He started to study geneology, and finally got a Guggenheim fellowship.
He started to study maths and computer science but confesses to having been "equally bad at both".
"His assault boat landing craft was constantly being repaired in Yokohama," his wife said, "so he started to study Japanese".
Returning to a shattered Hamburg, he started to study politics and economics and joined the Social Democratic Party SPDD) in 1946, driven not by idealism but by the plight of the poor in the city.
In 1970, he started to study with Indian vocal master Prandit Pran Nath and his musical activity since then has evolved a fluid exchange between improvisation and composition, between aspects of jazz, Indian music and classical structure.
As Eric Mu writes on Danwei this week, in a terrific look back at the Zhang Wuben story, Zhang's capacity for self-invention would have ranked him among the finest of American hucksters: He claimed his family to be "aristocrats" of Chinese medicine and that he started to study Chinese medicine with his father from the age of six….
During his first year in college, at the University of Pennsylvania, Chomsky was bored and considered dropping out, but then he started to study with Zellig Harris, a linguistics professor who was involved in just the sort of left-Zionist politics that Chomsky was.
Right after, he started to study Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf.
Parallel to his research work, he started to study Information Engineering part time at CUAS, where he received his M.Sc. in 2010.
He started to study for the priesthood, but left and enrolled for a medical degree at the University of Pisa.
