<p>And blindkite–re: foreign language. </p>
<p>There are numerous opportunities to practice your language once the class is over. There are foreign language houses where all the residents agree to converse in a particular language. Each house usually has resident native speaker or instructor. </p>
<p>I also believe you can keep your skills current with the adjunct classes–which meet once a week. I remember D’s tour leader talking about how she had taken Japanese as freshman and she had not practiced, but wanted to brush up on her skills and continue on it 2 years later. She had moved into the Japanese House and had either some private tutoring (free!) from her former prof or had picked up the language again in an adjunct class before re-entering the language course sequence.</p>