If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

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.

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.

I woke up on May 15 1991 the day of my Barnard graduation and I said to myself 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

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.

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class which is why I don't often do them.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

I fell in love with theater there and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

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.

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

I was on the yearbook staff so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

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

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

I disagree with a lot of those changes however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

From kindergarten to graduation I went to public schools and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

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.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

We are living in 1937 and our universities I suggest are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization education graduation for a century - for several centuries.