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" ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business. "

Robert Sternberg

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

" After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count. "

" After graduation from high school, I attended the university entrance examination, and fortunately, I was accepted by the Department of Pharmacy and became a student at the Medical School of Peking University. "

" After graduation, I moved to Los Angeles to do more theater, not realizing there is very little theater in L.A. It was a lucky mistake, though, because after just 2 1/2 months of waiting tables, my TV and film career really took off. "

Nicholas Gonzalez

" 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. "

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

" After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, primary education was made free. We are now thinking to make education in the public sector free up to graduation level. We are also thinking of providing a light meal at primary and secondary schools in order to increase the student retention level. "

" A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials. "

" 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. "

" At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers. "

" Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. "

Marian Wright Edelman

" Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up. "

" College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. "

" Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. "

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

" Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me. "

" Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics. "

" Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. "

" Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University. "

Harold E. Varmus

" For good nurture and education implant good constitutions. "

" 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

" God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. "

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

Bruce Eric Kaplan

" I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed. "

" I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan. "

Susumu Tonegawa

" I did get a degree in special education. "

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