I had a Russian classmate whose son recently went to the Chinese course out in Monterrey. Unfortunately, he washed out. Just wasn’t his cup of tea. He did get a sweet gig doing something technical so it wasn’t all a loss.
I took the Russian course at Monterey. Never forget that not long after we started the class a guy from NSA came to talk to us.
He said to study hard, get drunk on Friday and Saturday and dry out on the beach on Sunday to get ready for Monday :)