A self-professed student of the game, the 22-year-old Kroos commands such a degree of reverence at Bayern Munich that Schweinsteiger is often positioned alongside Luis Gustavo in a defensive partnership in order to facilitate Kroos's innate intuition in supplying Franck Ribéry, Arjen Robben and Mario Gomez in attack.
Before he moved to Kiev in 2005, Pilash was a self-professed student "nerd" who took a keen interest in socialism and anarchist thinkers such as Peter Kropotkin.
Mr. Blagojevich, a self-professed C student at Pepperdine University's law school, became a lawyer in 1984 and practiced for more than a decade before taking an "inactive" status in 2000.
A self-professed mediocre student, he began college at San Jose State, majoring in physical education.
Some, like Jonathan a local self-professed rapper/engineering student hanging out in Yangon's Maha Bandula Park on a typically sweltering Saturday say punks and rappers still fight on sight in the city.
In class discussions around segments of the show, students professed enthusiasm for The Wire, but in every attempt I made to contextualize social relations whether in terms of the Civil Rights era, or Reconstruction, or any other relevant period, I found myself drawing a blank.
Last season, John Cochran, Harvard Law student and self-professed "Survivor" superfan, predicted great things for his game play because he'd spent so much time studying the show.
Ephraim Shimoni, a 24-year-old Brooklyn college student and self-professed "whale junkie," said he saw his first whale aboard a Cresli trip in August 2002.
Two weeks ago, I met a professed Internet addict, a 20-year-old college student in New York named Gabriela.
Many students enter medical school with a professed interest in a career in primary care.
If his invention's early appeal was at a freshman level, exploiting the desire of college students to check each other out, his professed ambition was much higher: to change the world.
