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.
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.
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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"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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During my recent law-school studies, I took advantage of four near-full-time internships.
On Saturday I hooked up a scanner to my computer so I could take some of my old-school drawings and add digital effects.
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.
My dad refused to talk to me or co-sign my school loan papers for college.
My grade-school principal, George Schumacher, and I "stole" my dad's Ford station wagon from our house in St.
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.
From my excellent drama-school teacher in London in 1970, I learned two things about speaking Shakespeare that I still practice.
"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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For one thing, it is about a ten-minute walk from her house to my daughter's school, which is 50% African-American.
Ms. DICKINSON: Does your school - my daughter's school does something I think is really cool.
My grade school buddy Steven Lee -- kind, funny and generous -- was leaving his birthday party and was caught in the crossfire of two gangs.
When my then-second-grade son came home from school one day upset with his teacher I asked him why.
There were three all-night cafeterias in Harvard Square the year I arrived for law school--1964--and I can still name them all (my favorite was Albiani's).
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.
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.
The book was (and surely still is) required reading at my all-boys Catholic high school.
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.
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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