Jeremy Lin
Kevin: Many people are amazed that I am so crazy about him. Finally, I have some time to write some reason why I love this guy so much because there are so many similar experiences that I have and many lessons that I learned from him.
Jeremy Lin's home in Palo Alto, California is just about 10 minutes drive from where I live. Every time, my family go out for a walk, we will almost always pass his high school. Even though, he is the state MVP and lead his high school team to a record high win in the history of America, not so many schools think he can play basket ball. Few blocks away, Stanford refused to give him a athlete scholarship. UC Berkeley, just one hour away, also refused to do that. So he had to go to Harvard using only his GPA and SAT scores. However, he never drops his dream, playing basketballs. In Harvard, he lead the basketball team record high. After the college, still not so many people could believe a Harvard graduate could play basketball in NBA. He got drafted and then undrafted several times and could only sleep on the his brother's or his teammate's coaches. However, he never give up trying and then finally got to shine in one of the biggest NBA place--Madison Square Garden. Maybe, Jeremy Lin is just average skilled point guard and over-rated. However, I think that he represents one group of people that who are struggling to chasing their own dreams.
Studied in BYU-Idaho, one of the low ranked college in the United State, I really want to pursue my career in some of the best colleges and do my research with some famous scientists. However, many people just laugh at it. One of the professor in BYU-Idaho, who wrote me several recommendation letters to institutes such like Harvard and Spring Harbor Lab, said that I should apply for some easier colleges, such as states universities. However, I refused and finally got two internship offers from both Okaland Children Hospital and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). I chose to go to LBNL and got two publication at hand. Many think this internship was easy. I do not think so. Every morning, I had to get up early and every night, I need to do extra study to catch up with the research team. To write these two papers, I have studied 700 protein structures published on electron microscopy and finish write paper in one week.
Chasing our dreams is hard but giving up is so easy. Thanks Jeremy Lin for giving me courage to do something that is meaningful to me and to the people surround me. Picture following is where I worked in LBNL, playing a million dollar toy @ national center of Electron Microscope.
Jeremy Lin's home in Palo Alto, California is just about 10 minutes drive from where I live. Every time, my family go out for a walk, we will almost always pass his high school. Even though, he is the state MVP and lead his high school team to a record high win in the history of America, not so many schools think he can play basket ball. Few blocks away, Stanford refused to give him a athlete scholarship. UC Berkeley, just one hour away, also refused to do that. So he had to go to Harvard using only his GPA and SAT scores. However, he never drops his dream, playing basketballs. In Harvard, he lead the basketball team record high. After the college, still not so many people could believe a Harvard graduate could play basketball in NBA. He got drafted and then undrafted several times and could only sleep on the his brother's or his teammate's coaches. However, he never give up trying and then finally got to shine in one of the biggest NBA place--Madison Square Garden. Maybe, Jeremy Lin is just average skilled point guard and over-rated. However, I think that he represents one group of people that who are struggling to chasing their own dreams.
Studied in BYU-Idaho, one of the low ranked college in the United State, I really want to pursue my career in some of the best colleges and do my research with some famous scientists. However, many people just laugh at it. One of the professor in BYU-Idaho, who wrote me several recommendation letters to institutes such like Harvard and Spring Harbor Lab, said that I should apply for some easier colleges, such as states universities. However, I refused and finally got two internship offers from both Okaland Children Hospital and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). I chose to go to LBNL and got two publication at hand. Many think this internship was easy. I do not think so. Every morning, I had to get up early and every night, I need to do extra study to catch up with the research team. To write these two papers, I have studied 700 protein structures published on electron microscopy and finish write paper in one week.
Chasing our dreams is hard but giving up is so easy. Thanks Jeremy Lin for giving me courage to do something that is meaningful to me and to the people surround me. Picture following is where I worked in LBNL, playing a million dollar toy @ national center of Electron Microscope.
Chris King : Well, Just playing in NBA league itself gives a lot of credit to Jeremy Lin. He is an awesome player. However, I think that it is too early to evaluate his career achievement. He just barely started. Sometimes, I hear people comparing Jeremy Lin to Coby Bryant and other top NBA players. Because of unexpectancy or low expectancy in NBA history for Asian players , he does look special, but he is just one of NBA players. His success may inspire many Asians, but honestly speaking he is not even a Taiwanee, Asian. He is an American. He was raised here in the United States. I means that there isn't much thing that he can identify himself as an Asian. What he learned and experienced are the same as other Americans. If Asian people are proud of him and claim that he is an Asian, they have to think about what their countries did for him. Nothing. Are they going to claim that Chinese dumpling made him so special? No. Jeremy just studied hard and practice hard enough to get into Harvard and NBA. Other NBA players also practice thier skills as much as Jeremy Lin does. There are many Asians attending at Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Stanford, but it is not because they are Asian or any particular ethnicity. They did hard work and proved their skills. Jeremy Lin is just one of American citizen who works hard. He is not different from others.
Queen P.: Kevin, you are admirable to dream big! However Chris does pose a real argument, Jeremy Lin may be Asian, but he was born in America. "Jeremy Lin just studied hard and practiced hard enough to get into Harvard and the NBA." True. However I am excited for an Asian to be in the mainstream. Ling-chi Wang, professor emeritus of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley asserted that mainstream media coverage of Asian communities in the United States has always been "miserable." He states, "In [the] mainstream media's and policymakers' eyes, Asian Americans don't exist. They are not on their radar... and it's the same for politics."[1] Keep being a frontiersman Jeremy Lin, Kevin, and all aspiring Asian's out there. Keep continuing to pave the way for America's future!