Never let yourself be diverted
By what you wish to believe
But look only and surely
At what are the facts
I haven’t been able to figure much things out yet, but those I did just stay with me, and I want to share with you, hope it could help you develop a better future.
Hello, i’m mike.gan made in china, going to another school finish my early education; unfortunately that school doesn't teach calculus and higher level chemistry, so I just have to learn it on my own. Remember those online courses? some college will actually proof what you’ve done, learning without go to a school seems possible!
I just came here about 3 years ago, and back in china the school is very different from here, study is more about completion, unlike here which responsibility and self reliance is more important for a student. I remember in my old school many of my classmate fight for everything from the discussion on class to a test grade, and people would laugh at you if they see a “D” on your homework. Then I came here and experience a totally different learning environment which I have much more free time to do what I like, and nice people like you guys. Sometimes I would miss those moments when I and my classmate fight with each other, that excitement stay with me all the time, and perhaps this memory is one of the most important reason why I became passionate about chemistry.
Many teachers gave me helps, but I specially want to thanks Ms.lee who teach me how to be honest, Mr.C who inspired me to think a little deeper about the world; I also learned to try harder in Mr.clay’s class; finally Mr.malkus who developed my major characteristic.
One night I was sitting on my computer, then one question just appear in my head: ”How do matter cold down?”, I tried to use everything I’ve learn in other class to answer this question, but none of it work, it is that moment I remember, the first time I really want to learn; The thought continue all day long, everything just keep coming. Then after a few times of those experience, I saw a pattern, it seems to me now that those great moment doesn’t just appear from nowhere, it came to me perhaps only because I was looking for them in the past three month, those days were the first time I start to walk to school, and discover math and chemistry on my own.
walking is great, you are alone finally, and throw away the phone so we have nothing to do, then it‘ll become’ the best time to do independent thinking. Anyway, at then, I wasn’t really looking for the answer to how things cold down or how to came up with a question, but I been pratice How to think, and what are the ways I can get to a result, such as why is this equation 2sincos? beside it look like half of any double angle on an unit circle would be related to it value of sin or cos, does it actually mean something else other then how it look?
However, I think everything we’ve done will ultimately lead to a pattern that relate to “How we get here” or “Where are we going next?”.
Now I love to discover things on my own, I’m very lucky to find my calling at such young age, so if I could use the right pattern to create what I love, maybe you can do the same thing to, it wouldn’t be the same, but try, we should have faith. Just think about what do you want to become, and start Doing what it takes to create the necessary pattern, maybe you'll be someone new after a few period of time.
However if we want to get somewhere or become someone who you wish to be, try change our pattern, change to the right behavior, I believe that how we decide to do something in the past will lead us to whoever we should be in the future.
I want to be a chemist, if someday we meet again in the future, ask me “Did you become whoever you wish to be?”; So I can say back:” oh, I become whoever I should be.”
The final message would be……
Keep improving, Be a leader, analyze the good treats you like, then create a pattern, and Think a little deeper about ourselve.
THANK YOU.
2006.5.13