My second school, I got wait-listed, and my third school, I got put into - at the University of Texas, it's called the coordinated application program where you go to a satellite school for a year, and then you transfer in.
And my ignorance of the financial consequences led me to reject my second-choice school that called to offer me more financial aid (in the form of grants, not loans, I assume) after I decided to attend my first-choice school but before formally accepting.
"I tried playing trumpet in my high-school marching band but I was soon demoted to ticket-taker at football games, " he said.
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My grade-school principal, George Schumacher, and I "stole" my dad's Ford station wagon from our house in St.
Ms. DICKINSON: Does your school - my daughter's school does something I think is really cool.
While I was slinking into my late teens, the playlist of that low-budget station felt like it was stuck in my middle-school years.
In my B-School, there were always amazingly talented executives coming in to give talks on business and life.
"Japan was my B-school, " says Chaudhary, who learned Japanese to be able to negotiate better and order vegetarian food.
On Saturday I hooked up a scanner to my computer so I could take some of my old-school drawings and add digital effects.
My dad refused to talk to me or co-sign my school loan papers for college.
From my excellent drama-school teacher in London in 1970, I learned two things about speaking Shakespeare that I still practice.
During my recent law-school studies, I took advantage of four near-full-time internships.
"My perception in the school-age range and pre-school-age range was that how the at-home parent is doing is most predictive of how the child is coping, " Davis said.
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Every day, I mean, we have - not just the instructors in my school, but other city colleges of Chicago that - they feel that it's not restricted opportunity.
When my then-second-grade son came home from school one day upset with his teacher I asked him why.
My grade school buddy Steven Lee -- kind, funny and generous -- was leaving his birthday party and was caught in the crossfire of two gangs.
How it affected us on a, kind of, more human and more emotional level, that's difficult to quantify, but I remember when I - in my school, we had a French teacher who was actually an English woman.
For one thing, it is about a ten-minute walk from her house to my daughter's school, which is 50% African-American.
The book was (and surely still is) required reading at my all-boys Catholic high school.
One of my favorite observations from that era came from the head of my daughter's pre-school.
Having embarked on my tax lawyer career in 1979, it was my first major post-law school tax bill.
At my oldest son's school fund-raiser we won a trip to Medieval Times.
Plenty of my school fellows did just OK in high school, went to second-rank universities, where they majored in having a good time, crammed for the LSAT (law school test) and squeezed into second-rank law schools or business schools.
My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work.
Carpe Diem Collegiate Middle and High School, one of my favorite blended-learning models, has no physical education class.
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My favorite example in school of the short-comings of GDP (GNP then) was provided by the question what happens if a man marries his maid.
Guiding us with his machete, he pointed out tiny owls, arachnids that could piggy-back my kids to school, bizarre animals that only have names in the lingua franca.
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And of course, I want to thank all the students from the Lincoln Multicultural Middle School -- where are my students? (Applause.) Thank you all for joining us.
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As a child she was both a stay-at-home-mom (until my three siblings and I were all in school) and a working mom (an over-committed special education teacher).
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