Posted Aprial 14 2007 by Lining Wu Liyan came to Boston from Kunming to join his mother when he was a high school student. He later went to MIT and received his bachelor and master degree on computer science. As a teenager coming to this country, he must have gone through similar culture shuck and language difficulty as every one of us did. However, as an engineer working in computer industry today, he doesn't lock himself in his work. Rather, beyond his personal success, he is striving to pay back to American society that has once welcomed him and provided him opportunity to study. In fact, this great country has provided many of us the similar opportunities as it did for Liyan, but not everyone, myself included, has done much to pay back. This is why I admire Liyan, for his courage to overcome the shyness as an Asian boy, and for his rather ambitious plan to raise million dollars to improve people's health in his adopted motherland. I believe he has spent a lot time on his fund raising, and a lot more work needs to be done to achieve his goal. I have communicated my thoughts to our beloved Yunnan Hometown Association leader, AiQi Fang. We will each donate $100 dollars to MIT Cancer Research Center in support to Liyan. Lining Wu