Instead of graduating with their friends, most of them are now strangers in new communities.
Instead of graduating he left in 1955 for New York, where he soon joined the local jazz scene.
Instead of graduating into the company like the other girls, however, Guy is relegated to the job of seamstress.
In high school he was scheduled to receive a certificate of achievement instead of graduating with a diploma.
Gradually, his political work took the place of formal studies, and instead of graduating, he spent several years in the Soviet Union.
Instead of graduating a semester early, she will now finish high school a year early, and in the top 10percentt of her class, she said.
Instead of graduating, they "level up".
"If I didn't have Gates, I'm sure I would've entered the workforce instead of graduate school," he says.
But on balance, Long sees working with undergraduate students, instead of graduate students and postdocs, as an advantage: "Because their lives aren't dependent on it if a project fails, we can do all kinds of crazy stuff here.
Such is the case, for example, with Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak, two former University of Waterloo students who worked on self-driving technologies together in college and formed their now venture-backed, self-driving truck company, Embark, instead of graduating.
