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" I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation. "

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" My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. "

George Weinberg

" After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month. "

" The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. "

" At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does. "

" I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer. "

James Green Somerville

" 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. "

Sheryl Sandberg

" 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. "

Gerald Chertavian

" Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. "

" I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. "

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" I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college. "

" 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. "

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" After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression. "

" I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. "

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" I have actually five honorary degrees. "

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" I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career. "