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" Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force. "

Dennis L. McKiernan

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" A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. "

" The federal government requires that its loans be paid back within 10 years of graduation, and Harvard has pegged its loans to the same 10-year timetable. Yet despite Harvard's low default rate, the idea of years of loan debt is daunting for some students even before it's time to pay back. "

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" 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. "

" The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. "

" Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. "

" I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five, I think, but I went to Germany when I was 17 to have a little adventure after graduation. "

" For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early. "

Alexa Von Tobel

" I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree. "

" Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate. "

" When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school. "

" 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. "

" I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation. "

Maureen Forrester

" All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since. "

" It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree. "

" I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts. "

" What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment. "

Bruce Eric Kaplan

" I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player. "

" I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day. "

" Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games. "

" I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. "

" In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. "

" I left for New York three days after graduation. "

" Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness. "

Bruce Eric Kaplan

" Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia. "

" I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. "

" When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at. "

" When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. "

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

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