When I was a Senior in high school (1983), there was no Internet, but I was interested in Russia and so tried to learn the language via a chart from the 1950s set of encyclopedias in our house. When I went to college in the fall of '83, I enrolled in a first-semester Russian language course as part of my youthful plan to ultimately join the State Department as a Russian expert.
I wasn't very good at languages, and did not pursue my Russian language studies. (To graduate from UT Austin, I had to have 4 semesters of a language: I ended up taking German, the language of my mother.) I was also not very good at the first Foreign Policy class that I took: I studied hard, and I also worked in the Government Department of the university---where I was responsible for printing out the tests... Oh, yes, I cheated. And still got a "B" in the class! (How do you cheat and still get a "B"??)
I wasn't very good at languages, and did not pursue my Russian language studies. (To graduate from UT Austin, I had to have 4 semesters of a language: I ended up taking German, the language of my mother.) I was also not very good at the first Foreign Policy class that I took: I studied hard, and I also worked in the Government Department of the university---where I was responsible for printing out the tests... Oh, yes, I cheated. And still got a "B" in the class! (How do you cheat and still get a "B"??)
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