undergrad
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He is comfortably smarmy in the role of an overconfident undergrad at Vassar College who reassures everyone that he is certain to win an important fellowship for the summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Curry was an undergrad at the University of Texas at Arlington and a graduate of the University of Houston Law Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Sotomayor has long been an advocate for criminal defendants in her jurisprudence, and for her part, Jackson’s thesis in undergrad even covered coercive plea bargaining.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
I had gone to college — undergrad was free on a Pell Grant for low-income students — but borrowed money for graduate school.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
“When I was babysitting in undergrad, one day I heard myself telling the kid I was babysitting, ‘You’re such a trouper!’
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My undergrads are rightly fearful about the climate crisis but working in community to find their way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
The government will begin a new consultation in the autumn to look at options for a minimum English language requirement for prospective undergrads to access student finance.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
When the school held a recent trivia and bingo night, about 20 retirees attended alongside around the same number of Goucher undergrads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
The school has 30 faculty members and is developing a major, a master’s program and a Ph.D. program on American political thought and constitutionalism to supplement the growing work with undergrads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
This was one Doctor L——, a rough, even uncouth, old don, who was for the nonce holding a sort of rude class, surrounded by a crowd of "undergrads."
From John Forster by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
