Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then came what Paula claims was a three-month-long, nearly sleepless crank run that left her homeless, expelled from school and seeing ghouls behind every tree. Crankers tend to exaggerate, but her memories of the streak have that patented methamphetamine exactitude. "I knew I had to get nutrition, so every day I had a pudding snack, an applesauce and a little carton of milk," she says...
...before she heads off to grab a masters of education to add to her A.B. in children's studies (a special concentration she designed herself), Summer will take next year off to expand her creative thesis into a book on her childhood, including the periods during which she was homeless...
...most of her life, Summer and her mother were on their own. When she was in the fourth and eighth grades, Summer and her mother were homeless...
Indeed, for many of us, the most precious lessons came while teaching children about science, politics or peace; while serving food in Cambridge homeless shelters; while playing a sport; while organizing conferences and discussions on global and national issues or while participating in one of the countless annual performances on campus. We developed intellectual ties that transcended many of the cultural and societal differences we brought with us four years...
...came to Harvard, I was convinced I had to justify my right to be here. Maybe I didn't deserve to get in, but I would prove that I deserved to stay. I still had time to discover the cure for cancer, I could personally find all the homeless people in the Square a job and I had one more shot at being valedictorian. But none of that happened...