About Me
My name is Derek Ye, and I've been hanging around the Dunlap-Peoria area for pretty much my entire life. Obviously, as a high school student, I still have a very small understanding of the world, but I believe that what I do after school helps to make me much more experienced. Nerdy things like math club, robotics, flight club, and band. It goes without saying that these have all had an impact on my life (shockingly, they wouldn't be included if that weren't the case.) Doing things that challenge you changes the way that your brain works. The "engineers mindset" is a solid example of how constant exposure to problems and solutions eventually makes someone think in a new way. Even though it's easy to just overgeneralize things that you do as just "fun" or "meh," there's something to be learned from everything that you do. Activities that you stop doing still teach you things years after they've passed.
What I'm trying to get at is there is a snowball effect in your life. The events when you were a child make you who you are when you're an adult. The people you meet by pure chance may become business partners or lifelong friends. Small gestures may seem like normal politeness to you, but they can mean the world to someone else. I once offered to let one of my friends sleep on the bed all the way back at 5th grade Space Camp when no one was budging from their spot. My mom brought it up recently because that moment was shared to my friend's mom which is why she's been so nice to me since. My friend saw was an act of kindness; my tiny brain thought it would be cool to try sleeping on the floor for a little bit. Maybe this reminds you of a situation in your life.
All the work I've done in math and science for throughout my very Asian life has made me good at seeing patterns and relations. Many things in our world connect to each other through a tangled web of confusion. This is why the things that often get overlooked should be the focus of the attention. A few details and some research may be all that's needed to see something in a new light. The only problem is that human brains are very good at filtering out non-crucial information. Once you start to see the small things though, the story beings to unfold. It's almost like solving a puzzle or tracking down a criminal. Maybe my brain likes digging through the mud to find a shiny gem of knowledge. Maybe I'm just exposed to so much garbage from the internet that enough meaningful things stick to it. Either way, I'd love to show you how my brain operates outside of any box and somehow manages to discover things from the most random places. Welcome to the show.