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I began my college experience just after my family had fallen apart.
我的大學生涯伊始，家庭就分崩離析。
Our financial situation disintegrated just after my father's departure from our lives.
隨著父親離我們而去，家里的經(jīng)濟狀況急轉直下。
This thrust my mother, my sister and I out of the relative comfort of middle-class life and into the almost constant struggle to make ends meet.
我的母親，姐姐和我，一下子從衣食無憂的中產(chǎn)階級生活掉入了勉強維持生計的生活狀態(tài)。
Thus, I was one of roughly 60 percent of women of color who find finances to be a major barrier to their educational goals.
就這樣，我與其他差不多60%的女性有色人種一樣，財務狀況成為我們求學的主要障礙。
Thankfully, Norfolk State University provided me with full funding, and I was able to achieve my bachelor's in physics.
幸運的是，諾福克州立大學為我提供了全額獎學金，我成功獲得了物理學學士學位。
After graduation, and despite knowing that I wanted a PhD in astrophysics, I fell through the cracks.
畢業(yè)以后，盡管懷揣成為天體物理學博士的夢想，但現(xiàn)實依舊不遂人愿。
It was a poster that saved my dream, and some really incredible people and programs.
是一張海報拯救了我的夢想，當然還多虧一些好心人和項目。
The American Physical Society had this beautiful poster encouraging students of color to become physicists.
美國物理學會為了鼓勵有色人種學生成為物理學家，設計了一張非常美的海報。
It was striking to me because it featured a young black girl, probably around 12 years old,
它深深打動了我，海報上是一個黑人小女孩，也許12歲左右，
looking studiously at some physics equations.
在非常認真地解物理方程。
I remember thinking I was looking directly back at the little girl who first dared to dream this dream.
這讓我想起了曾經(jīng)的自己，那個曾經(jīng)敢于夢想的小女孩。
I immediately wrote to the Society and requested my personal copy of the poster, which to this day still hangs in my office.
我立刻給學會發(fā)了封郵件，請他們給我一張海報，現(xiàn)在這張海報還掛在我的辦公室里。
I described to them in the email my educational path, and my desire to find myself again in pursuit of the PhD.
我在郵件里講述了我的求學之路，也表達了自己想繼續(xù)攻讀博士學位，實現(xiàn)自我價值的想法。
They directed me to the Fisk-Vanderbilt University Bridge Program,
他們將我介紹到“菲斯克-范德堡大學橋梁計劃”，
itself an intersection of the master's and PhD degrees at two institutions.
這個計劃本身就是個交叉點，涵蓋來自兩所大學的碩士和博士學位。
After two years out of school, they accepted me into the program, and I found myself again on the path to the PhD.
我在離開學校兩年后，加入這個計劃，再次踏上了成為博士的道路。
