Gerald Chertavian

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.

American Businessman

Maggie Rogers

There were a couple of months when I was approaching graduation where I started to think of graduating from college as the afterlife. Because it's this kind of crazy thing that you always know you're going to finish school inevitably, but nobody ever really tells you what happens afterwards.

American Musician

Gary Cohn

Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.

Karen Fukuhara

Upon graduation, I hit a wall. All of my good friends from UCLA were taking on jobs they were passionate about, and I felt left behind. It took a bit of soul searching, but in the end, I finally had the guts to pursue acting.

American Actress

Sheryl Sandberg

When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.

American Businesswoman

Sal Khan

At a lot of college graduations, you'll hear people say, 'Follow your passions,' and that is important, but no one talks about the stress of not having enough money, the issues of debt, and the issues of work stress.

American Educator

Alexandra Robbins

Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.

American Journalist

Dick Cheney

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

American Vice President

Chase Elliott

There's no guarantees in anything you do. But I hope there are many more weekends I can race in my life, and high school graduation you only do once.

American Driver

Stephanie Ruhle

Graduation is an important day. It is a significant achievement.

Refers to formal events where students wear caps and gowns and receive their degrees.

Academic Celebration

It's a significant life event, often celebrated with family and close friends.

Family Milestone

Symbolizes the completion of a stage of education and the beginning of a new chapter.

End of an Era

Used to describe a continuous change or transition in degrees or stages.

Degree of Change

In art, describes how colors or intensity can change gradually.

Visual Effect

Implies a subtle and often natural transition without abrupt changes.

No Sudden Shifts

Reflects the preciseness in science and measurements on tools or containers.

Measurement Precision

Graduations are designed to be clear and easy to read for accurate measurements.

Ease of Reading

Graduations ensure consistency and standardization in scientific measurements.

Standardized Scales

 When we think about how we're going to make the world a better place, we think education; that's where we put a lot of money. Education is going to give us, not only commercial skills, industrial skills, it's also going to make us better people. You know the kind of thing a commencement address is, and graduation ceremonies, those lyrical claims

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 because of well-intentioned parenting and self-esteem education -- were socialized to believe that we were special little snowflakes -- who were going to go out and save the world. These are three words many of us were raised with. We walk across graduation stages,

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 beginning of the year this novel coronavirus has altered life as we know it there are of course a staggering number of cases and a growing number of deaths but nothing is untouched work school family life milestones like graduations

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 well after graduation life continued on like one big spring break I mean we would go out to bars and party nightly and having bad hair and working out was literally a priority for me at the time as long as we could party chase girls

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 because these programs either don't reach the poorest, and even the ones that do fail to have significant long-term impact. We are working to engage governments to help them to adopt and scale graduation programs themselves,

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 about the realities of today's world. From kindergarten through to graduation. And I mean mandatory. I strongly believe that every young person can be a changemaker. But often they need help knowing where and how to start.

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 It saves lives. We're proud to help flatten the curve, but now we need your help to keep the pandemic from flattening our spirits. Here's how you can It's graduation season for millions of students throughout the world.

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 and what debts you accumulated, you paid off by graduation date. Not anymore. Paul's daughter followed in his footsteps, but with one when she graduated five years ago, it was with a whopping debt.

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 also comes with a team approach, as much how to work in teams as how to lead them, with a dose of humility. Upon graduation, these doctors share their knowledge with nurse's aids, midwives,

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 But Ms. Russ said to me right before graduation, "Victor, I'm so proud of you. I knew you could do it.