Sentence examples for mediocre colleges from inspiring English sources

But, late in the novel, Michael, enrolled in an upstate college where his parents have saved up to send him, says that if he and his classmates were not exactly the middle children born at mid-century to middle-class parents and sent from middling, mid-island high schools to mediocre colleges all across the state, they were close enough.

She'd graduated from a mediocre college.

I am a former mediocre college distance runner who completed a couple of degrees in English literature, and those of us who belong to this particular demographic, in addition to a heightened sense of futility and masochism, are often capable of reciting A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" from memory.

It was the fact that they looked like a mediocre college team trying to play against the Yankees.

The dude who just got married has the kind of goatee beard a bassist from an exceptionally mediocre college metal band rocks when he gets his first job in accountancy.

"If you're taking out a ton of debt to attend a mediocre college, take a minute to consider dropping out and enrolling at a nearby community college instead.

They worry in part about how good an education their kids will actually get if they're in over their heads academically, and they worry in part about the effect of a mediocre college performance on their kids' sense of self-confidence.

If our current educational decline on standard measures like reading, math and science, disturbing high school dropout rates and mediocre college completion rates aren't enough of a wake-up call, check out what experts are saying about our apparently diminishing creativity edge.

My less-than-mediocre college basketball career left me still searching for athletic fulfillment: I cycled across America, ran marathons, tried triathlons and studied martial arts until I fell hard for kayaking.

These McMansion bowls pop up and either go into foreclosure or cycle through a host of squatting sponsors miss you, Papajohns.com Bowl who move on when the septic system backs up, while continuing to parade just-this-side-of-mediocre college teams inside half-empty Sun Belt football stadiums.

Bravo's "gallery girls" are unpaid interns at mediocre galleries, recent college grads blowing their trust funds on vaguely artistic pursuits.