Even masters were once amateurs.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

...Entering Seoul Science High School, I met numerous prodigies, all in the spotlight of the administration. All of them glittered like morning stars, and I gazed at them with envy, sitting on an audience seat. Later, a chance to be in the spotlight came to me as well when I qualified to take the test to be a representative of Korea in International Biology Olympiad, thoroughly indulging myself in confidence...