graduate school

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He eventually left India for graduate school in the U.S. after deciding he would never be able to earn enough at home to support his parents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

In one of Glover’s favorite pictures, snapped by his wife, he is sitting at his desk in his tan desert flight suit, focused on graduate school work while holding one of his daughters.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

He studied the subject in graduate school, earning a doctorate in statistics, and then took his passion to Wall Street, where what isn’t evident is often key.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Galvan, whose husband was also unemployed after a tech layoff, eventually enrolled in graduate school and currently works part-time as a writing tutor and editor of various blogs and journals at San Jose State University.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

They met in graduate school; he flitted from lab to lab with a prodigious curiosity but little perseverance.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr