乔布斯在斯坦福大学演讲经典语句
You've got to find what you love
the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios
No big deal
connecting the dots.
trust that it would all work out OK
much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life
you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma,whatever--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference
What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating
I'd been rejected but I was still in love Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.
If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right
You are already naked. There is no reason not
to follow your heart.
death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition
if you were so adventurous. Beneath were the words, "Stay hungry, stay foolish。
乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲：保持饥饿,保持愚蠢(Stay hungry, stay foolish.)..
Stay hungry, stay foolish——乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲：保持饥饿，保持愚蠢Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for yourmencement[kəˈmensmənt] from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.谢谢大家。
很荣幸能和你们，来自世界最好大学之一的毕业生们，一块儿参加毕业典礼。
老实说，我大学没有毕业，今天恐怕是我一生中离大学毕业最近的一次了。
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.今天我想告诉大家来自我生活的三个故事。
没什么大不了的，只是三个故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事，如何串连生命中的点滴。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. Mybiological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.我在里得大学读了六个月就退学了，但是在18个月之后--我真正退学之前，我还常去学校。
乔布斯的经典演讲稿
乔布斯的经典演讲稿乔布斯是一位传奇般的人物，他创立了苹果公司，也是世界著名的演讲家之一。
他的演讲风格激情澎湃，震撼人心，给人们留下了深刻的印象。
以下是乔布斯的一些经典演讲，“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”、“Think Different”、“It’s Show Time”等。
本文将分析这些演讲的精彩之处，以及背后的故事与思想。
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish（求知若饥，虚心若愚）”这句话是乔布斯在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上说的。
在这个演讲中，他和大家分享了他的人生经历和人生信条。
他谈到，自己年轻的时候很饥渴，希望学习更多的东西；同时也很愚蠢，能够接受自己的错误，并从中学习。
这句话引导我们时刻保持一颗好奇心，不断地探索新的事物，保持求知的热情；同时，也要保持谦虚的心态，勇于承认自己的错误，并为此改正自己。
这一演讲体现了乔布斯独特的思想和性格，他一生都在追求创新和成就，在他的带领下，苹果公司不断推陈出新，成为了世界上最为成功和创新的科技公司之一。
Think Different“Think Different（看待问题的角度不同）”是乔布斯推出苹果广告时的一个口号。
这个口号告诉人们，苹果公司将视角放在了不同的方向，挑战了传统的思维方式，不断创新和颠覆科技行业。
这个口号体现了乔布斯的勇气和创新精神。
他一直坚信，只有在不断地尝试和挑战中，才能推动科技行业的发展。
这个口号也激发了很多人的热情，鼓励人们不断创新并在不同的领域中寻找突破口。
It’s Show Time“It’s Show Time（表演开始了）”是乔布斯在苹果公司推出新产品或服务时的惯用语。
这个口号充分展现了乔布斯在演讲时的热情和魅力。
他通过表演来吸引人们的注意力，并分享他所热爱和追求的东西。
他以自己独特的方式向世界展示了苹果公司的新产品和服务，吸引了无数人的关注和支持。
史蒂夫·乔布斯演讲稿子(中英对照)
这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。
Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.谢谢大家。
很荣幸能和你们，来自世界最好大学之一的毕业生们，一块儿参加毕业典礼。
老实说，我大学没有毕业，今天恐怕是我一生中离大学毕业最近的一次了。
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.今天我想告诉大家来自我生活的三个故事。
没什么大不了的，只是三个故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事，如何串连生命中的点滴。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.我在里得大学读了六个月就退学了，但是在18个月之后--我真正退学之前，我还常去学校。
乔布斯在2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲：我生命中的三个故事
"You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says ★★★★★乔布斯说：你必须要找到你所钟爱的东西This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一（欢呼）。
我从来没有从大学中毕业。
说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了（笑）。
今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。
不是什么大不了的事情,也不是讲大道理，只是三个故事而已。
第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
我在里德学院（Reed College）读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在大约一年半以后——我真正作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校旁听。
那么，我为什么要退学呢?（呼声）故事的从我出生前讲起。
我的生母是一个年轻的、未婚的在校研究生。
她决定让别人收养我, 非常希望收养我的是有大学学历的人。
所以，她已经安排好了一切，能使我一出生就被一名律师和他的妻子所收养。
但是她没有料到,当我出生之后,律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。
所以我的生养父母（他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上）突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,你们想要他吗？”他们回答道:“当然！”但是我生母随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学,我的养父甚至从没有读过高中。
所以她拒绝在收养文件上签字。
没几个月,我的生母心软了，因为我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学。
在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。
但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, 我父母还处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。
在六个月后, 我已经看不到其中的价值所在。
乔布斯--记住你即将死去
This is Jobs's speech at Stanford University-----Remembering that I’ll be dead soon记住你即将死去(Remembering that I’ll be dead soon.)——乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿Remembering that I’ll be dead soon.记住你即将死去。
If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most c ertainly be right.如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去生活的话,那么有一天你会发现你是正确的。
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, beca use Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.没有人愿意死, 即使人们想上天堂, 人们也不会为了去那里而死。
乔布斯点连成线原句译文
乔布斯点连成线原句译文
乔布斯点连成线原句是功不唐捐，连点成线。
译文是：你付出的所有努力都不会白费，最终都会回流到你身上。
我们没有办法知道现在做的这件事在未来会怎样，但是当我们回头看的时候，所有的事情都会串联成一条线，你会发现每一个点都是有意义的。
连点成线，是一种因果论。
点是因，线是果。
2005年乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲，是他一生中最为著名的演讲之一。
他在演讲中分享了三个故事，第一个讲的是他人生中连点成线（connecting dots）的经历和感悟。
所以你必须相信这些片断会以某种方式在未来的某一天串连起来。
你
必须要相信某些东西：你的勇气、命运、生命、因缘，随便是什么。
这种
方法从来没有令我失望，只是让我的生命更加地与众不同。
生命中的每一次经历，不管是成功也好，失败也罢，都将会在未来的某一个时间对你产生积极的影响。
哪怕是踩过的雷、趟过的坑，也都会让我们更加皮实抗造。
所以，对某些事情的发生，不要急于下定论，尤其是某些看似吃亏的经历，不要陷入负面的情绪当中。
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最新乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲：保持饥饿-保持愚蠢(Stayhungry-stayfoolish.)解读
Stay hungry, stay foolish——乔布斯斯坦福大学演讲：保持饥饿，保持愚蠢Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement[kəˈmensmənt] from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.谢谢大家。
很荣幸能和你们，来自世界最好大学之一的毕业生们，一块儿参加毕业典礼。
老实说，我大学没有毕业，今天恐怕是我一生中离大学毕业最近的一次了。
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.今天我想告诉大家来自我生活的三个故事。
没什么大不了的，只是三个故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事，如何串连生命中的点滴。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. Mybiological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.我在里得大学读了六个月就退学了，但是在18个月之后--我真正退学之前，我还常去学校。
苹果CEO乔布斯斯坦福演讲(中英文)
苹果CEO+JOBS斯坦福演讲Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the cloesest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about conneting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, enwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents,who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking,"We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said,"Of course"My biolohical mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford. and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the vale in it.I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that lookes far more interesting.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms.I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations.about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac.It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac,it's likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out,I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very,very clear looking backwards 10 years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust in something--you gut, destiny,life,karma,whatever--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky. I found waht I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was twenty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We'd just released our finest createion the Macintosh,a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty,and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first years or so, things went well.But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone,and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. that I had droppedthe baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Oackard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT,another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film,"Toy Story",and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Somethimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lost faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work,and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking,and don't settle.As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it,and like any great relationship it just gets better and better asthe years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.My third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like"If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself,"If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "no"for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important thing I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride,all fear of embarrassment or failure--thesethings just fall you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lost. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago,I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live to longer than three to six months, My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors' code for "prepare to die"It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cell under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully I am fine now.This was a closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice, and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was createdby a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. it was sort of like Google in paperback form thirty-five years before Google came along. It was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was themid-Seventies and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath were the words, "Stay hungry, stay foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. "Stay hungry, stay foolish." And I have always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.Thank you all, very much.今天，我很荣幸能在世界上最好的大学之一——斯坦福大学参加你们的毕业典礼。
史蒂夫乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿：勇敢面对人生挑战
史蒂夫乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿：勇敢面对人生挑战：非常感谢这次能够在斯坦福大学为毕业生们演讲的机会。
今天，我想和大家分享一些我在我人生中的经历和体悟，以及这些经历和体悟对我的人生和事业产生的深远影响。
今天，我们站在这里的人，都已经取得了我们漫长学术路径的荣誉，我们为之辛勤付出铺垫的工作、与家庭朋友的睦邻相处，以及我们多年的探索与学习已经成功地带我们走向了这个人生第一步，开启了我们的职业人生之路。
但是，我想说的是，这个世界不是那么容易地让我们走向我们的愿望，并且实现我们的人生理想。
我们人生中面对着很多的困境和挑战。
然而，战胜这个世界的挑战——需要我们变得勇敢，坚韧而富有创造力。
从我的亲身经历来看，我曾经不止一次地面对挑战和困境。
天赋卓异的我与我的伙伴们最初因为创新和全新的创业想法成立了苹果公司，但在公司成立初期，我们发现公司的经营和运营颇为困难，资金链断裂，公司一度濒临破产。
但是，我这个时候一直坚信着：正是面对这样的人生挑战，才是我成为精英的最佳途径。
虽然我曾经度过无数的失落痛苦日子，但我坚持了下来，并引领了我的团队向前发展。
最终，我们在超过十年的时间内，创造出了苹果公司的辉煌。
对于人生中的挑战和困境，我有一个至爱至性的认识：每一次挫折都是一次成长机会。
无论白天或黑夜，坚定走完自己的道路是意义重大的。
尤其是我们这个时代，在这个时代中，我们每一个人都能够从人与科技、人与自然、人与社会的关系中感受到挑战的痛楚，同时我们在挑战的痛苦中培养了创造力和超越自我的能力。
我们要学会如何在这个纷繁复杂的社会中找到自己的位置和方向，秉持着勇气和自信，哪怕会面对很多的困境，我们也要勇往直前。
任何人的人生经历，无论多么顺利或不顺利，都是我们勇敢面对挑战的必经之路。
我们从挫败中学习知识，迎接挑战，拥有自我的品质和力量，终将铸就个人的辉煌。
大家要记住，人生中任何一次挫折都会成为我们逐步走向成功的人生奠基石。
我祝愿每一个斯坦福毕业生都能够勇敢地面对我们接下来的人生挑战，实现我们的人生理想，生命的意义不在于你曾多少次成功，而在于你曾有多少次韧而不放弃的决心与行动。
乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.求知若渴，虚怀若谷I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.今天，我很荣幸能参加你们的毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。
我从来没有从大学毕业。
说真的，今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。
今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。
不是什么大不了的事情,只是三个故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事是生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?我在Reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在十八个月以后——我真正地作出退学决定之前，我还经常去学校。
那么，我为什么要退学呢?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.故事从我出生的时候讲起。