Great Inspirational Story

This is from the June 2009 edition of Guideposts magazine. I highly recommend you read the entire article:

Every year 32 American college seniors pass through a grueling application process to win a coveted Rhodes scholarship.

They get two years of all-expense paid study at Oxford University in England. More than that, they join a cen­tury’s worth of distinguished statesmen, scientists, artists, writers and teachers—men and women who went on to become some of the most successful people in their generation. Being named a Rhodes scholar is perhaps the highest honor an American college student can receive.

Which is why, when I began filling out the Rhodes application last year, I half wondered if I was crazy. My academic record wasn’t so great.

I got routinely suspended from school, starting in sixth grade. I was expelled outright from my junior high. I’d spent the better part of my early teens hanging out on the streets of Belling­ham, Washington, where it never seemed to stop raining.

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