When I was in high school, I toured an ethanol plant. I remember walking through the facility thinking it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. Huge tanks. Pipes everywhere. Corn turning into fuel through chemistry and engineering. It felt like magic. That tour stuck...
Yesterday morning I listened to a sermon about mustard seeds. You know — the tiny little seeds that eventually become the biggest trees with giant branches. It sounded poetic in that Sunday-morning way, but it didn’t fully click until later, when I was staring at a...
When I was a student, then in labs, and then in industry, I kept running into the same problem: notebooks were either too “cute” to be useful, too flimsy to survive a backpack, or too generic to work for traceability and lab documentation. So I made my own. Now there...
For a long time, I thought my life in STEM would look linear. There’s an unspoken blueprint we absorb early: pick a major, get a job, climb upward. A tidy graph with a clean slope. That isn’t how it went. My career has looked more like a series of experiments — some...
Hi there! I hope everyone is having a great day. One of the most important things I’ve learned in the past five or so years about having a great day is how you structure the START of your day. If you hit snooze ten times and roll out of bed five minutes before you’re...
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