Another drawing proposes a satellite station atop each ski lift and a ski lodge at the base of a hill. Lin, who was born in Taiwan but came to the United States with her family when she was 7 and grew up in Miami, skied for the first time while at Cornell. Lin said she's no rebel, however, although she has learned to push herself. The architecture program makes you tough. You have to be very self-motivated to complete a final thesis.
Many students drop out along the way.
But there also might be just a hint of rebellion in Lin's determination to master a subject that is a 180-degree turn from what her Taiwanese parents imagined for her. They're completely lost about what I do. My dad keeps telling me he wants me to work for a firm with stock options. At Cornell Lin consistently made the dean's list, took part in the college's Cornell in Rome program one semester and interned during two summers with a commercial design group in San Francisco and with a New York City architect. N.J. The firm's partners invited her to interview and offered her a position, which she has accepted.