Tucker Halpern

I dedicated most of my life to basketball, and that was my plan until my junior year of college when I got ill and was bed-ridden for eight months. In those months, I wanted to be productive, and I taught myself how to produce music on my computer. When I went back to school, I started taking all my classes in music and DJing a lot.

American Athlete

Noelle Stevenson

I was a junior at school, and I had just taken my first comics class, and we were doing an exercise for this other class where we had to create our own characters,and 'Nimona' just kind of came out of that. I decided that I liked her so much that I wanted to do a comic with her.

American Artist

Georg Brandes

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

Danish Critic

Josh Groban

I did improv in junior high school. Figuring out my comedic timing helped my confidence in talking to the bullies and talking to people in class. If I could make them laugh, then I was in; I was OK.

American Musician

Josh Allen

I had to decide if I was going to try a junior college or walk on somewhere. I even thought about changing sports. But I eventually decided that football was my passion.

Geeta Phogat

Seeing my name in the newspapers after winning the national junior championship motivated me to win more medals and I have never looked back since then.

American Wrestler

Kelly Olynyk

I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.

Canadian Athlete

Ryan Howard

I was perceived to be a first- to third-rounder. I kind of had a tough junior year and fell to the fifth round. At that time, it was motivational.

Stephen Furst

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.

American Actor

Shannon Bream

Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.

American Journalist

Highlights relative age in a family; 'junior' indicates a younger member.

Family Hierarchy

In casual settings, 'junior' can affectionately refer to someone younger.

Informal

In a job title, 'junior' denotes a lower-level or beginning professional role.

Workplace Titles

Refers to rank, not age. A 'junior' employee might be older than others.

Not Necessarily Young

Shows someone is younger when directly compared to a specific group.

Compare to Peers

When following a name, 'Junior' is a formal part of someone's name.

Formal Designation

Used only for sons sharing the exact same name as their fathers.

Generational Suffix

Refers to middle school in the U.S., typically grades 7-9.

Specific School Level

Used in the American education system; unfamiliar in other countries.

U.S. Education Term

 out and sharing their own stories of accepting their introversion for the first time and those stories changed the course of my life so I'm going to tell you all about that but first I want to share just a few of these stories ok um high school junior in Kansas who was desperately trying to twist herself into a pretzel trying to be a leader but she

Blueprint for a quiet...

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2016 Breakthrough Junior...

 So let's go back to some of those people I talked about earlier. Now, they're all people we've investigated, and they're all people who couldn't do what they do alone. Take Obiang junior. Well, he didn't end up with high-end art and luxury houses without help. He did business with global banks.

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 In my junior year, my computer graphics professor showed us these wonderful short films. It was the first computer animation any of us had ever seen. I watched these films in wonder, transfixed, fireworks going off in my head, thinking, "That is what I want to do with my life."

The magic ingredient...

 I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate. Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure,

Grit: the power of...

 I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate. Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic

The strongest predictor...

 identify with and so you see this in junior high a lot those kids they'll work all summer long kill themselves so that they can afford one pair of designer jeans so along about September they can stride in and go I'm important

Creative houses from...

 I'm like a junior varsity cheerleader sometimes -- for swearing, awkward silences, and very simple rhyme schemes. Right now, talking to you, I'm not even really a guy. I'm a monkey -- blowing kisses

A story of mixed...

 on her tail so does her cow come on parents don't you wish you could get this kind of cooperation of all the skills that mom has to teach junior the most important one is how to find

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 at the moment she is particularly interested in a 15 year old junior silverback marimbo an ape at a crossroads in his life marimbo is really at that age where he needs to start

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