苹果CEO乔布斯的人生故事_BEC初级作文

苹果CEO乔布斯的人生故事

十七年过去了，我真地上了大学。但我却很天真地挑了一个和斯坦福大学一样学费昂贵的学校，光是学费就花掉了我养父母辛辛苦苦积攒多年的积蓄，他们只是工薪阶层。在学校待了六个月后，我看不出这学费花得值得。我不知道我的人生计划是什么，也不知道大学能够如何帮助我找到这一目标。而且，我在学校念书会花掉养父母一生的积蓄。于是，我决定辍学，并坚信这是一个正确的决定。当时，这是一个相当冒险的举动，但今天回头看看，那是我做出的最明智的决定之一。辍学之后，我马上逃离了那些我对之乏味的课程，转而开始旁听那些看起来很有趣的科目。

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 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 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:

但事情也并非全是美好的。辍学后我就没有寝室了，因此，我睡在朋友房间的地板上。为了有钱吃饭，我把可乐瓶子退回商店，只为了那5美分的押金，每周星期天晚上，为了吃一顿好的大餐，我还要走7英里的路，到城镇另一头的印度哈而克利须那寺。但我热爱这种生活。而且，许多我出于好奇和直觉而偶然去做的事，后来也变证明是非常值得的。我来为你们举一个例子：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 san 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.