Jen L
On
an oil-rig off the coast of Western Australia on April 5, 1992, an unexpected
miracle took place. A girl named Jen was born to Jane
Liu, a hardworking petroleum engineer. After the birth, Jane decided to
bring her work a little closer to her home in Massachusetts. While sailing
across the world, Jen and Jane faced an incredible set of obstacles. Battling whale
hunters, pirates in international waters, and gangs of mutant pufferfish, Jen overcame some of the most difficult hardships before she could
even talk. After a few days of notable crawling, Jen was picked up
by local circus performers looking for a tight-rope walker. For the next 6
years of her life Jen would learn the acrobatic ways of a traveling
performer. One day, a fat man in the audience threw a bag of
popcorn at the tightrope, getting the rope buttery. Jen slipped
during her performance and fell to the ground, breaking her small toe,
permanently ending her circus career. Discouraged and
depressed, Jen spent the next ten years living on a hot-air balloon. While
sailing over the destruction of Chernobyl and the littered factory cities of
post-Soviet Bloc nations, Jen had a realization: she would develop a system
of recycling all the waste products humans create and make the world a cleaner
place. She applied to MIT so that she could learn the
skills necessary to make her dream come true. Ever since, Jen has been
working hard towards a degree in computer science at MIT and experimenting with
creative uses for her rice-cooker.
Flossy
And I was just wodneirng about that too!
Anonymous
if only we were all more like Jen, she is amazing.
Anonymous
This story is truly inspirational. What an amazing life journey!