Yesterday I won my first asylum hearing and successfully obtained asylum for someone who desperately needed it. It feels good knowing I essentially saved a life. I put two years into that project, and learned quite a bit along the way. Sometimes hard work pays off!

Kris @Alligator

Although I have many years of formal education, most of what I've learned has come from experimenting and trying to solve problems on my own. Once an idea for a project is set in my mind, it is all-consuming and one must learn everything possible about the subject on the way to the outcome. For learning is more than reading books and spoken word, it is hours of frustration, trial and error, and one sudden flash of insight when the world magically makes sense. It is during this moment when I am truely alive.