Christopher L. Smith’s Homeless to Hopkins is the author’s personal story about how he worked to achieve his dream. He started from a very low point in his life and worked all the way up to his now successful career. He went through things that not everyone experiences. He’d get knocked down and just get right back up. He held his head up and stayed optimistic all the way.
Christopher L. Smith’s story was compelling to say the least. It felt like each page was telling you to never give up! I felt like I was getting to know him as I read along and I was also rooting for him along the way. Homeless to Hopkins is such a good read, and I’d imagine it inspires everyone who reads it. It’ll give you a healthy dose of optimism and hope, which I think we all need nowadays. This was a very fulfilling read.
Homeless to Hopkins
“I wish I could just die,” I said to myself as my teeth chattered and my body shook with cold. Knowing I would probably still wake in the morning with my hair frozen to the door, I curled up in a ball, trying to 
find some warmth in the car that was my bedroom. Sadness consumed me like an infection; it had become the norm for me to wake up every day feeling broken.
Most nights like this, all I could hope for was to die in my sleep to be rid of the pain. Despite the terrible nights, I still woke up, dressed, and went to my only refuge, my high school.
This was my life, often alone, cold, sad, and hungry. My youth was different than most, but this was my reality.
However, despite the hardship that was my life and being homeless, something led me on, something saw me through. I survived, I found hope, and eventually, a life even better than I had imagined. Even though I so often faced darkness, I discovered light, laughter, and happiness.
I journeyed from that broken, homeless teenager sleeping in the car to eventually being a Medical Doctor at the world-renowned Johns Hopkins. But most important of all, I found me, I found joy.
This is my story.
