Back when I left to move into my own first place, a tiny graduate-student apartment, I bought exactly three pieces of furniture: a futon, a chair and a desk.
My husband had attended his 30th and highly recommended the experience, but he went to prep school in Michigan and had a tiny graduating class in comparison to our large baby boomer-inflated public school.
So here I am, the graduate Tiny Tim of 2011, wishing that this Christmas Dancer, Prancer and Blitzen deliver a sparkling new career for me to unwrap.
The tiny pool of graduates that AXA takes on each year is an indication of the level of competition for each place on its scheme, and it's not the only one so highly sought after.
And an overall grid by the Korean-born artist Do-Ho Suh contains thousands of tiny portrait of graduates from his high school, intended to comment on the sense of "herd" strength that is conferred by crowdhood while at the same time it suppresses individuality.
There's Tamara's rival, Tania Singh, "an Oxford graduate with tiny fairy features and the incandescent ambition of a young Bonaparte," who is overseeing an upstart Web operation at The Monitor.
And why does slogging through a new app's voluminous terms of service or figuring out how to activate a site's privacy control settings sometimes feel as if it requires a graduate degree in tiny print?
Costar Tim Daly, who plays Elizabeth's hunky religion professor husband — he quotes Thomas Aquinas in bed — also happens to be a graduate of the tiny academy.
After four years of nervous breakdowns, crying over frayed lamé, and fighting peers over tiny scraps of fabric, the graduating class of Parsons 2013 BFA program showcased their designs at the school's annual fashion show.
Chisholm first observed the vesicles in 2008 when one of her graduate students, Anne Thompson, spotted tiny buds on the surface of Prochlorococcus under an electron microscope.
