From Homeless to Harvard女儿当自强——走进哈佛的穷孩子.docVIP

From Homeless to Harvard ? 萝拉莉·萨默 1998年从哈佛大学毕业，主修儿童研究，后又获得伯克利大学的教育学硕士学位。但谁会想到，她曾经是一名落魄的街头流浪儿。萝拉莉根据自身经历撰写的《流浪到哈佛》（Learning Joy From Dogs Without Collars）成为当年的畅销书，并受到哈佛大学著名心理分析与医学人文教授、普利策奖得主罗伯特·科尔斯博士诚意推荐。“萝拉莉·萨默旋风”曾经狂扫美国各大平面与电子媒体，“萝拉莉·萨默”也因此成为美国无人不知、无人不晓的名字，成为“美国梦”的象征。 ? ? From Place to Place On a sunny morning June 1998, twenty-one-year-old Lauralee Summer waited for the start of her graduation ceremony at Harvard University That Lauralee Summers mother loves her is not in question, never has been. But the mother was unable to do what most children take for granted in Lauralees childhood: set a schedule, make sure she went to school, get meals on the table, and make a stable home. For much of Summers childhood, mother and daughter moved from shelter to welfare hotel to temporary room to a relatives house. By the time she was 12, they had already moved 12 times. A Fresh Start In 1989, they headed east. Summer says her mother told her that Boston “had good schools and was rich with cultural history.” Thus began a stay at shelters, welfare hotels, and rented rooms throughout the Boston area. For the first time in her life, there were rules, regular meals, and order. There Lauralee enrolled in Quincy High School. Lauralee would take her second-hand skateboard all over Thanks to her teacher, Charles Maclaughlin, Lauralee made decent grades, joined the boys wrestling team and found a place at Harvard. She wasnt the top student in her high school class (twentieth in a class of 300), and her SATs werent perfect (1,450 out of 1,600). But her admissions essay set her apart from the multitudes of privileged Harvard kids. “I wrote about my mom mostly, and a little about being homeless,” she says. “I wrote about wanting to help other homeless kids.” “Shes special, and someday shell do something incredible; I really believe that,” says Maclaughlin, “Her mother gave her things that are priceless—a lot of love, and a love of reading.” For a long time, she felt more comfortable