making it possible.
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After graduating from the University of Arizona, he was elected to serve on a school board in Tucson but also travels the country as an inspirational speaker.
But when they launched Chattersource in April 2010, students were sending them emails asking whether the site could help graduating students sell their furniture or returning students to sublet their apartments for the summer.
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