Graduate School

A graduate-school alumnus who only recently, and quite publicly, was able to pay off his debts, Obama proposed refiguring loan programs so that students would accrue interest even while they're enrolled. ❋ Sam Stein (2011)

In a similar study, students who received the same coaching before taking graduate-school entrance exams posted higher scores on a mock test in the lab and also on the actual exam three months later, compared with controls, according to a study co-authored by Dr. Mendes and published last year in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. ❋ Sue Shellenbarger (2012)

He recalls feeling flummoxed at dinner with his wife and her graduate-school friends. ❋ Elizabeth Bernstein (2012)

Some parents already may have helped one child considerably more than another during his or her lifetime, such as paying for a pricey graduate-school education or providing money for a down payment for a house. ❋ Rachel Emma Silverman (2011)

"If you keep a beard, my heart will automatically draw toward you because you'll be fulfilling a sunnah," said a man, who hardly knew me, at the Columbia University prayer room that I frequented during my undergrad and graduate-school days. ❋ Fahad Faruqui (2011)

To be hired, according to the school's Web site, you need to be able to prove you have "expert subject-area knowledge," present a "portfolio of achievement of past students" and score above 90 percent on the verbal section of a graduate-school entrance test. ❋ Leonie Haimson (2011)

If a child goes to college but graduates without wiping out a 529 account, you can always let the remaining money sit for possible graduate-school expenses. ❋ Georgette Jasen (2012)

The association estimates the initiative would raise more than $140 million each year to pay for health insurance for low-income children and adults, graduate-school medical education and reimbursement to hospitals that care for the poor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More Chinese students are attending U.S. graduate schools, a study by a U.S. graduate-school industry group shows. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Among graduate-school students, in 2008 there were 125,000 African-American women but only 58,000 African-American men. ❋ Ralph Richard Banks (2011)

It was an extraordinarily influential book for my generation of students ... but we learned not as much from it - it was, as I said, almost unreadable - as from a number of explanatory articles that appeared on all our graduate-school reading lists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

High-school, college and graduate-school teachers and students are often released because they will miss classes. ❋ Jennifer Waters (2011)

In some ways, Mr. Shirakawa runs the central bank like the intense graduate-school experiences of his youth. ❋ Jon Hilsenrath (2011)

Both grew up on Long Island and wrote about stock markets, Mr. Niederauer in a middle-school paper and Mr. Greifeld in a graduate-school thesis at New York University. ❋ Aaron Lucchetti (2011)

A few young graduate-school types congregated around Christian Sinderman, the hot-shot political consultant who has been advising Fitzgibbon on his campaign moves (“We have a strong personal relationship and I wanted to work with a consultant who I trusted to tell me the truth,” said Fitzgibbon). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thanks to a thriving economy at home, an increasing number of Chinese students are attending U.S. graduate schools, according to a study to be released on Tuesday by a graduate-school industry group. ❋ Melissa Korn (2011)

The demand is spawning a slew of new programs - from discount graduate-school tuition for recently laid-off alums of St. John's University to special alumni hours at the Farmingdale State career center. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The administration casts those cuts as helping to maintain the regular school-year Pell Grants at their current $5,500 level, by finding reductions in the summer and graduate-school portions. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Lobocuda: "Man didn't someone tell me you were in prison [back then]?" Tacobooco: "Nope...was in graduate school back then." Lobocuda: "[Ah ok], that's why I simultaneously remember you [smelling] horrible then but also that I never saw you...strange..." ❋ Uncle Fuckbucket (2018)

[High school graduation] is [the day] where your life takes a huge turn, both for the better and the [worse]. ❋ Unmanipulable (2018)

Alyssa: Hey guys! Do you want to go to [the middle school] [graduation] dance?! Taylor: Nah it looks LAME. Slutty Girl: C'mon bitches, I [wana] go!!!! ❋ Minty_fresh:) (2010)