Tonight, Jesus Week started .

For those that don't know, it's a week at my campus where Christians come together to make known the presence of God on campus. By doing so, we want to share the amazing love of Christ through our words, our actions, and our prayers. Plus, it's also for Christians. A lot of us here are too focused on school and the future, money and time, and our desires and dreams, that we often forget the sole reason that we're here - God. We hope to remind Christians that our life is about Christ. We don't want it to be just a week of Christ-centered loving, we want it to be the start of a life-long love.

Tonight's opening Campus-wide prayer was amazing. We were all excited because tonight, we were finally going to see the start of God's work for Jesus Week. There were only a few of us, but the prayer was real and sincere. I missed that . Oftentimes, I feel like fellowships and churches can seem institutionalized and directed to fit our needs. We aim to end meetings at exactly Xpm or repeat the same prayers every week that it has become merely a jumble of words that have been engraved in our brains. We sometimes lose focus and everything becomes routine. We don't realize why we're here, why we have fellowship, why the fellowship is connected to the church, and what God has called us to do.

But tonight, with the small group of really passionate people, I saw and felt the sincerity. We really want this God . Start with us first and work throughout our campus. Help us all to love you and love strangers. Let our hands and eyes be your hands and eyes. That is my prayer.

Please pray for Jesus week and the upcoming 24/7 Prayer tent. It's going to be an amazing two weeks.

Hi guys,

This will be my 3rd year fundraising and participating in relay for life!
Our teams walk around a trackfield from 8pm-8am this Friday-Saturday in order to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

It's actually one of the more meaningful years because one of my close mentors from my church has recently been diagnosed with cancer. We give our thanks to God for her amazing doctors who are treating her. However, it takes effort from all of us to help the fight against cancer gain momentum. One of the ways that we can help is to donate to the American Cancer Society. If you guys feel compelled to, please donate to the American Cancer Society through my service fraternity's team at http://main.acsevents.org/goto/YoungYim.

Once again: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/YoungYim

-Young Yim

PS: This is something totally off-topic, but I've noticed that I need A LOT of prayer when it comes to doing things for God so please pray for my friends and I as we work to glorify God's kingdom at my school's Jesus week!

1. http://www.edithzimmerman.com/blog/?m=200903
This blog is pretty cool . She turns food into art.

2. I need a job. Anyone want me? I like start-ups!

3. I want to play with legos or work on a puzzle.
Time does not allow .

4. I feel like a business man discussing Venture capital stuff all day.
yay stocks? Actually...nvm, look at our world today.

5. Anyone know any good Korea programs? I might as well go to Korea and get better at my own language!

I'm starting to realize how different God makes every single one of us.

To some, this may seem like a bold statement, but bear with me.
The more and more I dig deeper, the more and more I realize... evolution didn't create this beautiful collaboration of beautiful people. I look at how we exist and what makes us work. We have our unique brains, sizes, color, qualities, smiles, personalities; we have our organs all in the perfect places made with an insane network of cells which are regulated by tons of enzymes which are also regulated by lots of processes. Everything in our body is determined by our DNA which contains tons of information which can be passed down and interchanged throughout generations to make all different kinds of people! And even as we dig deeper and deeper into the tiny little things that make us into who we are, we can't figure out where it all started!

Even if we attribute it to one single cell, where did that cell come from? How did it turn into us and 50 other millions things on this planet?

How can a scientist, after studying all of this, not wonder if there was divine creation?
There is nothing more complicated than the human system .

With that said, I'm going to talk about how interesting it is that God makes us all different. There are people who are good at different things and bad at others, but somehow, you find someone or know that there is someone on this planet that are good at what you are not good at and bad at what you are good at. You wonder why people laugh at the jokes that you think are retarded and why people don't laugh at the ones that you think are hilarious. You wonder why people resort to violence and hatred while you are a pacifist. But you also realize that you're a pacifist who secretly hates and lies for your own image. You start to realize that some people have stronger faults that others can visibly see and others have an equal weakness in areas that are often missed and unreadable. You wonder why you're so passionate about the lives of the homeless people and the status of the church while your friend next to you wonders why your passion is too strong in those areas and not in the areas of fellowship and bonding. You look around and search for people with your same passions, but you can't really find them because they're off doing the same things that you're doing, searching and not waiting. It seems like others around you have found people that are equally passionate in their areas because for some reason, more people are passionate about X and Y instead of Z. You start to realize though, that everyone has a different reason that they were made and that God, in His Perfect plan, has made you for a reason, whether big or small, to further the Kingdom of God. That you are like the human system, working together for one purpose, to keep the body alive. Some people act as enzymes, some as tiny cells, others as organs, some as mitochondria, some do the energy building, some provide the microtubules for communication, some are the red blood cells. They work together to make the body survive. This body, is the body of Christ.

Like the cells and enzymes at work to keep our body strong, we work to keep Christ strong. We're a body of believers, all called for a different purpose with different backgrounds and different passions. Sometimes, the body clashes and some cells within the body will never understand the other, but as they go on & do the work that they were made to do in the body, the body survives and stays strong.

Just like how we will never understand the human body, I will never truly understand how we all work together to glorify God's Kingdom since we are such a vast network of believers created with a different purpose to come together perfectly for God. But I will say, after just a piece of this unfathomable realization, "What an amazing God!"

It's perfectly planned. It's so perfectly planned that we will never understand, but it comes together beautifully .
You and you and you and you are all beautiful. You're all important.

So I'm taking a class for one of my major credits.
Basically, we're all assigned to a doctor (of a range of specialties), and we follow him/her around ~10 hours a week (at least we're supposed to). We're supposed to identify a problem that they encounter in their work and fix it with an engineer's perspective.

After being switched around (because my other doctor was a bit busy and... yah haha I won't say), I've been placed w/a REALLY awesome respectable doctor in the Hospital of Univ. of Pennsylvania's Simulation lab. Med students and interns and even doctors go to the lab to practice procedures on mannequins before doing them on actual patients. I realized how important simulators are because it really gives them practice before going to real people and trying procedures that can be pretty hard to do.

Anywho, I was able to do a Lumbar puncture and thorocentesis on these mannequins. 'Twas cool. I'm starting to love this major and what this school offers me . Yay for awesome classes. I love awesome classes. College needs awesome classes. I learn much more in this setting than in a library stall sitting around all day reading and studying and doing problem sets. W00t for preceptorships!

These are really cool photos of the two simulators we worked with this week. My camera broke so I had to use my cell phone camera. Anyway, go bioengineering w00t w00t (never thought you'd hear me say this huh)?

Ain't this cool?!

This weekend, I realized how much I missed my Korean culture.
I guess that sometimes, when you're constantly in an environment that's different from what you grew up with, you start to miss it.

I had an amazing opportunity to listen to and meet a few speakers at KASCON (Korean American Student Conference).
It was held at Penn this year and I had the privilege to volunteer there as a slave . But even as a "slave," I got to meet some amazing people.

The first people I met were Yuri Tag and Mike Song from Kaba Modern (dance crew from America's Best Dance Crew). I had no idea who they were lol but they were cool .
I had to privilege to escort Paul "PK" Kim (Choco-ramen song or the oppah song), who started Kollaboration in 2000. His executive director (Will, who I really appreciate for having a very thankful heart for small little things).

They were the "cool" and the "in" celebrities, but there are two people that I have the utmost respect for and I'll highlight them below.

Dr. Robert Seung-Bok "S.B." Lee.
I had the privilege to introduce him as he began his seminar, not really knowing too much about his struggles in his life other than the fact that he was a quadriplegic physician at Johns Hopkins University, which is...already quite an accomplishment. He's a Korean-American immigrant who was chosen to represent Korea in the 1984 Olympics for gymnastics. However, before he had the chance to compete, he landed wrong and over-extended his neck, crushing his spinal cord. He was paralyzed from the neck down. His determination was so strong, that he was able to go through college, get a masters in public health at Columbia, and even go to Med School at Dartmouth (holy smokes). He obviously didn't breeze through this because it's hard enough for people who have normal function to do all of this. But he pulled through, and guess what, he attributed all of that to God . In Christ, he found his strength.
Amazing man and I really respect him. Even more amazing God.

Washington Senator Paull Shin
My church teacher back at home made me listen to his testimony years ago on tape for over an hour. It was so amazing that I realized I didn't forget any bit of it. His mother died at age 4 and his father abandoned him soon after. He lived from train station to station, street to street barely surviving and dreaming about food. He told us in the room, "I was afraid of you guys (Young adult Koreans), who would yell at me, kick me, and tell me to go away."
When he was 16, a U.S. soldier found him, adopted him, and took him to America. Paull was uneducated all throughout his life, he had no school at all, but his new mom taught him English. Paull took his GED (because he was too old for high school), and went on to college and became a professor. All through his life, he struggled with hating his father for abandoning him. But his wife (who is white), encouraged him to forgive and to love, because one day, he might regret this. When he returned, he found his father with a new woman and 5 (or 4) children living in an apartment. He felt so betrayed he ran out and flew back to the US in tears. His wife encouraged him to love them more, and he brought each of his half brothers to the states one by one since they were living in poverty. Lastly, he had to face his father who abandoned him. He cried all night and spoke to his father and asked him why he left him. His father ran away as Paull was crying. When he came back a few hours later, he said, "How could I leave my own flesh? When I left you, I could not take care of you and I was being sold into servanthood. Son, can you forgive me?"
That was all it took.
Paull Shin went on to run for a Senate seat against a 4 term incumbent. Shin did not have the money that his opponent had, so he went door to door, 11 hours a day, knocking and asking people for his vote. This strong but unexperienced man went on to win the election with a super majority vote after spending only $21K compared to his incumbent's $300K. The next day, instead of taking a vacation like most politicians, Senator Shin went out on the streets with a sign, "THANK YOU," and he waved it for hours. He has been elected senator ever since .
He described America as a beautiful peace of tapestry, not a melting pot. Each thread is a culture of different colors. By itself, the thread is weak and easily broken, but when it's interwoven, it's beautiful and strong. That is America. Embrace your culture, because America is diversity .
But even better, he gave his Thanks to the Lord and everyday he says he counts his blessings.

This wasn't a Christian conference, but I'm so glad that so many prominent figures are giving their thanks to the Lord . These amazing people are part of an amazing culture and made by an amazing God.

I've been blessed by this experience .