No, you probably took a class, took tests and read books to master the language.
Everything changed in the spring of his junior year, when on a lark he took a class about clay.
She took a class in social entrepreneurship there, taught by Brent Freeman, CEO of Roozt, an online shopping platform that connects trendsetting, cause-oriented brands with online shoppers.
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She cited an example of a student in his 50s at the Graham School who took a class in classical music and was consequently inspired to take up the violin.
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Taking an elective in college used to mean studying something you wanted to learn about but not necessarily major in: the mathematician who took a class in 19th century Russian literature or the French major who studied Biology 101.
During Mr. Ryan's junior year as an undergraduate at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, he took a class with a professor named Rich Hart, an outspoken and engaging libertarian with a bust of Elvis Presley in his office and an arresting contempt for the direction his university has taken over the past 20 years.
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They built a terrarium, took a spin class.
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Garrett Riekhof, a Higginsville farmer and 2003 Missouri graduate who took the class a decade ago, said the course marked the first time he took a hard look at the business side of his family's operation.
"By the time I took a computer science class in high school, I already knew everything, " he says.
"After I left my job with a bad boss, I took a personal development class, and it really helped improve my confidence and how I was presenting myself to others, " says Levit, who recommends Dale Carnegie leadership seminars.
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At the convention, which about 2, 000 people attended, Ms. Rabinovich took a day-long yoga class from a well-known instructor and met other women training to become instructors.
The SBA sent Corcoran to the local branch of SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), a volunteer mentoring organization, where he was told he couldn't meet with a counselor until he took (and paid for) a day-long class at the University of Pittsburgh that essentially covered the same material he had learned at Robert Morris.
And the result was an economy where some made out well, but the middle class too often took a beating.
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Gough took 855 first-class wickets in a career spanning two spells at his native Yorkshire and one stint with Essex.
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Undeterred, Krislov took the show on the road and filed a copycat class action in California.
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Peters took her case to small claims after opting out of a class action settlement.
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Economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen took a crack at it in The Theory of the Leisure Class, the 1899 classic that wryly posited the theory of "conspicuous consumption, " his phrase for keeping up with the Joneses.
Dawes is a former pace bowler who took 285 wickets in 76 first class matches.
Popular at first as a working-class liquid lunch, the style took on the name of its barrel-schlepping fans: porter.
So one of his first assignments, you know, in an arranging and composing class that I took with him was to write a blues, you know?
But the Netherlands - who have never won the World Cup, despite a rich pedigree of world-class footballers - took the second half by the scruff of the neck, with Van Persie breaking free on a couple of occasions.
Willoughby's efforts took him past 50 first-class wickets for the season, a feat the South African left-arm seamer has achieved in all of his four years as a Somerset player.
The charges were later reduced to a misdemeanor and then waived when Mr. Zimmerman took an anger-management class, according to his attorney.
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In college, curious and in love with the possibilities across the disciplines, I took classes in as many fields as I could, leading me eventually to a class called Environmental Geography.
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It has often been noted how long it took for the Burgess, Maclean, and Philby cases to dislodge the assumption that a certain class of person was more likely to be loyal to his country than the rest.
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