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卡北家长真得给孩子一点身处绝境, 逆袭制胜的训练啊.
把孩子从山庄赶出去, 在社会上睡公园板凳去, 训练一周:cool:, 哪个家长有这魄力???:buttrock:



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从无家可归到进入哈佛 美国寒门少年的逆袭之路(图)
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无论在美国还是在中国,随着社会阶层的固化,“寒门难出贵子”成了一种普遍的社会现象。然而,在这样的时代大趋势中,依然有人不甘于服从命运的安排,通过自己的不懈努力,最后逆袭成功。

今天讲一个美国“寒门”高中生上哈佛的励志故事(这个故事也会让你了解到一个不一样的美国)。

提到被哈佛录取的学生,人们大多会想到那些出身在精英家庭或中产家庭、从小衣食无忧、住在好学区、上着名牌私立中学、精通各种才艺的天之骄子们。按照这些标准,今天的主人公注定是与哈佛无缘的。
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亨特·莫雷特(Hunter Mollett)生长在美国南方密西西比州的农村,今年高中毕业。说起来莫雷特是个名副其实的苦孩子,来看看他过的日子有多苦。

几年前,莫雷特与父母住在一个活动板房里,没有水也没有电。他记得有一次家里没有食物,饿了整整四天,最后莫雷特的爸爸捡到一袋别人扔掉的速冻豌豆,拿回家后和着仅有的一点点玉米面做了一顿饭。莫雷特回忆说那是他吃过的最香的一顿饭,不过他说再也不想体验那种挨饿的感觉了。

上十年级的时候,莫雷特的父母丢下他离开当地,15岁的莫雷特被遗弃了。从此之后,他居无定所。他住过无家可归者避难所,还曾在公园的长椅上过夜,在炎热潮湿的天气里他被蚊子叮得整夜难眠。幸运的是,学校里有很多老师和同学关心照顾着他。
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他曾在很多同学家里临时寄宿过。一年夏天,莫雷特所在学校的乐队指挥马克·爱德华兹老师收留了莫雷特,爱德华兹说:“我希望他过上稳定的生活,知道自己有地方吃饭和睡觉。”莫雷特在爱德华兹家里住了八个月,那是他第一次有自己的房间和自己的床。他就像是爱德华兹家里的一员,有的时候他甚至叫爱德华兹老师“爸爸”。

在美国南部的乡下过着如此穷困不堪的生活,莫雷特却一直坚守着一个“惊人”的梦想,那就是要上哈佛大学。莫雷特在很小的时候心里就播下了梦想的种子,那是在上小学四年级的时候,他很喜欢看电视剧“波士顿法律”(Boston Legal),他问妈妈:“怎样才能成为电视剧里那样的律师?”妈妈随口回答他:“那你必须得上哈佛大学。”

从此,小莫雷特就想着自己有一天要去哈佛,要去遥远的波士顿。他的代数老师刘易斯至今还记得在九年级刚刚开学的时候,这个男孩儿对她说:“我将来要上哈佛大学”。刘易斯老师回忆说:“我当时微笑着对他说,我为他的理想感到很骄傲。可是我心里想,这个密西西比乡下贫穷的可怜孩子竟然想上一所昂贵的名牌大学,这实在是异想天开。可是没有想到四年后这个孩子真的要去哈佛了!”

贫穷能够得到怜悯,但并不能成为进入哈佛的通行证。梦想虽然美好,可是要靠坚持和努力才能实现。

在人们眼中,美国是发达国家,美国的学校教育更是吸引着各国的留学生。事实上,在美国的华人大多聚集在经济较发达的城市,他们或是住在好学区,或是送孩子上私立,对偏僻的乡村学校和生活在那里的人们并不了解。

我曾经通过远程教学方式给一些偏僻的乡村高中上过中文课,我曾多次开车几个小时去看望我的班级。通过与学生们的交流我了解到,在那样的地区,学校的师资水平自然不如城市里,学生就连每个学年上课的天数都比城里的学校少。高中生很少有想继续接受正规高等教育的。他们或想着毕业后帮助父母经营自家的农场,或想通过职业培训在当地找份普通的工作。如果哪个学生说将来想去州府的州立大学,那就算是有远大理想的了。

莫雷特生活的地区,家庭平均年收入只有3万多美元,学校里大部分学生因为家庭低收入而享受政府的免费午餐。

生活在这样的大环境里,如同孤儿一般无依无靠的莫雷特没有让自己沉沦,反而拥有上哈佛的理想并始终坚持着,这简直就如荒漠中冒出的一棵小苗,让人难以相信它能长成一棵树。

来看看这个无家可归的密西西比州乡下中学的男孩,是靠着什么样的表现敲开哈佛的大门的。

莫雷特的高中学习成绩GPA在全年级排名第二,他因此获得了学校的“明星学生”荣誉。

如果你觉得莫雷特的高中整体水平低,他的GPA只能算是一个相对成绩,无法与其他学校的优秀学生做比较的话,莫雷特还有一个响当当的成绩,他的的ACT考试得了34分,ACT和SAT一样是美国高中生升入大学的标准化考试,满分是36分。34分是什么概念?这是在好学区里的好学生都不容易达到的好成绩,哈佛大学2016年录取的新生ACT平均分是33。

ACT成绩和GPA排名这两个数字说明莫雷特具备非常高的智力水平,并在学业上付出了极大的努力。

除了学习以外,莫雷特在才艺和社会活动上也达到了名校录取的要求。

他是学校乐队里出色的小号手,就在高中毕业之前,他入选全州高中狮子乐队(the Mississippi Lions Allstate Band),并将随乐队去芝加哥参加比赛表演,他成为所在的高中十几年来第一次入选这个乐队的学生,给学校带来极大的荣誉。

他在同学中发起创办了名字叫做“爱(Love)”的活动项目,帮助在学校里服务的蓝领工人,如餐厅工作人员、清洁工、校车车库里的工人,感谢他们的默默付出。

一个没有父母关爱的穷苦孩子要有怎样强大的内心和坚强的毅力才能做到这样出色?

人们常说态度决定一切,莫雷特成功的关键就是他的态度,他说:“我试图让自己成为一个幸福和幸运的人,而不是让生命中的那些苦难和负面的东西成为阻碍自己前行的负担。”

非常了解他的老师刘易斯总结说:“莫雷特是罕见的智商和情商双高的学生。他拥有勃勃的雄心和宽厚的同情心。他竭尽全力做好每一件事,可是又非常低调不去炫耀。他天性善良慷慨,总是为别人着想。”

莫雷特被哈佛录取了,并且获得全额助学金,这成了全校的大喜事。三月份哈佛大学邀请新生参观大学,莫雷特所在学校的老师们为他凑足了路费,让他终于有机会第一次坐飞机出远门。

莫雷特用“震撼”这个词来形容自己走在哈佛校园里的感受,想到未来四年他将在看上去舒适温暖的学生宿舍里生活,他感到心满意足。莫雷特准备主修生物医学工程,并想将来做一名胸外科医生。

无家可归、贫困潦倒,这样的莫雷特本该是人们同情怜悯的对象,如今他却赢得了羡慕和赞赏。自身的追求与努力,加上周围老师们的支持关心,还有哈佛的慧眼和慷慨,这一切汇集在起来形成一股强大的力量,让莫雷特如雄鹰一般脱离苦难的泥沼,振翅飞向自己的梦想。
 
才一周算什么,人家整整好多年都无家可归,还饿了整整4天呢。
 
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...issippi-teen-goes-homeless-harvard/335252001/

Mississippi teen goes from homeless to Harvard

David Boone knows all about overcoming obstacles. The college sophomore used to be homeless, but now he finds himself in Harvard classrooms. VPC

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ENTERPRISE — Hunter Mollett hasn’t had an easy life.

Not too long ago, the young man was living in a trailer without power or water with just a griddle to cook on, and no food. He’d spend his nights on a park bench in hot, humid weather with mosquitoes biting him as he tried to sleep.



“The longest I remember going without food was four days,” Mollett recalls. “My parents got a bag of frozen peas that someone had put up way long ago. We cooked those and mixed up some cornmeal with water and fried it. That was the best meal I had eaten in my life. I never want to be without food again.”

Things are better these days, since the senior at Enterprise High School got word he was accepted into one of the most prestigious universities in the world — Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

Mollett plans to study biomedical engineering and pursue his dream of being a cardiothoracic surgeon.

“Going to Harvard has always been a dream of mine ever since I was in fourth grade,” Mollett remembers. “I can remember watching the show ‘Boston Legal’ and asking my mom how they became a lawyer, to which she replied, ‘They went to Harvard.’”

Looking back

Having been abandoned by his parents by his junior year, Mollett has lived like a nomad, moving between caring faculty members, extended family and friends, according to Jacqueline Lewis, his Algebra I teacher and National Honor Society sponsor.

She remembers the young man as a disheveled and poverty-stricken 14-year-old when he entered the ninth grade.

On his first day in Lewis’s class, the freshman told her he was going to Harvard.

“I remember smiling and telling him that I was proud of him for having lofty goals,” Lewis recalls. “But, I also remember thinking to myself — ‘how cute it was that this poor child from rural Mississippi thinks that he will go to such an impressive and expensive university.’ Fast forward four years — Hunter has been accepted to Harvard University with almost a full scholarship.”

Mollett hasn’t been alone on his long journey to the Ivy League.

Along with Lewis, English teacher Sharon Prater is one of the people who was instrumental in making sure he made it to school.

“Hunter is an exception to the rule — I don’t know what else the Lord could have put in his way that Hunter wouldn’t have got around,” Prater said. “Yes, he has had help, but Hunter is the marker to his own success. He is what motivates us to be better.”

Enterprise High School Guidance Counselor Kathy Dedwylder said when she first learned of Mollett’s living situation, he was living with different families — once in a student’s backyard in a camper. One summer, he went to Meridian with his parents where they lived on the street, slept on park benches and lived in a homeless shelter.

He came back to school at the end of his sophomore year, then lived with some people he didn’t know and had no way to get to school.

Dedwylder said those obstacles didn’t stop Mollett’s drive to overcome his situation.

“Hunter has never used his situation as a crutch — he tackles every problem with a certain amount of laughter because if he quit laughing, he would cry, and he will not give in to that despair,” Dedwylder said. “He doesn’t talk about what he has been through but when you get down serious it is not so funny, but he doesn’t dwell on it long.”

One summer, when Mollett didn’t have a place to live, EHS band director Mark Edwards opened his home to him.

“My goal was to get him through the summer,” Edwards says. “He needed stability and for those eight months, my wife and I gave it to him. He knew where he was going to eat and sleep — and was the first time he ever had a room to himself. He had a bed that was his, he got to paint his room, and he could shut the door and listen to his music. He had rules and I treated him just like my father treated me — he was a member of our family and sometimes called me Dad, still does.”

Before Mollett leaves for Harvard, he’ll take a trip to Chicago with the Mississippi Lions Allstate Band as one of 24 trumpeters selected.

“He beat over 100 of the best trumpet players in Mississippi,” Edwards said. “He is the first band member from Enterprise in over 10 years to be in the Lions band. Music is a passion of his, a release, and a getaway. You know if he has those headphones in, either something’s wrong, or something good has happened. I can pick up on that.”

Eyes on the prize

In spite of tremendous trials, Mollett scored 34 on the ACT, which earned him the title of Star Student. He also achieved the second highest GPA at the school and, when he wasn’t studying, founded an annual “LOVE” project, which aims to recognize school employees.

“This year he came to me and said ‘let’s do something for the cafeteria workers or the maintenance guys, or the people who work in the bus barn’,” Lewis said. “Let’s do something for the ones that don’t get recognized. The club loved the idea and we had a wonderful LOVE project.”

One of the keys to Mollett’s success may be his attitude — he says he tries to be a happy-go-lucky person and not think about the negatives in his life.

“The hardest thing has been all my friends are like the richest people at the school,” Mollett said. “They talk about going to the movies and bowling with their friends all the time. Then the fact I live 40 miles away from all of them, I feel disconnected. It kind of bothers me, but they don’t treat me any differently. They include me when they can.”

Lewis says Mollett has the rare combination of intellect and emotional awareness.

“Hunter is absolutely brilliant and has this incredible balance of empathy and ambition,” she said. “He is smart and ambitious and wants to do his best but does not compete with the other kids. He doesn’t look for recognition or to be the center of attention. He’s happy for the ones who do well — that’s his nature. I think it is amazing that the one with the least basic provisions is the one with the most generous heart.”

Visiting the school

Mollett visited Harvard in March for freshman orientation. Without the means to make the trip, the faculty at EHS took up a collection to pay his way.

Mollett describes his first experience on the school’s campus as culture shock.

“The first time I was disappointed because when I got there it was raining, gray and very depressing,” Mollett recalled. “So, I started walking to try and find my way to the motel and noticed this nice square with all of these nice buildings around it…that’s when I looked up and saw a flag that said ‘Harvard.’ Everything up here is so beautiful like all the old style buildings. It was just awesome.

Looking ahead

Down the road, Mollett said he wants to have a large family.

“I don’t want to spoil my kids, but I will make sure they have what they need,” he said.

For now, Mollett plans to leave for Harvard sometime in August. He’s looking forward to being in a place he can call home with pinewood floors and fireplaces.

And while the young man has had a lot of support in his short life, Dedwylder credits divine intervention for sending him from East Mississippi to the Ivy League.

“So many pieces came together and it was all orchestrated by God or it couldn’t have happened,” she said. “There was a divine hand that moved things around for this child to be OK.”
 
卡北家长真得给孩子一点身处绝境, 逆袭制胜的训练啊.
把孩子从山庄赶出去, 在社会上睡公园板凳去, 训练一周:cool:, 哪个家长有这魄力???:buttrock:

有才子出寒门不代表过有艰苦的体验就会成才子, 这两个没有必然联系, 别往一块扯.

"莫雷特是罕见的智商和情商双高的学生" 才是决定因素, 这个是学不来的.
 
不用睡公园板凳。。去吧黑文sleepover一周就磨练意志啦:buttrock:
 
不用睡公园板凳。。去吧黑文sleepover一周就磨练意志啦:buttrock:

放张传媒家就可以是吧[emoji38][emoji38][emoji38]
 
放张传媒家就可以是吧[emoji38][emoji38][emoji38]
你,你说的。。不是我说的。。那是一周吃不上饭:shale:
 
有才子出寒门不代表过有艰苦的体验就会成才子, 这两个没有必然联系, 别往一块扯.

"莫雷特是罕见的智商和情商双高的学生" 才是决定因素, 这个是学不来的.
你这是基因和天生论, 学习可以后天培养,其他方面比如体能,性格,意志都可以通过实践和训练获得,这样的例子很多
 
你,你说的。。不是我说的。。那是一周吃不上饭:shale:

八黑纹不就石桥镇那疙瘩还有可能吃不上饭睡石头嘛[emoji13][emoji13]
 
outliers 不具有普遍意义。去哈佛的大多是上中产家的孩子,我估计,也没啥数据支持。
 
放张传媒家就可以是吧[emoji38][emoji38][emoji38]
别麻烦张帮主,睡人房内一周不妥,影响人家,让睡他家deck上就很不错了,还有cover,比公园凳子强太多了:D
 
别麻烦张帮主,睡人房内一周不妥,影响人家,让睡他家deck上就很不错了,还有cover,比公园凳子强太多了:D

热狗老板让你娃去试一哈,张传媒心很软,胆很小的,在他家呆客上睡了被蚊子啥的咬出病来他怕你讹他![emoji38][emoji38][emoji38]
 
赤裸裸的辱美啊
美国的孩子怎么会挨饿,怎么会无家可归?
 
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