Two years before graduating from secondary school, I took a sewing and design course thinking that I would move on to a fashion design course.

在中学毕业前两年，我上了一个缝纫和设计的课，以为自己会继续学习时装设计课程。

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Learn C before graduating.

毕业前学会C语言。

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Before graduating, it can help students learn more about society.

在他们毕业之前可以更好的了解社会。

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But faced with the question what should he do, what did he want to do with his remaining couple of years, what he decided he wanted to do -- was finish his Yale degree-- thought he'd set himself the goal of graduating college before he died.

但面对着他该做什么这个问题，在他剩余的几年生命里他想要做的事，他所决定的他想要做的事,是完成他的耶鲁学位-,认为他想给自己设定在死之前,从大学毕业的目标。

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Blake launched Funding Universe in 2005, shortly before graduating from Brigham Young University.

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But just before graduating from MIT, he says, a military physical showed that he had a heart murmur, disqualifying him.

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Excelling in math, he made it to the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois, but left before graduating.

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