Maya Lin is an American Architect that made one her biggest successes in here career while she was still attending undergraduate school at Yale University. Lin designed the memorial for Vietnam Veterans in Washington D.C. She won a contest that was made to help chose the design of the memorial. That was a truly amazing feat to accomplish and was able to do it at the age of 21. Lin has gone on to design various building for various universities all over the United States, and continues to be one of the more successful architects of our time.