> From:         Carol Singer <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:      Joe Juneau and RPI
 
 
> Last night in the pregame show before the Washington Capitals-New York
> Islanders, they interviewed Joe Juneau.  They asked him about his
college
> days and he talked about coming to RPI with very little knowledge of
> English and then graduating with his degree in aeronautical engineering
> in only 3 years.  He said that it was a lot of work, but it's the thing
> he's done in his life that he was proudest of.
 
> I just thought you RPI fans might be interested.
 
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Overcoming the language barrier to attend school has always been the most
impressive thing to me.  Imagine not just having to communicate with the
"outside" world, but having to take classes in a foreign language!!
 
Ian-Pierre Hebert (senior, UMass-Lowell) was in a similar boat.  As the
youngest senior in the country, he came to Lowell being just a few months
shy of 17.  And he spoke very, very little English.  I heard him on the
radio the other day and he speaks better English than I do!!  Playing a
D-1 sport and getting a degree is hard enough as it is - let alone having
to learn a new language.