Leap, Fly, and Learn

[Ken Leung]

To tell the truth, my curiosity has gotten me into quite a lot of trouble.

After high school, I was curious what it would be like to go back to my high school team to help with the robot. So I did.

At the 2003 season, I was curious what it's like to be the scorekeeper. So I volunteered for it. I was also very curious about what the Sacramento, Arizona, Southern California regionals, and Houston Championship Event were like, so I went. I was also curious what IRI was like. So I went to that too. Finally that year I was curious what it's like to help run an off-season event. So I told people I will help run Cal Games.

Look what happened since then.

However, my curiosity also took me to Atlas Shrugged, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance, Bucky, The West Wing, Frazier, Team of Rivals, Founding Brothers, and it took me to Washington DC, A structure of Scientific Revolution, Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman, and to KGO 810am, The Economist, Sports Night, Contact, George Bernard Shaw, my after school lego programs, and back to school again for Mechanical Engineering.

It has brought me back to the FIRST community, namely, the Bay Area FIRST community, and it's brought me to my dream.

The point is, if you never reach out and experiment with different things, you will never have the courage to reach out again. It's only through experiments and experiences where we get to understand ourselves better. Never underestimate the importance of school, or grades. Along the same line, never overlook the importance of inspiring yourself, because the culture around us isn't doing a very good job of it.


Thank you all for your compliments, they made me smile, a lot. Sometimes I am afraid I am making a fool of myself when I do these writings, but no matter, now is the time to make a fool of myself, right?