“When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.” MenYearsEffortClassCasesLowsTrainingMen And WomenProgramAgencyOfficersGraduatesCiaRebuildingBest EffortRecruitIntelligence AgenciesClandestineTraining ProgramsGraduating Class Author:George Tenet
“I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.” WorstStudentsDegreesMajorsProgramGraduates Author:William Shatner
“Harvard graduates just cannot shake the idea that they know better than everyone else what's best for us and that they're capable of running a mammoth, unwieldy government program providing each one of us with the precise health insurance we need, at a good price, with no waste or fraud. Trust them, they worked it all out on paper their junior year.” KnowsNeedsYearsIdeasGovernmentRunningWastePaperCapableProgramShakesFraudGraduatesProvidingPreciseJuniorsHarvardGovernment ProgramsJunior Year Author:Ann Coulter
“I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.” FilmTeachStudentsProjectsProgramGraduatesUclaCameosUsc Author:James Franco
“If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going to win that award, or are you going to get into this graduate program, you're blocking the light, and the light is that guidance and love we get when we open up our hearts and are guided by our higher selves, or God, or the Buddha Lupe [Buddha and the Virgin of Guadalupe fused together, as they are in the tattoo on Sandra's right arm], or whatever you believe in, or love.” IfsThinkingWritingBelieveHeartSelfLightTogetherWinningArmsHigherProgramAnd LoveBlockGuidanceGradesAwardsGraduatesTattooVirginsHigher SelfGuadalupe Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.” PeopleSaidAttentionFictionProgramClaimsPaidGenreGraduates Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at Columbia who were going into writing and filmmaking and everything, I said, "When I tried to think of what to say, the only subject I thought was appropriate for people doing what you're going to do is rejection." That's what it's all about.” PeopleThinkingGivingWritingLittlesSaidSubjectsProgramRejectionAppropriateGraduatesFilmmakingNew YorkersColumbiaMbaMba Programs Author:Kevin Sessums
“When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because though I had some vague ambition of becoming a writer and I was trying to write poems and essays and stories, I didn't feel like I was far enough along to submit work to some place and have it judged.” FeelsWritingTryingEnoughStoriesCreativeBecomingAmbitionProgramJudgedGraduatesSubmitVagueEssaysCreative WritingStanfordPhds Author:Robert Hass
“Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.” IfsChildrenGovernmentAbleSchoolAmericaBlackWhitePoorQualityImagineChildhoodCollegeHigh SchoolProgramUniversalSticksRateGenuineGraduatesLatinoHigh QualityGood EducationEarly ChildhoodGoing To CollegeGraduating High SchoolEarly Childhood Education Author:Barack Obama
“[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.” BigsSchoolInvolvedBandProgramJazzGraduatesManhattanUndergraduateSemester Author:Jon Gordon
“There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.” PeopleYearsSchoolOpportunitySportsClassBandProgramConsistentGraduatesAcademicChorusGraduating Class Author:Josh Turner
“Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge” IfsWould BeFallChallengesImagineSucceedProgramCuteDullGraduatesNo HopeVariablesAdmissionDull Life Author:Robyn Dawes
“If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.” IfsWantShouldPersonsUniverseGrowsRealizingLossGriefProgramGraduates Book:Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living Source: Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living