In the US, thousands of students each year start their journey to becoming doctors by enrolling in a Bachelor's degree program.
After serving as a Navy typist in the Pacific during World War II and abandoning dreams of becoming a playwright, he enrolled in the Iowa workshop alongside aspiring poets like Donald Justice, William Dickey and Philip Levine.
A New Jersey native who said he always dreamed of becoming a chef, Mr. Gilbert enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park as soon as he got out of high school and by age 21 was a sous chef at the Water Club in New York.
But he decided against becoming a rabbi, and enrolled in university first in Breslau and then in Berlin, where he attended classes taught by a leading light in the history of philosophy, the Aristotelian scholar and metaphysician Adolf Trendelenburg.
Newman's family told the Chicago Tribune the teen was excited about becoming a mother, and enrolled in GED classes at a southwest suburban community college hoping to learn a trade and raise her daughter on her own.
Gilbert himself had no intention of becoming a professor when he enrolled as an undergraduate student at Miami University in Ohio.
Dunlop's love affair with China began in earnest when she moved to Chengdu in 1994, becoming the first foreigner to enroll in the professional chefs' training course at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine.
It's not surprising, then, that during her two years in residence she spent most of her time studying that food, becoming the first foreigner to enroll in a three-month professional cooking course in Chengdu.
Manufacturers and doctors at the advisory panel hearing here told the F.D.A. that it was becoming harder and harder to enroll patients in trials of the devices because those who want ablation are unwilling to accept that they might be randomly assigned to the group receiving arrhythmia drugs instead.
One soon-to-be-graduating mom is Cristina Garcia, who, after surviving Hurricane Katrina, overcoming addiction and becoming a single parent, decided to enroll at Collin College, a Texas community college.
