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My law school lifes
My father knew that something was wrong when he encountered me, late one afternoon, sitting on the stoop（门廊）of our house.The dean of the University of Colorado School of Law, I said, had decided that I couldn’t return to claes next fall.My grades were too low.After listening calmly, my father then contacted the law-school dean.But there was no changing the decision.Your son is an excellent young man, he had said, but he’ll never make a lawyer.He even urged that I look for another career.In the meantime, he advised that I stay put in the grocery store where I worked on weekends.I wrote a note to the dean to ask whether I could go back to the school.It went unanswered.Even today words cannot describe my upset.I’d never really failed at anything significant before.In high school I’d been a popular student and a highly regarded football player.I’d coasted through（轻松拿下）the University of Colorado at Boulder without much hard work and had been admitted to its famous law school.My dad knew how much I wanted to become a lawyer.He suggested I look at Westminster College of Law, where claes were held at night because students there held down（保持）day jobs.Dad’s advice was really practical（现实的，实际的），but it hurt like hell, when I began to picture myself at Westminster after having attended law school at Boulder.In truth, my self-confidence had also been hurt badly.I began to wonder whether I had the ability to become a lawyer at all.But in the end I went to see Clifford Mills, Westminster’s dean.I’ll never forget him peering at me through his glaes.“Boy,” he said, “ the only thing you did well in at Boulder was athletic and Spanish course.”
He let me enroll at Westminster on one condition that I repeat all my first-year claes, this time paying attention.One door had closed.But others had opened.Given a second chance, I worked much harder, becoming fascinated by law.In my second year the profeor who taught the course paed away and I was asked to take over.Then for many years I taught claes for judges, law students, and practicing lawyers throughout the country.Meanwhile I worked days in the Denver City Attorney’s office.It was anything but interesting.But it led to a job as an aistant city attorney after graduation.I became a county judge at age 28, one of Denver’s youngest.Later I was appointed by the President as a U.S.district judge.And, finally, I did return to Boulder – to receive the University of Colorado’s George Norlin Award.Sooner or later everyone will fall short at（达不到，不符合）something important to them.Being kicked out of law school, I believe, made me a better judge.It certainly taught me about the need to give people second chances.But failure also taught me that life is a road with unexpected tomorrows.To take advantage of them, you cannot let yourself be destroyed by failure.
