graduation

Tassels turn, caps fly, and suddenly the map of your entire life looks entirely unwritten. Whether you are stepping away from a lecture hall or stumbling into an unexpected calling, these moments of transition demand voices that capture both the terror and the thrill of what comes next. Within this collection, you will find reflections that strip away the pomp and circumstance to examine the grit, the uncertainty, and the quiet lessons left behind by years of hard work. Take your time wandering through these perspectives, and see if you can find the right words to send you off into your own next great unknown.

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

— Elbert Hubbardgraduation

"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened."

— Ted Nelsongraduation

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

— Marian Wright Edelmangraduation

"I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information."

— Irvine Welshgraduation

"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree."

— John F. Kennedygraduation

"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

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"My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs."

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"My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs."

"You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy."

"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."

"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."

"I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do."

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

"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."

"The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."

"When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential."

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

"I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion."

"I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs."

"Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals."

"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."

"Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together."

"If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research."

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

"I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life."

"I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer."

"North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?"

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

"Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class."

"One half who graduate from college never read another book."

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

"I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22."

"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 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."

"I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun."

"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."

"In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls."

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