Tamerlan Tsarnaev had studied at Bunker Hill Community College and wanted to become an engineer, according to those who knew him.

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All this meant two things were inevitable: that it would be a long while before my first kiss, and that I would one day become an engineer.

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Mr Martin began his working life as a miner at Park Colliery, studying at night school to become an engineer before taking a lecturer's post at Rhondda College.

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D'Angelo plans to become an engineer.

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For one, the essence of the American dream: how a little Cuban-American kid on the margins of mainstream America could grow up with confidence, have the opportunity to become an engineer thanks to the hard work of his parents who could barely speak English, and then go on, choosing to become a poet who is now asked to speak to, for and about the entire nation.

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Kray is nearly 16 now, he is going to college this year and wants to become an aerospace engineer because he loves physics.

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How do I become an MIT caliber engineer on my own?

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